Assessing the Evidence on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: A Focus on the 2002 NATSISSBoyd Hunter Presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the CAEPR conference on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: Assessing Recent Evidence, held at The Australian National University in August 2005. Presents the latest evidence on Indigenous economic and social status, and family and community life, and discusses its implications for government policy. Analyses the 2002 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS) outputs and issues about how to interpret the data and offers some assessment of changes in Indigenous social conditions over time, examining how Indigenous people fared vis-à-vis other Australians in other statistical collections. |
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2002 NATSISS data Aboriginal and Torres activities aged 15 Altman analysis asked ATSIC CAEPR Canberra CDEP scheme census cent community rental compared cultural CURF Customised cross-tabulations data collection digital divide disability economic employment estimates factors figures Geoff Scott health status housing tenure human rights Hunter identify important income Indigenous and non-Indigenous Indigenous Australians Indigenous communities Indigenous disadvantage Indigenous households Indigenous language Indigenous population issues Kinfu labour force status labour market Larissa Behrendt last 12 months living mainstream measure Mick Dodson mobility native title NATSIS NCAs NDSHS non-Indigenous population non-private dwellings non-remote areas non-sampling error non-school qualification Northern Territory organisations participation person poverty programs Queensland questionnaire questions RADL regional remote and non-remote remote areas respondents sample sampling error social Source Table tenure Torres Strait Islander transport variables vehicles
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Page 303 - Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to take steps, individually and through international assistance and co-operation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of its available resources, with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of the rights recognized in the present Covenant by all appropriate means, including particularly the adoption of legislative measures.
Page 2 - In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted.]}: CHAPTER VIII.
Page 300 - Goals to be reached by the year 2015: • eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; • achieve universal primary education; • promote gender equality and empower women; • reduce child mortality; • improve maternal health; • combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; • ensure environmental sustainability; • develop a global partnership for development.
Page 300 - Accordingly, we will not enjoy development without security, we will not enjoy security without development, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights. Unless all these causes are advanced, none will succeed.
Page 303 - ... [W]hile the full realization of the relevant rights may be achieved progressively, steps towards that goal must be taken within a reasonably short time after the Covenant's entry' into force for the States concerned. Such steps should be deliberate, concrete and targeted as clearly as possible towards meeting the obligations recognized in the Covenant.
Page 12 - ABS to conduct a special national survey as outlined in recommendation 49 in the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (Commonwealth of Australia 1991).
Page 5 - Australian society, and also to other 'ethnic' groups, whether defined on the basis of race, nationality, birthplace, language or religion. They probably have the highest growth rate, the highest birth rate, the highest death rate, the worst health and housing, and the lowest educational, occupational, economic, social and legal status of any identifiable...
Page 153 - Behrendt is Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies and Director of the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology Sydney and Director of Ngiya, the National Institute of Indigenous Law, Policy and Practice.
Page xvi - It should be noted that the views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Rolls-Royce pic.
Page 46 - ... example, the errors are probably relatively small and will not affect most conclusions drawn from the survey, or that the errors may be fairly large and inferences are to be made with caution.