Experimental estimates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians

Experimental estimates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 2006
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population has reached 517,000 or 2.5% of the total Australian population. The figures in this report are final estimates of the Indigenous population as at 30 June 2006. Posted 26-08-2008

Locations of indigenous population change

Locations of indigenous population change: what can we say?

John Taylor and Nicholas Biddle / Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Posted: 21-06-2008

John Taylor and Nicholas Biddle have modelled the contribution of net migration to small area population change to address the question of how to be sure that we are measuring the same population over time. This research uses a non-jurisdictional typology of Indigenous settlement reflective of different residential arrangements, and the results have implications for the analysis of change in population characteristics over time.

Population characteristics

Population characteristics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 2006
Australian Bureau of Statistics
There have been improvements across many areas for Indigenous people, including a fall in unemployment, according to an analysis of 2006 Census data by the ABS. However, there is much catching up still to occur, when compared with the non-Indigenous population. Posted 22-04-2008