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released: 26 Jun 2006

Good quality data on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are needed to assess the effectiveness of programs and interventions, and to evaluate policies that are designed to improve the status of, and service delivery to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This paper is an addendum to 'The health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2005' and has been jointly prepared by The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

ISBN 978 1 74024 568 5; Cat. no. IHW 15; 60pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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Recent developments in the collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and welfare statistics 2005


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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (162K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • Abbreviations
    • Preface
    • Introduction
  • Sections
    1. Recent national strategic information initiatives and future plans (164K PDF)
      • National Health Information Agreement
      • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Information Plan
      • National Housing Data Agreement
      • Agreement on National Indigenous Housing Information
      • National Community Services Information Agreement
    2. Recent and forthcoming statistical reports
      • The health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
      • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS)
      • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS)
      • National Health Survey: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander results
      • Population characteristics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
      • Population distribution, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
      • Experimental estimates and projections, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
      • Expenditures on health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
      • National summary of the jurisdictional reports against the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance indicators
      • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework (HPF)
      • Data quality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identification: seven community services data collections
      • Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage: key indicators
      • Report on government services: Indigenous compendium
      • Australia's health
      • Improving the quality of Indigenous identification in hospital separations data
      • Family violence among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
      • Drug use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: an assessment of data sources
      • Indigenous disability data inventory
      • Indigenous housing indicators
      • Indigenous housing needs - a multi-measure needs model
      • Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement national data reports: State Owned and Managed Indigenous Housing (SOMIH)
      • Housing and infrastructure in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Australia
      • Labour force characteristics of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, experimental estimates from the Labour Force Survey
    3. Identification and population estimation (240K PDF)
      • Identifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
      • Estimating the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population
    4. Quality and availability of data
      • Introduction Census of Population and Housing
      • Indigenous survey program and other surveys
      • Administrative data
  • End matter (160K PDF)
    • Appendix 1: Discrete Indigenous communities, by remoteness structure
    • Appendix 2: Estimates and projections of the Indigenous population, 1991 to 2009
    • Appendix 3: Experimental Indigenous estimated resident population, 30 June 2001
    • References

Recommended citation

ABS & AIHW 2006. Recent developments in the collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and welfare statistics 2005. Cat. no. IHW 15. Canberra: AIHW.