Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Foreword to workshop proceedings
    • Abbreviations
    • Workshop resolutions
  • Body section
    • Chapter 1 Opening and historical overview
      • Introduction to the Indigenous identification workshop - Sol Bellear
      • Presentation to the Indigenous identification workshop - Richard Madden
      • An historical overview of the development of Indigenous health statistics - Neil Thomson
    • Chapter 2 Reports from State and Territory Registrars General
      • New South Wales - Trevor Stacey
      • Victoria - Ian Bowler
      • Queensland - Desmond Tanner
      • South Australia - Kim Potoczky
      • Western Australia - Don Stockins
      • Tasmania - John Jameson
      • Northern Territory - Phillip Timney
      • Australian Capital Territory - Andrew Taylor
    • Chapter 3 Reports from State and Territory Health Departments
      • New South Wales - Greg Curry
      • Victoria - Irene Kearsey
      • Queensland - Sandra Martyn
      • South Australia - John O'Brian
      • Western Australia - Peta Williams
      • Tasmania - Marita Hargraves
      • Northern Territory - John Condon
      • Australian Capital Territory - Norma Briscoe
    • Chapter 4 Data collection issues
      • Indigenous people in government statistics - current ABS standard - Tony Barnes, Tammy White and
      • Kate Ross
      • The 3R's: lessons learned down south about promoting good practice in recording Aboriginality of
      • persons admitted to hospital - Sarah Berg
      • Presentation from the Australian Funeral Directors Association - Graham Crawley
      • Presentation from the Australian Medical Association - Steve Larkin
    • Chapter 5 Assessing completeness and quality of identification
      • Assessing the completeness and quality of Indigenous identification in administrative data collections - Barbara Gray and Joan Cunningham
      • Measuring the coverage of Indigenous births and deaths registrations - Tim Carlton
      • Indigenous identification in maternal and child health research in Western Australia - Anne Read and Carol Garfield
      • Problems in the recording of Indigenous identity on hospital records at selected hospitals in Brisbane and Cairns - Cindy Shannon
      • How midwives identify women as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders - Helen Robertson, Judith Lumley and Sarah Berg
      • Collection of a statistical indicator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin on birth and death registration forms - The recent experience of Queensland - Malcolm Greig
  • End matter
    • Appendix 1 - Workshop agenda
    • Appendix 2 - Workshop participants