TY  - BOOK
AU  - Biddle, Nicholas
AU  - Yap, Mandy
AB  - Across almost all standard indicators, the Indigenous population of Australia has worse outcomes than the non-Indigenous population. Despite the abundance of statistics and a plethora of government reports on Indigenous outcomes, there is very little information on how Indigenous disadvantage accumulates or is mitigated through time at the individual level. The research that is available highlights two key findings. Firstly, that Indigenous disadvantage starts from a very early age and widens over time. Secondly, that the timing of key life events including education attendance, marriage, childbirth and retirement occur on average at different ages for the Indigenous compared to the non-Indigenous population. To target policy interventions that will contribute to meeting the Council of Australian Governments’ (COAG) Closing the Gap targets, it is important to understand and acknowledge the differences between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous lifecourse in Australia, as well as the factors that lead to variation within the Indigenous population.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_458941
ID  - OAPEN ID: 458941
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 848010129
KW  - australia
KW  - social conditions
KW  - economic forecasting
KW  - social prediction
KW  - aboriginal australian
KW  - economic conditions
KW  - Child care
KW  - Dependent and independent variables
KW  - Indigenous Australians
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Introduced species
KW  - Life course approach
KW  - Probability
KW  - Single parent
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/53fb83d3-c8d9-495f-886c-91991fc1e4b7/458941.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33775
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2010
TI  - Demographic and Socioeconomic Outcomes Across the Indigenous Australian Lifecourse : Evidence from the 2006 Census
ER  - 
