Towards a gender-related index for Indigenous Australians

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31 March 2009There has been extensive research into the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous outcomes but very little of this has adopted a gender perspective. Using 2006 Census data, Yap and Biddle explore the development of a similar gender-related index as a tool to enable a relative ranking of the performance of Indigenous males and females at the regional level across a set of socioeconomic outcomes at the regional level.

Publication typeReport
Publisher TypeAcademic research centre, APO Member
CoverageAustralia
CopyrightCentre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Permanent URLhttp://apo.org.au/node/4483
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