%T Trends in partnering and fertility among the Indigenous population
%A Danielle Venn
%A Heather Crawford


%I Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
%D 2019

%K Aboriginal people (Australia), %K Interpersonal relationships, %K Birth rate, %K Childbirth



%U https://apo.org.au/node/217071

%X This paper uses data from the Census of Population and Housing to examine trends in Indigenous partnering and fertility between 2006 and 2016. The proportion of Indigenous adults who are partnered (either married or living in a de facto relationship) fell during the period examined. There were particularly large declines in partnering among Indigenous people in their 20s, those with less than Year 12 education and the population living in remote areas. These decreases were large enough to negate increases in partnering rates resulting from increasing educational attainment.
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