Target 17

Measures

• Number of First Nations people aged 15 and over who had accessed the internet at home in the last 12 months.


• Proportion (%) of First Nations people aged 15 and over who had accessed the internet at home in the last 12 months, by sex.

Available by

Sex: males, females, persons.

Data period

2022–23

Data source

ABS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey 2022–23 (ABS 2025).

Region types

Main structures: Australia, states and territories.

Region types

• Data have been suppressed if the denominator for the percentage was less than 100, due to concerns about the reliability of percentages based on small denominators.


• Data have been flagged as use with caution if the margin of error was between 10% and 15%.


• Data have been suppressed if the margin of error was above 15%, or where a margin of error could not be reliably calculated.

Notes

• Data are based on AIHW analysis of ABS microdata.


• The 2022-23 NATSIHS includes a sample of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were usual residents of private dwellings.


• Estimates for the ACT are not available separately and are included in Australian totals, due to a lower-than-expected number of households included in the survey.


• In 2022-23, personal use of the internet includes access through all device types (mobile phones, smart watches, laptops etc).


• Internet access questions in the 2022-23 NATSIHS differ from what was previously collected in the 2014-15 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSISS).


• Comparable non-Indigenous data on internet usage does not exist.


• Data values have been randomly adjusted using perturbation to avoid the release of confidential data. Discrepancies may occur between sums of the component items and totals.

Measures

Proportion of First Nations people aged 15 and over who had used the internet to access government services.

Available by

Sex: males, females, persons.

Data period

2022–23

Data source

ABS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey 2022–23 (ABS 2025).

Region types

• Data have been suppressed if the denominator for the percentage was less than 100, due to concerns about the reliability of percentages based on small denominators.


• Data have been flagged as use with caution if the margin of error was between 10% and 15%.


• Data have been suppressed if the margin of error was above 15%, or where a margin of error could not be reliably calculated.

Notes

Data are based on AIHW analysis of ABS microdata.