Target 8

Measures

• Number of First Nations Australians aged 25–64 who are employed, by sex, age group and over time.


• Proportion (%) of First Nations Australians aged 25–64 who are employed, by sex, age group and over time.


• Proportion (%) of non-Indigenous Australians aged 25–64 who are employed, over time.

Available by

• Sex: males, females, persons.


• Age group: 25–34, 35–44, 45–54, 55–64.


• Remoteness Area (AUS, STE only): Major cities, Inner regional, Outer regional, Remote, Very remote.


• Remoteness Area (IREG only): Major cities, Inner and Outer regional, Remote and Very remote.


• Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) (AUS only): quintiles from most disadvantaged to least disadvantaged.

Data periods

• Census night (10 August) 2021.


• Time trend data (Census nights): (10 August) 2021, (9 August) 2016, (9 August) 2011, (8 August) 2006.

Data sources

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Census of Population and Housing 2021, 2016, 2011 and 2006 (ABS 2022, 2021).

Region types

• Main structures: Australia, States and Territories, Statistical Areas Level 4 (SA4), Statistical Areas Level 3 (SA3).


• Indigenous structures: Indigenous Regions (IREG).

Suppression

• 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 suppressed if responses to the relevant data item(s) was not stated for >50% of the relevant population, due to relatively high exposure to potential bias.


• Data have been flagged as interpret with caution if responses to the relevant data item(s) was not stated for 25% –50% of the relevant population, due to relatively high exposure to potential bias.

Notes

• Geography based on place of usual residence.


• People who were employed includes people who were employed full-time (worked 35 hours or more), part-time, or who were employed but were away from work (did not work any hours in the week prior to Census night or did not state their number of hours worked).


• Denominator for the proportions is based on total number of people in the relevant population, including those not in the workforce. Proportions therefore differ from the employment rate as published elsewhere.


• Data excludes people for whom Indigenous status was not stated.


• Data excludes people for whom labour force status was not stated on inadequately described.


• Data for 2021 was analysed by the AIHW using ABS TableBuilder. Data for 2016, 2011 and 2006 was sourced from a custom data request provided by the ABS (ABS 2021).


• Data have been randomly adjusted by the ABS to protect confidentiality. No reliance should be placed on small numbers.


• Remoteness Areas are defined by the Australian Statistical Geographical Standard (ASGS) and based on the Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia which uses the road distance to goods and services (such as general practitioners, hospitals and specialist care) to measure relative accessibility of regions around Australia (ABS 2023f).


• IRSD quintile analysis based on ABS IRSD 2021 which focuses on relative socio-economic disadvantage, using SA1 as the building block. Data are reported by IRSD quintile that are determined at the Australian level and exclude children with unknown or unavailable SEIFA score (ABS 2023i).