Additional information on data quality is available in Appendix 3: Quality of
Indigenous Status Data in the 2006 Census.
Not exact matches
Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi committed to implementing several of the recommendations, including: releasing past and future Special Investigations Unit directors» reports that describe cases where no criminal charges were laid; disclosing to the public crucial information about investigations into deaths involving officers; and requiring watchdogs to collect demographic
data, including statistics on race, ethnicity and
indigenous status.
Describing Whop's work as «seminal», Ian Hammond, chair of the Steering Committee for the Renewal Implementation Program, assured delegates that legislation was being progressed to allow pathology forms to record
Indigenous status and send the
data to the national register.
Previously we used
data from deaths certificates (where the doctor recorded whether the person was Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) and Census population
data (where individuals self - identified) leading to biased estimates because information on
Indigenous status was obtained from different sources.
... a key policy question, that can still be addressed from cross-sectional examination of census
data, is whether the relative economic
status of
Indigenous people is likely to appear any better when the next census results are publicly available in 2002 and again in 2007.
For a detailed discussion of unknown
Indigenous status in the 2006 Census see Commentary: Interpreting The
Data in the ABS publication Population Distribution, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 2006 (cat.
9 Stephen Ralph cited that «there are significant gaps associated with the reliable capture of
data pertaining to
Indigenous status that may lead to an under - representation of the number of
Indigenous litigants in the courts» Casetrack system.
The primary aim of the linkage was to assess the consistency of the identification of
Indigenous status as reported in death registration and Census
data, and thereby provide input into the compilation of life tables and life expectancy estimates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Examine whether the Casetrack system can be enhanced to allow for the recording of
Indigenous status as «unknown» and that it be mandatory for the field of
Indigenous status to be completed in entering
data into Casetrack.
The first approach shows what life expectancy would have been if no adjustment was made for the underidentification of
Indigenous status in deaths registration
data.
basic demographic
data - such the number of
Indigenous and non-
Indigenous people, their age distribution, household size, income characteristics, employment
status and where they live;
Data collection on
Indigenous prisoner health
status is very poor, however, given the extensive evidence of
Indigenous health inequality, it is reasonable to assume that
Indigenous prisoners would experience «a health
status the same or probably worse than that of the general prisoner population».
[147] The ABS cautions that
data for Tasmania, however, should be interpreted with caution due to the low incidence of child protection workers recording
Indigenous status at the time of the substantiation: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Population Distribution, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians 2001, ABS cat no 4705.0 (2002) p 222.