National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 21b-Employment to population ratio, for the working age population (15-64 years) (Survey Data), 2011
Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:
Indicator
Indicator type:
Indicator
Short name:
PI 21b-Employment to population ratio, for the working age population (15-64 years) (Survey Data), 2011
METeOR identifier:
425795
Registration status:
Indigenous, Archived 01/07/2012
Description:
Proportion of the working aged population employed.
Rationale:
Participation in employment has important consequences for living standards, social and emotional wellbeing and participation in the community. This is a key measure of the target to halve the gap in Indigenous employment outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a decade.
Crude rates are calculated, including relative standard errors and confidence intervals.
Rate ratios and rate differences are calculated for Indigenous:non-Indigenous.
Presentation: per 100 persons (percentage).
Computation:
100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator).
Numerator:
Number of people aged 15–64 years employed.
Numerator data elements:
Denominator:
Total population of people aged 15–64 years
Denominator data elements:
Disaggregation:
Disaggregation: National and state/territory by Indigenous status.
Disaggregation data elements:
Comments:
Most recent data available for 2011 CRC report: - Main data collection: 2008 NATSISS (Indigenous) and 2008 SEW (non-Indigenous) - Supplementary data collection: 2006 Census
The SEW does not include people living in very remote areas which may affect the comparability of results.
Baseline year for this indicator is 2008; target year is 2018.
