LEADER 04380 am 22005053u 450 001 9910141786003321 005 20230621135323.0 010 $a1-921313-58-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000409919 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000764435 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11513203 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000764435 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10771629 035 $a(PQKB)10531258 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4816259 035 $a(WaSeSS)Ind00043651 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000409919 100 $a20170316h20072007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAgency, contingency and census process $eobservations of the 2006 Indigenous enumeration strategy in remote Aboriginal Australia /$fFrances Morphy (editor) 210 1$aCanberra, Australia :$cANU E Press,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (192 pages) $cillustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s) 225 0 $aCentre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research 225 0 $aResearch Monograph ;$vNumber 28 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$aPrint version: 9781921313585 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aThe Indigenous Enumeration Strategy (IES) of the Australian National Census of Population and Housing has evolved over the years in response to the perceived 'difference' of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations. Its defining characteristics are the use of locally recruited, mostly Indigenous collector interviewers, and the administration of a modified collection instrument in discrete Indigenous communities, mostly in remote Australia. The research reported here is unique. The authors, with the assistance of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, were able to follow the workings of the IES in the 2006 Census from the design of the collection instrument to the training of temporary census field staff at the Northern Territory's Census Management Unit in Darwin, to the enumeration in four remote locations, through to the processing stage at the Data Processing Centre in Melbourne. This allowed the tracking of data from collection to processing, and an assessment of the effects of information flows on the quality of the data, both as input and output. This study of the enumeration involved four very different locations: a group of small outstation communities (Arnhem Land), a large Aboriginal township (Wadeye), an 'open' town with a majority Aboriginal population (Fitzroy Crossing), and the minority Aboriginal population of a major regional centre (Alice Springs). A comparison between these contexts reveals differences that reflect the diversity of remote Aboriginal Australia, but also commonalities that exert a powerful influence on the effectiveness of the IES, in particular very high levels of short-term mobility. The selection of sites also allowed a comparison between the enumeration process in the Northern Territory, where a time-extended rolling count was explicitly planned for, and Western Australia, where a modified form of the standard count had been envisaged. The findings suggest that the IES has reached a point in its development where the injection of ever-increasing resources into essentially the same generic set and structure of activities may be producing diminishing returns. There is a need for a new kind of engagement between the Australian Bureau of Statistics and local government and Indigenous community-sector organisations in remote Australia. The agency and local knowledge of Indigenous people could be harnessed more effectively through an ongoing relationship with such organisations, to better address the complex contingencies confronting the census process in remote Indigenous Australia. 410 0$aResearch monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ;$v28. 606 $aAboriginal Australians$xPopulation$vStatistics 607 $aAustralia$xCensus, 2006 615 0$aAboriginal Australians$xPopulation 676 $a305.89915 702 $aMorphy$b Frances 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910141786003321 996 $aAgency, contingency and census process$92194711 997 $aUNINA