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Unemployment
The unemployment rate for Indigenous people was 16% compared to 5% for non-Indigenous people according to the 2006 Census. This compares to unemployment rates at the time of the 2001 Census of 20% and 7% for Indigenous and non-Indigenous persons respectively.
Indigenous men and women had similar unemployment rates (15.8% and 15.4% respectively), as did non-Indigenous men and women (5.0% and 5.1% respectively).
Unemployment rates were highest in the 15-17 year age range for all groups - Indigenous and non-Indigenous and both males and females. The unemployment rates decreased with increasing age, again for all groups.
However the Indigenous unemployment rate was at least twice the non-Indigenous unemployment rate across all age groups.
Unemployment Rate (a) by Indigenous status by sex and age group, 2006
 | Age Group (Years) |
15–17 | 18–24 | 25–34 | 35–44 | 45–54 | 55–64 | Total |
| Male | Indigenous | % | 28.2 | 20.8 | 15.9 | 13.6 | 9.7 | 8.5 | 15.8 |
| Non-Indigenous | % | 14.3 | 9.6 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 4.4 | 5.0 |
| Female | Indigenous | % | 27.2 | 20.9 | 15.6 | 13.3 | 9.7 | 7.5 | 15.4 |
| Non-Indigenous | % | 12.7 | 8.5 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 5.1 |
| Persons | Indigenous | % | 27.7 | 20.8 | 15.8 | 13.5 | 9.7 | 8.1 | 15.6 |
| Non-Indigenous | % | 13.5 | 9.1 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 5.1 |
(a) Persons 15 years and over.
Source: Population Characteristics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, Australia, 2006 (cat. no. 4713.0). |
Unemployment Rate (a) by Indigenous status by sex and age group, 2006
(a) Persons 15 years and over.
Source: Population Characteristics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, Australia, 2006 (cat. no. 4713.0) |
Further Information: See Population Characteristics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, Australia, 2006 (cat. no. 4713.0).
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This page last updated 1 April 2010 | 
