Different aspects of disadvantage often seem to occur together - for example, poor education appears to be linked with poor employment outcomes, and both are linked with poor income. Using comparable data from the ABS 2004-05 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS) and the National Health Survey (NHS), the main Report identifies some aspects of disadvantage that tend to occur together. This analysis does not identify cause and effect (that is, it does not say that disadvantage in one area is the cause of another poor outcome).
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In 2004-05, Indigenous people were markedly disadvantaged when compared with non-Indigenous people against the three measured headline dimensions – education, labour force and income. Different patterns of disadvantage were observed according to age, sex and remoteness areas (figures 12.1.1–12.1.3).
Overcrowded housing is associated with most headline dimensions of disadvantage, including poor education and employment outcomes and low household and individual incomes (figure 12.3.3).
Health risk behaviours among Indigenous people are associated with many headline dimensions of disadvantage – daily smoking is associated with poor outcomes in education, employment and income (figure 12.3.1), and illicit drug use is associated with unemployment and poor outcomes in home ownership (figure 12.3.2).
Report Chapter 13: Measuring multiple disadvantage
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