Agency, contingency and census process : observations of the 2006 Indigenous enumeration strategy in remote Aboriginal Australia / Frances Morphy, editor.
Material type: TextSeries: Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no. 28.Publisher: Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU E Press, 2007Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 175 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781921313592
- 1921313595
- Aboriginal Australians -- Census
- Aboriginal Australians -- Population -- Statistics
- Census
- Australia -- Census, 2006
- Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
- Sociology and anthropology
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research
- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians -- Population
- Census
- Australia
- 2006
- population
- statistics
- aboriginal australians
- 306.0899915 22
- 305.89915 22
- DU124.C43
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Producing powerful numbers -- Preparing for the 2006 enumeration at the Darwin Census Management Unit -- A vast improvement: the 2006 enumeration in the Alice Springs town camps -- Mobility and its consequences: the 2006 enumeration in the north-east Arnhem Land region -- Whose census? Institutional constraints on the Indigenous Enumeration Strategy at Wadeye -- What sort of town is Fitzroy Crossing? Logistical and boundary problems of the 2006 enumeration in the southern Kimberley -- After the count and after the fact: at the Darwin Census Management Unit -- The transformation of input into output: at the Melbourne Data Processing Centre -- Accommodating agency and contingency: towards an extended strategy for engagement -- Appendix A. The 2006 Interviewer Household Form -- Appendix B. Commentary on the 2006 Interviewer Household Form.
"This study of the [Indigenous Enumeration Strategy] 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"--Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-175).
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