Indigenous Women's Report Card - 2005
Chapters
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Leadership and Opportunity
- Representation in public authority employment
- State public sector staff by level
- Local government and employees by level
- University staff by level
- Representation in State Parliament
- Representation in Federal Parliament
- Representation on local government councils
- Representation on WA Government boards and committees
- Representation in Indigenous peak bodies and community organisations
- Apparent school retention rates
- Educational attainment (qualifications/schooling completed)
- Enrolments in vocational education and training (VET) courses
- Load completion rates for students enrolled in VET courses
- Enrolments in higher education
- Success rates for students enrolled in higher education courses
- Young women not participating in education or employment
- Proportion of women who own or are buying their own home
- Proportion of women living in overcrowded dwellings
- Proportion of women who have access to transport
- Proportion of women using computer and internet in home
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Work and Economic Independence
- Proportion of women by labour force status (employed, unemployed, not in the labour force)
- Unemployment rate for Indigenous women
- Proportion of employed women by number of hours worked
- Proportion of employed women in CDEP and non-CDEP employment
- Proportion of employed women by industry
- Proportion of employed women by occupation (skill level)
- Proportion of employed women with access to flexible working hours/days and holiday/sick leave entitlements
- Proportion of employed women entitled to leave for cultural responsibilites
- Proportion of employed women who are self-employed
- Participation rates of women in apprenticeships and traineeships by age group
- Proportion of female apprentices and trainees
- Proportion of women in low income households
- Proportion of women in higher income households
- Proportion of employed women by equivilised household income
- Main source of income (CDEP, Other wages/salaries, Pensions/allowances)
- Proportion of women who would be unable to raise $2,000 within a week for something important
- Average (mean) equivilised gross household income per week
- Crime and Justice
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Family Community and Culture
- Proportion of women who are primary carers
- Proportion of women by family type (couple/sole parent) and number of dependent children
- Proportion of women caring for children by hours of care per week/day
- Proportion of women caring for children by relationship to child
- Proportion of women caring for children from other households by whether paid or unpaid
- Labour force status/participation rate of female primary carers (of those needing help because of age or disability)
- Labour force status/participation rate of women with primary responsibility for children aged 12 years and under
- Access to formal child care by employment status
- Usage of formal child care in last four weeks by employment status
- Proportion involved in social activities in last three months
- Proportion participating in sport or physical recreation activities
- Proportion undertaking voluntary work
- Proportion able to get support in time of crisis from someone outside the household
- Proportion experiencing stressor(s) by type of stressor
- Proportion who had been removed, or had a close relative removed, from their natural family
- Proportion identifying with a clan, tribal or language group
- Proportion currently living in their homeland/traditional country
- Proportion attending cultural events in the last 12 months
- Proportion able to speak an Indigenous language
- Proportion whose main language spoken at home is an Indigenous language
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Safety
- Proportion who were a victim of physical or threatened violence in the last 12 months
- Deaths from assault
- Hospitalisations due to assault
- Perceptions of family violence
- Incidence of family violence
- Proportion perceiving assault as a problem in their community
- Proportion perceiving sexual assault as a problem in their community
- Proportion who experienced abuse or violent crime in the last 12 months
- Proportion who witnessed violence in the last 12 months
- Proportion who experienced discrimination and or racism in the last 12 months
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Mature Aged Women
- Proportion self-reporting reporting excellent or very good health
- Proportion with a disability or long-term health condition
- Proportion who perceive ageing as positive
- Proportion who are primary carers
- Proportion caring for children who are not their natural children
- The prevalence of elder abuse among women aged 45 years and older
- Proportion living in the lowest income group (quintile)
- Proportion with superannuation coverage
- Proportion reliant on government pensions/benefits
- Proportion employed in paid employment
- Proportion owning their own home (with and without mortgage)
- Proportion with access to motor vehicle(s)
- Proportion who can easily get to the places needed
- Proportion using a computer at home in the last 12 months
- Proportion accessing the internet at home in the last 12 months
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Health and Disability
- Life expectancy at birth
- Proportion of deaths by age group
- Age specific death rates
- Median age at death
- Leading causes of death, (number, proportion, age-standardised rate)
- Deaths from diabetes mellitus as a proportion of all deaths
- External causes of death as a proportion of all deaths
- Smoking
- Alcohol consumption
- Substance use
- Exercise level
- Nutrition (consumption of fruit and vegetables)
- Body mass index
- Proportion of women reporting excellent/very good health
- Proportion with a long-term health condition or disability
- Proportion with a profound/severe core activity restriction
- Proportion with a current mental health condition
- Experience with stressor(s) in previous 12 months
- Hospitalisation rates for internal self-harm
- Age-specific fertility rates (births to teenage mothers)
- Maternal health during pregnancy
- Incidence of sexually transmissable diseases (number, age-standardised rates for clamydia and gonorrhoea)
- Participation rate in cervical cancer screening (20-69 years as per AIHW target group)
- Participation rate in breast cancer screening (target 50-69 years)
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Crime and Justice
- Western Australian Indigenous women in Federal Parliament
- Women in State Parliament
- Women on local government councils
- Women in the judiciary and practicing law
- Female law students
- Women as Justices of the Peace
- Representation of women in WA Police Services
- Representation of women as prison officers
- Women's access to legal services
- Proportion of female prisoners who are Indigenous
- Annual rate of imprisonment (per 100,000 women aged 18 years and over)
- Proportion of prisoners with known prior imprisonment under sentence