Strong economic participation and development of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.

By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 25–64 who are employed to 62%.

Employment by occupation

The measure is defined as:

Numerator – number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 25–64 years who are employed, by occupation

Denominator – total number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the population aged 25–64 years

and is presented as a percentage.

National Agreement on Closing the Gap July 2020

8 March 2023

Contextual information

A high or increasing proportion employed in an occupation is desirable, if not accompanied by equivalent decreases in other occupation types.

Name: ABS Census of Population and Housing, Census Table Builder (Basic)

Frequency: Five-yearly

Documentation (links): www.abs.gov.au/census

Provider name: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Provider area: Census

2016

2021

State and territory and Australia, by Indigenous status.

Numerator divided by Denominator multiplied by 100.

Counting rules

The data is for all Australian residents enumerated in the Census that reported having a usual residence in Australia.

Geographical variables are based on a person’s place of usual residence.

Occupation variables are coded using the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations, 2013, Version 1.2 (cat. no. 1220.0) (ANZSCO) (at the major, one‑digit, level). The occupation code assigned to a response is based on the occupation title and tasks of the main job held during the week prior to Census night.

Includes (both numerator and denominator):

• people who were employed full‑time (worked 35 hours or more), part‑time, or who were employed but were away from work (did not work any hours in the week prior to Census night or did not state their number of hours worked)
• Australian total includes Other Territories
• people for whom occupation was ‘inadequately described’ or ‘not stated’.

Excludes (both numerator and denominator):

• people for whom labour force status was ‘not stated’ or unknown or inadequately described
• overseas visitors
• people for whom Indigenous status was not stated.

Extraction

Census Table Builder (Basic) – Employment, Income and Education: INGP X Main ASGS (UR) X LFSP X AGE5P X OCCP (one‑digit level)

• Data values have been randomly adjusted using perturbation to avoid the release of confidential data.

Future reporting will seek to include the following additional disaggregations:

• remoteness areas
• socio‑economic status of the locality
• disability status
• gender
• age group
• level of education
• type of employment – part‑time versus full‑time.