Australian Bureau of Statistics 4713.0 - Population
Characteristics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Australians, 2006 Latest ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA
TIME) 04/05/2010 Final |Page tools: Print Page Print All RSS
Search this Product| EQUIVALISED HOUSEHOLD INCOME Between 2001
and 2006, mean equivalised gross household income for Indigenous
people rose by 9% (after adjustment for inflation using the
Consumer Price Index), which is the same level of growth
observed for non-Indigenous people over the same period. The
relative income disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous
people remained constant, compared with 2001. Overall, the mean
equivalised gross household income for Indigenous people is
approximately 62% of the corresponding figure for non-Indigenous
people. At a national level, Indigenous people counted in the
Census represented 2.4% of the population with a known
Indigenous status, however, Indigenous people made up 4.8% of
the people with a known Indigenous status in the lowest