Data politics and Indigenous representation in Australian statistics

Walter, Maggie

doi:10.22459/caepr38.11.2016.05

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“…That the “majority of participants had moderate to extreme barriers to employment as measured by the JSCI” was described by PM&C as a “cause of joblessness” in remote communities, even though living in a remote community was, itself, a factor in elevating the JSCI score (PM&C , p. 4). In this way, Indigeneity and residence in Indigenous communities became markers of both group and individual disadvantage and deficiency, justifying additional and more intensive government intervention, at the same time that individual barriers to participation were overlooked (Henman , ch10, Walter ).…”

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Seeing people in the computer: The role of information technology in remote employment services

Fowkes

2019

Aust J Social Issues

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Information technologies have been important in the emergence of new forms of control and surveillance of welfare recipients and of those who administer labour market programmes. These technologies have often appeared at the margins of accounts of welfare reform, for example as means of increasing the efficiency or consistency of services, or as constraining frontline discretion. Henman has argued, however, that information technologies need to be analysed not just as administrative tools, but as “non‐human actors,” shaping policy development and implementation in ways beyond the intentions of their human creators (Henman, Governing Electronically: E‐government and the Reconfiguration of Public Administration, Policy and Power, Palgrave MacMillan). This paper explores the way that the use of government information systems has shaped employment services in remote Australia where over 80 per cent of those included are Indigenous people. The article describes how the production and use of administrative data within employment services have supported and extended the framing of Indigenous people in remote communities as non‐compliant and as needing external direction.

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Seeing people in the computer: The role of information technology in remote employment services

Fowkes

2019

Aust J Social Issues

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“…Walter (2016) p 80 challenge researchers to reverse the "analytical lens to generate data conceptualized through an Indigenous methodological framework. " By changing the way we re-port and re-present data, we seek to challenge the "deficit data/problematic people" and reframe the data to enable new ways of understanding Indigenous health and well-being (Lovett and Walter, 2016;Walter, 2016).…”

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Measuring Resilience and Risk Factors for the Psychosocial Well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Boarding School Students: Pilot Baseline Study Results

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Education provides a key pathway to economic opportunities, health, and well-being. Yet, limited or no locally available secondary schooling in remote Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities requires more than 500 Indigenous students to transition to boarding schools. We report baseline quantitative data from the pilot phase (2016) of a 5-year study to explore a multicomponent mentoring approach to increase resilience and well-being for these students. Materials and methods: An interrupted time series design is being applied to evaluate levels of change in Indigenous students' resilience and well-being. Surveys were collaboratively developed, with questions adapted from the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28), Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K5), and questions which identified upstream risk factors for self-harm. They were completed by 94 students from five randomly selected schools (2 primary and 3 secondary) and one remote community. results: Pre-transition, most primary school students reported high levels of resilience, but only a third reported moderate-high levels of psychological well-being. Secondary students attending a boarding school reported lower scores on resilience and psychosocial well-being measures. Students who transitioned back to community after being from boarding school reported a lower sense of connection to peers and family, and they reported even lower resilience and psychosocial well-being scores. learning outcomes: Students have many strengths and can be adaptable, but their levels of resilience and psychosocial well-being are affected by the schooling transitions they are required to navigate. The findings are informing the development of intervention strategies to enhance student resilience and well-being.

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“…• Inconsistent, inaccurate, and irrelevant data for Indigenous peoples; • External control and ownership of data; • Community mistrust of data resulting from exploitative research and policies; • Lack of external support for data infrastructure and capability; and, • Data that describe Indigenous peoples and lifeways through a deficit lens (Rodriguez-Lonebear 2016, Rainie et al 2017c, Kukutai and Taylor 2016, Walter 2016.…”

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Indigenous Data Governance: Strategies from United States Native Nations

Carroll

Rodriguez-Lonebear

Martinez

2019

CODATA

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Data have become the new global currency, and a powerful force in making decisions and wielding power. As the world engages with open data, big data reuse, and data linkage, what do data-driven futures look like for communities plagued by data inequities? Indigenous data stakeholders and non-Indigenous allies have explored this question over the last three years in a series of meetings through the Research Data Alliance (RDA). Drawing on RDA and other gatherings, and a systematic scan of literature and practice, we consider possible answers to this question in the context of Indigenous peoples vis-á-vis two emerging concepts: IndigenousdatasovereigntyandIndigenousdatagovernance.Specifically,wefocusonthe

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Data politics and Indigenous representation in Australian statistics

Cited by 74 publications

References 13 publications

Seeing people in the computer: The role of information technology in remote employment services

Seeing people in the computer: The role of information technology in remote employment services

Measuring Resilience and Risk Factors for the Psychosocial Well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Boarding School Students: Pilot Baseline Study Results

Indigenous Data Governance: Strategies from United States Native Nations

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