Indigenous Family Formation

Biddle, Nicholas; Johnstone, Kim

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9279-0_10

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“…Several aspects of Indigenous family life contribute to larger household size. First, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people tend to start child bearing early, leading to higher overall fertility rates and larger size families than those of non-Indigenous Australians (N. Biddle and Johnstone, 2015). Second, Indigenous households are 2.8 times more likely than non-Indigenous households to be multiple family households (ABS, 2017).…”

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The consequences of household composition and household change for Indigenous health: evidence from eight waves of the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC)

Hewitt

Walter

2021

Health Sociology Review

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Households are important health contexts, providing social, emotional, financial and material support, but little is known about the role of household composition in the social etiology of Indigenous health. Our research is framed by an Indigenous standpoint, using 8 waves of data from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children.We investigated whether household composition and change in household composition were associated with the self-reported general health of Indigenous children and their mothers, adjusting for socioeconomic, household structure and social support factors.Our measure of household composition comprised 8 groups differentiating lone and couple parents, living with and without other children and adults. Study children in couple households with other children and adults were 16% less likely to have excellent health and mothers in these same households were 7% less likely to report excellent health than children and mothers in couple households. We find little evidence that mothers in lone parent households have poorer health than mothers in couple households, after adjustment for covariates. Change in household composition was positively associated with health for both children and mothers. The results caution against presuming a direct translatability of research findings from non-Indigenous to Indigenous Peoples.

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Section: Household Size and Healthmentioning

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The consequences of household composition and household change for Indigenous health: evidence from eight waves of the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC)

Hewitt

Walter

2021

Health Sociology Review

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“…With a TFR of 2.27 (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016), the Indigenous population also has higher fertility than the nonIndigenous, and therefore areas with a higher percentage of the population identifying as Indigenous could be expected to have higher fertility. However, there is some evidence that the relationship is not necessarily straightforward: for example, in the south and east of the country fertility patterns of the indigenous population are very similar to those of the non-Indigenous population (Biddle and Johnstone 2015).…”

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Modelling Variation in Fertility Rates Using Geographically Weighted Regression

Evans

Gray

2017

Spat Demogr

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Australia is one of the largest countries in the world, and also one of the most urbanised. At the national level it can be characterised as a country with low fertility and high income per capita. However, there are significant geographic inequalities between different areas of the country in terms of fertility rates as well as education levels, income and employment opportunities. In this paper, we use birth registration and Census data to explore the spatial variation of fertility in Australia and how it relates to compositional and contextual characteristics of places. Geographically weighted regression allows us to analyse the spatial relationships and identify the geographical variability in the fertility experience of Australian women. We find substantial variation with some areas having a total fertility rate well above or below the national average. Around metropolitan areas much of the variation can be explained by differences in the socio-economic composition of the local population. However in more rural or remote parts of the country, understanding the variation in fertility is more difficult.

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Doing Indigenous Family

Walter

2017

Indigenous Children Growing Up Strong

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Indigenous Family Formation

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The consequences of household composition and household change for Indigenous health: evidence from eight waves of the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC)

The consequences of household composition and household change for Indigenous health: evidence from eight waves of the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC)

Modelling Variation in Fertility Rates Using Geographically Weighted Regression

Doing Indigenous Family

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