OTHER SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS
OTHER SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS
In 2006, when compared with Indigenous employees, self-employed Indigenous people were:
- more likely to own their own home (fully owned or being purchased), across all age groups (68% compared with 40% overall);
- less likely to speak an Australian Indigenous language at home (3% compared with 12%);
- more likely to be married, across all age groups (73% compared with 49% overall); and
- more likely to have spent five hours or more on domestic work in the week before the Census (54% compared with 46%).
Selected employment types by Indigenous status and other selected characteristics(a) |
|
 | Indigenous | Non-Indigenous |
| Selected characteristics | Self-employed | Employees | Self-employed | Employees |
|
| Home owner(b) (%) | 68.2 | 39.9 | 83.9 | 72.7 |
| Speaks an Australian Indigenous language at home (%) | 3.4 | 11.8 | - | - |
| Married(c) (%) | 72.7 | 49.3 | 82.0 | 59.9 |
| Five hours or more of unpaid domestic work(d) (%) | 53.7 | 45.7 | 53.6 | 42.2 |
| Total persons (no.) | 6 599 | 112 000 | 1 387 075 | 7 102 086 |
|
| - nil or rounded to zero (including null cells) |
| (a) Not stated responses have been excluded when calculating proportions. |
| (b) Persons in homes that were owned or being purchased by a household member. |
| (c) Comprises registered marriage and de facto marriage. |
| (d) In the week prior to the Census. |
| Source: 2006 Census of Population and Housing |
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