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APPENDIX 2 INDIGENOUS VICTIMS OF CRIME, EXPLANATORY NOTES
5 Due to the constraints of small numbers, the output categories used in this publication are limited to:
POLICE PROCESSES 6 Victims of crime in the jurisdictions for which data are presented in Appendix 1 are asked the Standard Indigenous Question when providing an initial report or when they are interviewed. In certain situations, at the discretion of a Police Officer, the Standard Indigenous Question may not be asked of victims. For example, a Police Officer may consider a victim to be too traumatised, too young or immature to answer the question, or otherwise incapable of understanding or responding to the question. If the Standard Indigenous Question is not asked under these circumstances, a not-stated response is recorded. 7 Where individuals are not able to provide an answer for themselves, jurisdictions would accept a response where a next of kin/guardian provides the information. For victims who are not considered adults, a parent/guardian will often be required to be present while they are being interviewed. 8 In New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, individual Police Officers are responsible for directly entering details of an incident into the recording system. The Standard Indigenous Question field in crime recording systems is also linked to a specific incident. Therefore, a victim will have a separate Indigenous status response recorded for each individual incident. 9 New recruits entering the Police Force in each jurisdiction are trained in the reporting and recording requirements for Indigenous status. 10 Each jurisdiction reported that whenever new systems are implemented or significantly upgraded, Officers are trained in using the system to coincide with the release. KNOWN DATA QUALITY ISSUES 11 Data recorded as 'not stated' cannot currently be disaggregated any further to provide information about the reason for the unknown data in the Australian Capital Territory. Therefore it is not possible to differentiate between refusals to answer, where the question was not asked, or where people did not know the answer, for example. In the Australian Capital Territory, quality assurance is not pursued if a ‘not stated’ or ‘inadequately described’ response is received and signed-off by a supervising officer. 12 In New South Wales, it may be possible to differentiate between refusals to answer, where the question was not asked, or where people did not know the answer, for example. Quality assurance is not pursued if an 'unknown' or 'refused' response is received and signed-off by a supervising officer. 13 It is possible that the Torres Strait Islander component of Indigenous status data is slightly inflated, due to persons incorrectly identifying as such, when they are of other islander origin, such as Pacific Islander. This is thought to have little significant effect upon the final data. INDIGENOUS VICTIMISATION RATES 14 Rates for the Indigenous population in this publication are based on the low series projections for 30 June 2007 (Experimental Estimates and Projections, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 30 June 1991 to 30 June 2009 (cat. no. 3238.0). These projections are based on the 2001 Census of Population and Housing. New series of Indigenous population projections are scheduled for release in 2009 and will be based on the 2006 Census of Population and Housing. 15 The low series are one of two series of these projections that have been published for the years 2002 to 2009.
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