Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth are engaged in employment or education.

By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth (15–24 years) who are in employment, education or training to 67%.

The proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth aged 15–24 years who are fully engaged in employment, education or training.

The measure is defined as:

Numerator – number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15–24 years who are engaged in full‑time work, full‑time study and/or full‑time training or a combination of work and study and training

Denominator – total number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the population aged 15–24 years old

and is presented as a percentage.

National Agreement on Closing the Gap July 2020

15 June 2023

Target

A high or increasing proportion is desirable.

Name: ABS Census of Population and Housing, Census Table Builder (Basic)

Frequency: Five‑yearly

Documentation (links): www.abs.gov.au/census

Provider name: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

Provider area: Census

2016

2021

2031

State and territory and Australia, by Indigenous status.

State and territory and Australia, by Indigenous status, by sex.

State and territory and Australia, by Indigenous status, by age.

State and territory and Australia, by Indigenous status, by remoteness areas.

State and territory and Australia, by Indigenous status, by Index of Relative Socio‑economic Disadvantage (IRSD) quintile.

State and territory and Australia, by Indigenous status, by disability status.

State and territory and Australia, by Indigenous status, by engagement category.

Numerator divided by Denominator multiplied by 100.

Counting rules

This data is for all Australian residents enumerated in the Census that reported having a usual residence in Australia.

Geographical variables are based on a person’s place of usual residence (on Census night).

Includes (both numerator and denominator)

• young people engaged full‑time in work or study and/or training, or in a combination of work and study and training (regardless of hours for each)
• Australian totals include all states and territories (including Other Territories).

Excludes (both numerator and denominator)

• people who were ‘at least partially engaged’ (engaged in either work or study but did not provide enough information to determine if they were fully or partially engaged)
• people whose engagement status could not be determined, was not stated or inadequately described
• people for whom Indigenous status was not stated. (Data on the number of people whose Indigenous status was not stated is provided for context.)

Disaggregations:

Sex refers to a person’s biological characteristics. The 2021 Census allowed all respondents to select from three response options for the sex question: male, female and non-binary sex. Where a respondent has provided a male or female response and a non-binary sex response, the male or female response was used to determine a binary sex variable. Otherwise, sex was derived by a statistical process using random allocation.

Remoteness area is classified according to the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) using SA1 as the building block. For people with incomplete/invalid or missing address information, the ABS imputes the place of usual residence. The non-response rate at the SA1 level was 4.4% in 2021. Remoteness area disaggregations exclude ‘Migratory – Offshore – Shipping’ and ‘No usual address’. Please see the How to interpret the data page for more information.

Socio‑economic status of the locality is classified according to the Socio‑Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA): Index of Relative Socio‑economic Disadvantage (IRSD), using SA1 as the building block. For people with incomplete/invalid or missing address information, the ABS will impute the place of usual residence. The data is reported by IRSD quintile, which is determined at the Australian level and excludes persons with unknown or unavailable SEIFA score. Some individual geographic areas were excluded from SEIFA for various reasons, such as low population or high non‑response to certain Census questions. Please see the How to interpret the data page for more information.

Disability is classified according to core activity need for assistance. The data is only available for people with a profound or severe core activity limitation. Disability data sourced from the Census is based on four questions to identify need for assistance and may not be fully comparable with data from other sources. See www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/4431.0.55.002 for more information. (Data for people whose ‘need for assistance with core activities’ was not stated is provided for context.)

Age is derived from a person’s date of birth. If date of birth is not stated, an age value is imputed by the ABS.

Engagement category describes whether a person was fully engaged through employment, study (including training) or a combination of the two activities. Total includes part‑time students that were employed but away from work or hours of work were not stated, and students where the Institution was stated but student status was not stated that were working part‑time, employed but away from work or hours of work were not stated.

Extraction

Census Table Builder (Basic) – Employment, Income and Education: INGP X EETP (STUP X LFSP/HRSP prior to 2016) X Main ASGS (UR) X AGE5P

[Disaggregations: X SEX, X REMOTE (UR), X IRSD, X ASSNP, X EETP]

All data values have been randomly adjusted using perturbation to avoid the release of confidential data. Proportions/rates calculated for small populations should be used with caution.

Additional disaggregations required for future reporting:

• other geographic categories, where available.