Agency, Contingency and Census Process: Observations of the 2006 Indigenous Enumeration Strategy in remote Aboriginal Australia
In: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) v.28
Agency, contingency and census process -- Contents -- Notes on the contributors -- Frances Morphy -- Will Sanders -- John Taylor -- Kathryn Thorburn -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Producing powerful numbers -- The 2006 research project -- Background -- Aims of the 2006 research project -- The Indigenous Enumeration Strategy in 2006: structures and processes -- 2. Preparing for the 2006 enumeration at the Darwin Census Management Unit -- Introduction -- The sociopolitical context of the census -- The Community Housing and Infrastructure Needs Survey and the census -- The Discrete Indigenous Communities Database -- The training of the Census Field Officers for the census -- The value of local knowledge -- Imparting information: instruction and practical application -- Persons Temporarily Absent -- 9.7.3. Absent People -- 9.7.4. Vacant dwellings -- Counting an unoccupied dwelling -- Counting an occupied dwelling where no one is home -- Logistics -- Conclusion -- 3. A vast improvement: the 2006 enumeration in the Alice Springs town camps -- Introduction -- 2001 remembered and developments since -- Collecting in 2006 -- Reasons for improvement -- Remaining issues -- Tangentyere's list -- Conclusion -- 4. Mobility and its consequences: the 2006 enumeration in the north-east Arnhem Land region -- Introduction -- Localities -- Funerals: a major cause of mobility -- The count, phase one: 6 July to 3 August -- The burdens of literacy -- Case one -- Case two -- The count, phase two: 3-7 August -- Problems of definition: 'usual resident' and 'visitor' -- Case three -- Case four -- The wider political context -- The count, phase three: 8-14 August -- A Darwin interlude -- The count, phase four: 20 September -- The role of local organisations: a missed opportunity