Improved Indigenous population projections for policy and planning

Professor James Raymer is one of the investigators involved in this ARC Linkage project that recently received funding of $244,744.

Dr Nicholas Biddle, ANU, is the Principal Investigator. The other investigators are Dr Tom Wilson, The University of Queensland, Dr Andrew Taylor, Charles Darwin University and Dr Prem Thapa, Department of Families, Community Services, Housing and Indigenous Affairs.

The aim of this project is to create a flexible set of population projections of the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) population at a State/Territory, regional and community level. These projections will be designed to better inform current policy debates and resource allocation and also test the likely impact of different policy interventions and parameters. They will be based on qualitative and quantitative analysis carried out for this project that identify the processes involved in Indigenous identification; partnering of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people; births of children to Indigenous and non-Indigenous mothers; and internal migration.