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dc.contributor.authorCooke, M.
dc.contributor.authorMitrou, F.
dc.contributor.authorLawrence, David
dc.contributor.authorGuimond, E.
dc.contributor.authorBeavon, D.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T15:08:39Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T15:08:39Z
dc.date.created2008-11-12T23:36:16Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationCooke, Martin and Mitrou, Francis and Lawrence, David and Guimond, Eric and Beavon, Dan. 2007. Aboriginal Well-being in Four Countries: An Application of the UNDP's Human Development Index to Aboriginal Peoples in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. in White, Jerry P. and Beavon, Dan and Spence, Nicholas (ed) Aboriginal Well-Being: Canada's Continuing Challenge, pp 87-105. Canada: Thompson Books.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43597
dc.description.abstract

An adaptation of the UNDP’s Human Development Index is used to compare the wellbeing of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States between 1991 and 2001. Using Census education and income measures, and official estimates of life expectancy, we find that despite improvements in the overall well-being of Aboriginal populations, disparities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people widened in some cases. Aboriginal people in most of these countries fell behind in educational attainment, compared to non-Aboriginal populations. Incomes improved over the entire period, but fell in most of these countries between 1991 and 1996. Overall, Aboriginal populations in Australia and New Zealand had lower scores than in Canada and the U.S. However, whereas the Maori scores improved considerably between 1991 and 2001, those of the Australian Aboriginal population did not. American Indians and Alaska natives had the highest overall development scores, and smallest gaps between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people were found in the U.S.

dc.publisherThompson Books
dc.relation.urihttp://www.thompsonbooks.com/aboriginal_studies/
dc.titleAboriginal Well-being in Four Countries: An Application of the UNDP's Human Development Index to Aboriginal Peoples in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States
dc.typeBook Chapter
dcterms.source.startPage87
dcterms.source.endPage105
dcterms.source.titleABORIGINAL WELL-BEING Canada's Continuing Challenge
dcterms.source.placeCanada
dcterms.source.chapter10
curtin.departmentCentre for Developmental Health (Curtin Research Centre)
curtin.identifierEPR-2692
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyCentre for Developmental Health


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