Figure 2

Unemployment rate gap — Persons aged 25-29 years. The percentage point gap between the proportion of Indigenous and non-Indigenous persons aged 25–29 years who were recorded as unemployed on the census. A gap of zero equates to parity. Note that for this period Australia had in place a program whereby Indigenous persons could work for unemployment benefits (Community Development Employment Projects – CDEP), and doing so has meant being recorded as “employed” on official labor force statistics, reducing Indigenous unemployment and potentially distorting the true gap [16].