Agency Contingency and Census Process : Observations of the 2006 Indigenous Enumeration Strategy in Remote Aboriginal Australia
The Indigenous Enumeration Strategy (IES) of the Australian National Census of Population and Housing has evolved over the years in response to the perceived'difference'of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations. Its defining characteristics are the use of locally recruited, mostly Ind...
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