Implementation of SIC 2007 for the Vacancy Survey
SUMMARYThe article reports on the work to publish the Vacancy Survey on Standard Industrial Classification 2007 (SIC 2007). The main developments are:
changes to the survey design have led to changes in both the industrial groupings and employment size bands used for samplingcreation of historical series on a consistent basis with the latest dataseasonal adjustment of the new serieschanges made to published outputs, including the impact of the revisions.
Implementation of Standard Industrial Classification 2007: December 2009 update
AbstractONS initially publicised its plans for the implementation of SIC 2007 in Hughes (2008), and this was followed up with an article covering a wider Government Statistical Service angle (Brook and Hughes 2009). This article describes the methodological aspects of the move to SIC 2007; lays out the implications for
National Accounts; and gives an update on the timetable for implementation across the Labour Market Statistics outputs, some of the details of which have changed since the previous publication.
Coronial Practice, Indigeneity and Suicide
All available data suggest that, like many other Indigenous peoples, Australian Aborigines are significantly more likely to kill themselves than are non-Aboriginal Australians. This statistical disparity is normally positioned an objective, ontological and undeniable social fact, a fact best explained as a function of endemic community disadvantage and disenfranchisement. This research explores the possibility that higher-than-normal Aboriginal suicide rates may also be a function of coronial decision-making practices. Based upon in-depth interviews with 32 coroners from across Australia, the following conclusions emerged from the data. First, coroners have differing perceptions of Indigenous capacity, and are less likely to have concerns about intent when the suicide is committed by an Indigenous person. Second, coroners have identified divergent scripts of Indigenous suicide, particularly its spontaneity and public location, and this supports rather than challenges, a finding of suicide. Third, the coronial perception of Indigenous life is a factor which influences a suicide determination for Indigenous deaths. Finally, the low level of Indigenous engagement with the coronial system, and the unlikelihood of a challenge to the finding of suicide by Indigenous families, means that a coronial determination of suicide is more likely.