What?
Indigenous Online Self Help Tutorials - Phase 2 includes two new videos, as well as updates to the two videos we asked you to comment on in Phase One of this project. Please have a look, we would love to hear your feedback!
Why?
The range of Indigenous data available across the ABS website is broad, with many specific issues surrounding their use. These videos provide a means for clients to easily gain an understanding of where to find and how to use the key types of Indigenous data.
When?
A series of on-line tutorials on finding and using Indigenous data will be released to the ABS website in May/June 2010.
#1: Peter
You should consult with your Comms branch about labelling and higher order principles in naming structure.
Is this about Indigenous (primarily)
or
Is this about Self Help Tutorials?
I would suggest the information architecture and structure should be Self Help Tutorials - Indigenous because you are going to have many Self Help tutorials.
The way you have it named now is ambiguous and implies it is for Indigenous people
#2: Simon
Overall the tutorials on Finding and Using Indigenous Education Information and Indigenous Population Estimates and Projections are well done. They are comprehensive and cover a range of ABS sources, at a good pace.
One comment: the Finding and Using Indigenous Education Information one refers to `Census of Population and Dwellings'. Perhaps this should be `Census of Population and Housing'?
#3: Scott
Overall, the tutorial is very clear and well done, but I have a few suggestions for improvement.
1) Although the Labour Force definitions are defined very well, the focus has shifted from the indigneous perspective to the standard monthly labour force survey. There is no information linking how these monthly concepts (ie "reference week" and "in the last 4 weeks") relate to the *annual* estimates for Indigenous labour force characteristics.
2) Defining part-time and full-time employment could lead to confusion, as we currently don't publish indigenous employment broken down by part-time and full-time.
3) When talking about remoteness, the visuals zoom in on Darwin as the voice over refers to areas that have small indigenous populations. Victoria or Tasmania may have been better areas to highlight when referring to low indigenous populations
4) The reference to Age Standardisation is important, but in reference to publication 6287.0, we don't perform any age standardisation. The voice over explains that it isn't important when looking at overall populations 15 years and over, but it may lead users to believe that age standardisation has been performed on Tables where smaller age groups are present (ie Table 2 and Table 4 of 6287.0)
5) Also, the visuals highlight the 2007 issue of 6287.0, which is now out-of-date now that the 2009 issue has just been released.