Table 3 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children whose carer is their birth mother: Proportion of children by Indigenous status of mother in the WA Midwives’ Notification System and WAACHS: weighted survey estimates, Western Australia (a)
Proportion of children (%) (b) | Mother’s Indigenous status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in both WAACHS and Midwives’ Notification System (%) (c) | Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in WAACHS only (%) (c) | Non-Indigenous in both WAACHS and Midwives’ Notification System (%) (c) | ||
Level of relative isolation— | ||||
None | 36.9 | 63.1 | 13.6 | 23.3 |
Low | 26.3 | 72.7 | 9.6 | 17.7 |
Moderate | 20.5 | 88.1 | 3.6 | 8.3 |
High | 9.2 | 96.1 | 1.8 | 2.1 |
Extreme | 7.1 | 98.6 | 0.8 | 0.6 |
Relative socio-economic disadvantage of place of residence— | ||||
Bottom 5% | 24.2 | 86.6 | 6.8 | 6.7 |
5%-10% | 12.7 | 79.9 | 7.5 | 12.6 |
10%-25% | 26.5 | 74.1 | 9.6 | 16.3 |
25%-50% | 26.9 | 71.5 | 8.7 | 19.9 |
Top 50% | 9.7 | 65.5 | 10.9 | 23.6 |
Marital status— | ||||
Married/de facto | 66.5 | 75.1 | 9.3 | 15.6 |
Never married | 31.6 | 79.8 | 6.7 | 13.5 |
Separated/ divorced/ widowed | 1.5 | 61.6 | 11.8 | 26.6 |
Not stated | 0.4 | 52.3 | 11.7 | 36.0 |