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IndigenousInner regionalJurisdictionLabour forceMajor citiesMean and medianincome measuresA person of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander originwho identifies as an Aboriginal and/or Torres StraitIslander.See ‘remoteness areas’.The Australian Government or a State or TerritoryGovernment and areas that it has legal authority over.The labour force is the most widely used measure of theeconomically active population or the formal supply oflabour. It is a measure of the number of people contributingto, or willing to contribute to, the supply of labour and, asdefined by the ABS, comprises two mutually exclusivecategories of population: the employed (people who haveworked for at least one hour in the reference week,including those who have participated in CommunityDevelopment Employment Projects (CDEP)), and theunemployed (people who are without work, but are activelylooking for work and available to start work within fourweeks).See ‘remoteness areas’.A mean income value is the average value of a set ofincome data. It is calculated by adding up all the values inthe set of data and dividing that sum by the number ofvalues in the dataset. Median value is the middle point of aset of income data. Lining up the values in a set of incomedata from largest to smallest, the one in the centre is themedian income value (if the centre point lies between twonumbers, the median value is the average value of the twonumbers).Median value is a better measure for income than mean asmean income values are more influenced by extremeincome values (including the lowest and highest incomes).Therefore, median income value is a more accurate measureof income for an average household or average individualincome earner.XVIIIGLOSSARY

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