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Patterns and trendsPatterns and trends in the characteristics of both victims and offenders are includedin this section to enable comparison of the key characteristics of both the victim andthe offender and the circumstances associated with homicide. The trend analysishere is based on six years data from 1999-2000 to 2004-05 obtained from the AIC.Figure 3.10.4 Trends in key factors associated with Indigenous homicide,1999-2000 to 2004-05Offender drank alcoholBoth offender and victim unemployedDomestic altercation10080Per cent60402001999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05Source: AIC National Homicide Monitoring Program, 1999-2000 to 2004-05; table 3A.10.8.• From 1999-2000 to 2004-05, domestic altercation was the major motive formost Indigenous homicides (figure 3.10.4).• Most Indigenous homicides involved persons who were unemployed at the timeof the homicide. In 2004-05, 80.0 per cent of both victims and offenders wereunemployed (figure 3.10.4).• There has been a decline in the proportion of Indigenous homicides where theoffender was under the influence of alcohol from 85.0 per cent in 1999-2000 to67.6 per cent in 2004-05 (figure 3.10.4).Figure 3.10.5 contains data analysing homicide rates by remoteness. These datashould be interpreted with caution. Six years data have been combined for thisanalysis to reduce the effect of fluctuations from year to year in the number ofhomicides. Homicides have been assigned to remoteness areas by the AIC using anABS concordance of postcodes to remoteness areas, however, it is not alwayspossible to assign homicides precisely to remoteness areas because postcode andremoteness area boundaries may not coincide and postcodes, particularly in regionaland remote areas, may cover more than one remoteness area. Population99