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3.3 Years 10 and 12 retention and attainmentImproving reporting of year 10 and 12 completion rates is important for obtainingnationally comparable data for future reports.3.5 and 3.6 Labour force participation, unemployment and incomeIn addition to the five-yearly Census, the ABS program of ongoing Indigenousspecific surveys provides labour (including CDEP) and income data on athree-yearly cycle, including the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait IslanderHealth Survey (NATSIHS) and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait IslanderSocial Survey (NATSISS). Additional annual estimates of Indigenous labour forcedata over the period 2002 to 2005 are also available, which were compiled from themonthly Labour Force Survey (see ABS 2005). Data from the 2006 Census willprovide much detailed, high quantity labour force and income data for the nextReport.Future Reports will need to reflect the recent changes to CDEP arrangements notedin this section.3.9 Substantiated child abuse and neglectSubstantiated child protection notifications data have been used to give an insightinto the prevalence of child abuse and neglect, and more specifically, the extent ofsexual abuse. Even as a proxy indicator of abuse and neglect, it is acknowledgedthat the substantiated child protection data do not adequately address the issue.More work is required on developing data to report on the prevalence of child abuseand neglect, particularly sexual abuse.Often children at risk of child abuse or neglect are in an environment where familyviolence is prevalent. Data on family and community violence provides informationon the extent of children at risk of child abuse or neglect. The National InformationDevelopment Plan for Crime and Justice Statistics (ABS Cat. no. 4520.0) hasprioritised the development of statistics on family and domestic violence for allpeople, including Indigenous people. The ABS/AIHW Family and DomesticViolence Statistics Working Group (FDVWG) was established to recommendstrategies to improve the range, availability and quality of family violence statisticalinformation in the health and welfare and crime and justice fields. Progress by theworking group includes a report examining key national data sources(AIHW 2006b). A project has commenced to develop a conceptual framework fordomestic and family violence statistics.134