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Non-school qualifications• In the four remoteness areas for which comparable data were available,Indigenous people were about 1.3 times as likely as their non-Indigenouscounterparts to be without a non-school qualification (figure 13.1.3).• For both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, those living in more remoteareas were less likely to have a non-school qualification.Labour force participation and unemployment• There were no statistically significant differences across the four remotenessareas in the proportions of Indigenous people not in the labour force orunemployed. The pattern was different for non-Indigenous people, where thoseliving in remote areas were less likely than those living in other areas to be outof the labour force (figure 13.1.3).• The rate ratio between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people not in the labourforce was highest for those living in remote areas (2.2), and lowest for thoseliving in inner regional areas (1.4).• The rate ratio for unemployment was highest for those living in inner regionalareas (2.8) followed by those in the remote areas (2.5). For those living in themajor cities the ratio was 1.8.Low income• Indigenous people living in major cities were less likely than those living in theregional and remote areas to have low equivalised household incomes. Thedifference between major cities (39.9 per cent) and outer regional areas (48.5 percent) was statistically significant (figure 13.1.3).• Indigenous people living in outer regional areas were significantly more likelythan those living in the inner regional areas to have low individual incomes(28.2 per cent compared with 21.6 per cent).• The rate ratio between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people did not vary muchaccording to remoteness.Home ownership (Indigenous people only)• Indigenous people in remote areas were least likely to be living in a house thatwas owned or being purchased by a member of their household (there are nocomparable data on home ownership for non-Indigenous people fromthe 2004-05 NHS).MEASURINGMULTIPLEDISADVANTAGE13.9