Some statistical context for analysis of CDEP

This volume includes four case studies of communities that have been affected by the reforms to the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) outlined in the previous chapters. The first three case studies are based in very remote parts of Australia where the scheme was a prominent feature of the Indigenous labour market between its inception in 1977 and closure in 2015. Those sites are based in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara,1 Anmatjere and Maningrida census regions. The other case study site is based on the far south coast of NSW. This chapter will provide rudimentary information on CDEP scheme employment for those areas, as well as some broader statistical context on the CDEP scheme derived from administrative, survey and census data