Walter and Andersen 2013, Indigenous Statistics: A Quantitative Research Methdology

Create

Statistics do not just describe reality; they ______ it.

Census data

Can be used by Indigenous tribes to plan the infrastructure needed to meet tribal government responsibilities

Official statistics

Operate as a powerful truth claim in most modern societies

Indigenous populations

They become statistical creations based on aggregate individual-level data rather than real-world concrete groups

Population statistics

Map the contour of the social world itself and play a role in defining a nation's concept of itself

Methodology

The active element in constituting the portrait of the realities that statistical techniques eventually create

Qualitative methodologies

Methodology that focuses on small or localized objectives to examine them more deeply, analyzing subjective experiences with a level of contextualization and depth, often over a long period of time

Quantitative methodologies

Methodology that allows researchers to draw information from the local context, standardize it, and, removing it from context, deliver it to a central point of calculation

problem, uncritiqued

Indigenous people are constituted as the ______ and non-Indigenous ways of life are _______.

Statistics

Systematically collected numerical facts

Census data

Used to calculate funding for Indigenous people

Statistics

Describe Indigenous population profiles and geographical distribution as well as their delayed levels of educational achievement, labor market participation, health, and economic status

Methods

The research method of statistical analysis itself

Interpret, society

Statistics ______ reality and influence the way we understand ______

Objective

Indigenous statistics are accepted as straightforward and ______

Pejorative

Indigenous statistics are ______ and tend toward a documentation of difference, deficit, and dysfunction

Constructions

Researchers must understand that statistics are social ______

Complexity

A problem of quantitative methodologies is that it misses the _______ of our social relations

Place

A problem of quantitative methodologies is that is downplays the importance of ______ which is central to Indigenous populations

Mark

Researchers who create statistics leave their _____ on them

Dominant

Data about Indigenous peoples both reflect and constitute the _____ cultural framework of the nation-state within which they operate

Understanding, constructions

For researchers, ______ how statistics are created and deployed is crucial to be able to understand them as social _______ and therefore to be able to create alternatives

Translation, academia

We must be aware and careful of the _____ processes through which non-academic knowledge is translated into _______