Lost in translation?: Remote Indigenous households and definitions of the family.

The author proposes that a new definition of household, called extended family household, be added to the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to encompass the complex familial structures of indigenous societies. The nuclear family structure, which is considered a starting point by the ABS, is not a natural outcome of aboriginal Australian kinship systems. The paper focuses on the complexity of cultural translation involved in evaluating the data from the ABS Indigenous Enumeration Strategy and uses case studies to analyze responses.