One recurring theme of this paper is that most housing analysis that can be done from the Indigenous-specific surveys can also nowadays be done from the five-yearly national census. Indeed, the census often gives a better tenure and geographic breakdown than surveys can. What the Indigenous-specific surveys have added, in comparison to the census, is some greater detail relating to housing adequacy measures. However, basic adequacy measures can also be derived from the census. So the answer to the question posed in the subtitle, ‘What can the 2002 NATSISS add?’ is, in fact, ‘not all that much’. The 2002 NATSISS confirms census analysis rather than taking it much further. Indeed, in the last section of the paper above, I have suggested that the findings from the 1994 and 2002 Indigenous-specific surveys relating to changes in housing tenure over time among Indigenous people should be treated with some caution and that it may be best to wait until the 2006 Census to work on this topic. Censuses are clearly the pre-eminent data sources for studying Indigenous housing outcomes, but the 2002 NATSISS can offer some insights on adequacy issues.