National Healthcare Agreement: P59-Age-standardised mortality by major cause of death, 2010
Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:
Indicator
Indicator type:
Indicator
Short name:
Mortality by major cause of death, 2010
METeOR identifier:
395099
Registration status:
Health, Superseded 08/06/2011
Description:
Age-standardised mortality rate by major cause of death, and rate ratios for Indigenous people and people living in remote or low socio-economic status (SES) areas.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (with input from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on the data quality statement).
Further data development / collection required:
Specification: Long-term
Accuracy of Indigenous identification of deaths, and the underlying Indigenous population data, needs to be improved.
Other issues caveats:
Present directly age-standardised rates for Indigenous, remoteness area and SES.
Disaggregation by Indigenous status is to be reported using a 3 or 5 year rolling average.
Disaggregations within individual jurisdictions are subject to data quality considerations.
Further details (including data for 2002 to 2006) are available from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework (Indicator 1.22 & 1.23).
