National Indigenous Reform Agreement: P09b-Child under 5 mortality rate (and excess deaths) (ABS Data), 2010
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | Child under 5 mortality rate (and excess deaths) (ABS Data), 2010 |
METEOR identifier: | 396458 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Superseded 04/04/2011 |
Description: | There are two measures for this indicator:
Measure (1a): Mortality rates for children aged less than five years, by Indigenous status Measure (1b): Excess deaths for Indigenous children aged less than five years. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data for this indicator is for perinatal mortality, infant mortality, child 1-4 years mortality and child 0-4 years mortality. |
Rationale: | High level of public interest. Key measure for the 'Closing the Gap' indicator of halving the gap in mortality rates for children under 5. |
Indicator set: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement (2010) Community Services (retired), Superseded 04/04/2011 |
Outcome area: | Indigenous children have the same health outcomes as other Australian children Indigenous, Standard 21/07/2010 |
Data quality statement: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement: P09b-Child under 5 mortality rate (and excess deaths) (ABS Data), 2010 QS Community Services (retired), Superseded 04/04/2011 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age to: | Under 5 years of age |
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Computation description: | Part A: Number, rate, rate ratio and rate difference Part B: Excess deaths: Observed number of Indigenous deaths among perinatals, infants, children aged 1–4 years and children aged 0–4 years less expected number of deaths among Indigenous children of the corresponding age group if the age specific rate of the non-Indigenous population was applied to the Indigenous population. |
Computation: | Part A: Perinatal and infant mortality rates: 1000 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) Children 1-4 and 0-4 mortality rates: 100,000 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) Part B: Excess deaths: Observed number of Indigenous deaths among children aged 0-4 years less expected number of deaths among Indigenous children aged 0-4 years if the age specific rate of the non-Indigenous population was applied to the Indigenous population. |
Numerator: | Perinatal: Number of perinatal deaths (foetal and neo-natal)
Infant: Number of deaths among children aged 0-1 years Children 1-4: Number of deaths among children aged 1-4 years Children 0-4: Number of deaths among children 0 to 4 years |
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Denominator: | Perinatal: Number of all live births and stillbirths
Infant: Number of live births Children 1-4: Population aged 1-4 years Children 0-4: Population aged 0-4 years |
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Comments: | Disaggregation: National and selected state/territories by Indigenous status Most recent data available for 2010 CRC baseline report: 2007 At this stage, only data from selected state/territories are considered of acceptable quality for reporting mortality of Indigenous persons (NSW, Qld, WA, SA and NT). Due to small number of Indigenous deaths reported each year, 5 year combined data will be reported. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Rate |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[N].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Deaths |
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Accountability attributes | |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Long-term
The statistical agencies and state/territory governments are currently working with Registrars and funeral directors and doctors to improve the quality of Indigenous status information on death notification forms and death certificates. Indigenous identification needs improvement in deaths data. |
Other issues caveats: | Indigenous child mortality data is subject to high variability due to small numbers of deaths among children 0 to 4 years. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 09b-Child under 5 mortality rate (and excess deaths) (ABS Data), 2011 Indigenous, Superseded 01/07/2012 See also National Healthcare Agreement: P19-Infant/young child mortality rate, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 |