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National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 04-Rates of current daily smokers, 2011

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Indicator
Indicator type:Indicator
Short name:PI 04-Rates of current daily smokers, 2011
METeOR identifier:425769
Registration status:Indigenous, Archived 01/07/2012
Description:Proportion of adults who are current daily smokers, by Indigenous status.
Rationale:Smoking is a major risk factor that contributes to ill health. Indigenous Australians are twice as likely as non-Indigenous Australians to smoke. Reducing the rate of smoking among Indigenous Australians will assist in closing the gap in life expectancy.
Indicator set:National Indigenous Reform Agreement (2011) Indigenous, Archived 01/07/2012
Outcome area:Indigenous people remain healthy and free of preventable disease Indigenous, Endorsed 21/07/2010

Collection and usage attributes

Population group age from:18 years
Computation description:

Crude rates/percentage are calculated for Indigenous Australians; age-standardised rates are calculated for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Confidence intervals and relative standard errors are calculated for crude and age-standardised rates.

Rate ratios and rate differences are calculated for Indigenous:non-Indigenous.

Presentation: Per 100 persons (percentage).

Computation:100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator).
Numerator:People aged 18 years and over who smoke tobacco every day.
Numerator data elements:
Data Element / Data SetPerson—tobacco smoking status, code N
Data Source
ABS 2008 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS)
Guide for use
Data source type: Survey
Data Element / Data SetPerson—date of birth, DDMMYYYY
Data Source
ABS 2008 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS)
Guide for use
Data source type: Survey
Data Element / Data SetPerson—tobacco smoking status, code N
Data Source
ABS 2007-08 National Health Survey (NHS)
Guide for use
Data source type: Survey
Data Element / Data SetPerson—date of birth, DDMMYYYY
Data Source
ABS 2007-08 National Health Survey (NHS)
Guide for use
Data source type: Survey
Denominator:Total population of people aged 18 years and over
Denominator data elements:
Data Element / Data SetPerson—date of birth, DDMMYYYY
Data Source
ABS 2008 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS)
Guide for use
Data source type: Survey
Data Element / Data SetPerson—date of birth, DDMMYYYY
Data Source
ABS 2007-08 National Health Survey (NHS)
Guide for use
Data source type: Survey
Disaggregation:

National and state/territory for Indigenous Australians (crude rates).

National and state/territory by Indigenous status (age standardised rates).

Disaggregation data elements:
Data Element / Data SetPerson—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2006) NNNNN
Data Source
ABS 2008 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS)
Guide for use
Data source type: Survey
Data Element / Data SetPerson—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2006) NNNNN
Data Source
ABS 2007-08 National Health Survey (NHS)
Guide for use
Data source type: Survey
Data Element / Data SetPerson—Indigenous status, code N
Data Source
ABS 2007-08 National Health Survey (NHS)
Guide for use
Data source type: Survey
Comments:

Most recent data available for 2011 CRC report: NATSISS 2008 (Indigenous); NHS 2007-08 (non-Indigenous).

Rates are directly age standardised to the 2001 Australian ERP.

Data for this indicator can be found in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework (indicator 2.18).

Baseline year for this indicator is 2006; target year is 2031.

Representational attributes

Representation class:Percentage
Data type:Real
Unit of measure:Person
Format:NN.N

Indicator conceptual framework

Framework and dimensions:Health Behaviours

Data source attributes

Data sources:
Data SourceABS 2008 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS)
Frequency
Every 6 years.
Data custodian
Australian Bureau of Statistics

Data SourceABS 2007-08 National Health Survey (NHS)
Frequency
Every 3 years
Data custodian
Australian Bureau of Statistics

Accountability attributes

Reporting requirements:National Indigenous Reform Agreement
Organisation responsible for providing data:Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Further data development / collection required:

Specification: Long-term.

Mechanisms for reporting annually in between surveys could be explored.

Reliable data on Indigenous adolescents would be useful.

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

See also National Healthcare Agreement: PB 02-By 2018, reduce the national smoking rate to 10 per cent of the population and halve the Indigenous smoking rate (Baseline specification), 2011 Health, Superseded 30/10/2011

See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Proportion of adults who are daily smokers, 2011 Health, Superseded 30/10/2011

Supersedes National Indigenous Reform Agreement: P04-Rates of current daily smokers, 2010 Community Services, Superseded 04/04/2011

Has been superseded by National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 04-Rates of current daily smokers, 2012 Indigenous, Archived 13/06/2013
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