National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 01-Estimated life expectancy at birth, 2019
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | PI 01-Estimated life expectancy at birth, 2019 |
METEOR identifier: | 697094 |
Registration status: | Indigenous, Superseded 23/08/2019 |
Description: | The average number of years newborn babies could expect to live, if they experienced the age/sex specific death rates that applied at their birth throughout their lifetimes by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status. |
Rationale: | Life expectancy at birth is one of the most widely used broad measures of population health outcomes. It is the key component of measuring the target to ‘Close the gap in life expectancy within a generation’. |
Indicator set: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement (2019) Indigenous, Superseded 23/08/2019 |
Outcome area: | Indigenous Australians achieve health outcomes comparable to the broader population Indigenous, Superseded 25/02/2024 |
Data quality statement: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 01-Estimated life expectancy at birth, 2019; Quality Statement Indigenous, Standard 07/02/2019 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Number of years of life expectancy at birth (including the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians) and confidence intervals (upper and lower limits). |
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Computation: | This measure is defined as: direct estimation of the life expectancy gap at birth between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians using the average number of deaths in the relevant 3-year period and the estimated resident population at the mid-point of that 3-year period, with adjustments for incomplete identification by Indigenous status. For more information, see Life Tables for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 2015–17 (ABS 2018). |
Numerator data elements: | |
Disaggregation: | National, selected states/territories by: sex by Indigenous status. 2015–2017: National, Indigenous by remoteness area (Major cities and Inner regional; Outer regional, Remote and Very remote). |
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Comments: | Most recent data available are: 2015–2017 data released on 29 November 2018 and included in this cycle of reporting. Life expectancy at birth estimates by Indigenous status for 2005–2007 were revised based on improved measures of identification propensities. Indigenous estimates of life expectancy are not produced for Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory due to the small number of Indigenous deaths reported in these jurisdictions. Baseline year for the Council of Australian Governments' National Indigenous Reform Agreement target is 2006 using the 3-year average of 2005–2007; baseline for this indicator is 2005–2007; target year is 2031. The term ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’ is preferred when referring to the separate Indigenous peoples of Australia. However, the term ‘Indigenous’ is used interchangeably with ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander’ in this indicator to assist readability. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Mean (average) |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Time (e.g. days, hours) |
Format: | N[N].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Life Expectancy & Wellbeing |
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Reporting requirements: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Further data development / collection required: | Improve the quality of Indigenous identification in births and deaths data. Annual estimates of Indigenous life expectancy are not currently available but given rate of change may not be required. Life expectancy data by remoteness area are only currently able to be produced for the two groupings of: Major cities and Inner regional areas; and Outer regional, Remote and Very remote areas. Further disaggregation of these groups would be useful. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Steward: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement Performance Information Management Group |
Reference documents: | ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 2017. Australian Demographic Statistics, June 2017. ABS cat.no. 3101.0. Canberra: ABS ABS 2018. Life Tables for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 2015–17. ABS cat.no. 3302.0.55.003. Canberra: ABS |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 01-Estimated life expectancy at birth, 2018 Indigenous, Superseded 31/07/2018 Has been superseded by National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 01-Estimated life expectancy at birth, 2020 Indigenous, Standard 23/08/2019 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PB a–Better health: close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2018 Health, Superseded 19/06/2019 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06–Life expectancy, 2018 Health, Superseded 19/06/2019 |