Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 3.4.2–Life expectancy, 2019
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | AHPF PI 3.4.2–Life expectancy, 2019 |
METEOR identifier: | 715309 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 |
Description: | The average number of years a person could expect to live if they experienced the age/sex specific death rates that applied at their birth throughout their lifetime. |
Indicator set: | Australian Health Performance Framework, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Life expectancy for total population is calculated for a rolling 3-year period and reported annually. Life expectancy for Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations is calculated for a rolling 3-year period and reported every 5 years. Presented as:
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Computation: | Calculated by direct estimation of life expectancy for all Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians using the average number of deaths in the 3-year period and the estimated resident population at the mid-point of that period. |
Numerator: | The indicator does not have a numerator or denominator. The average number of years a person could expect to live from the day they are born if they experienced mortality rates at each age that are currently experienced by the relevant population. |
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Disaggregation: | 2000–2002 to 2015–2017—Nationally, by sex. 2005–2007 to 2015–2017—State and territory, by sex. 2011–2013 to 2015–2017—Primary Health Network (PHN), by sex. Greater Capital City Statistical Area (GCCSA), by sex (not reported). Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4) by sex (not reported). 2005–2007, 2010–2012, 2015–17—Nationally, by Indigenous status and sex. 2005–2007, 2010–2012, 2015–17—State and territory, by Indigenous status and sex. 2015–2017—Nationally, by sex and remoteness area (Major Cities, Inner Regional and Outer Regional combined, Remote and Very Remote combined). Estimates of life expectancy at birth by Indigenous status and state/territory are based on data from 4 jurisdictions for which the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths is considered acceptable for reliable estimates – New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for 2019 Australian Health Performance Framework reporting: 2015–17. Indigenous estimates of life expectancy are not produced for Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania or the Australian Capital Territory due to the small number of Indigenous deaths reported in these jurisdictions. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Mean (average) |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Time (e.g. days, hours) |
Format: | NN.N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | 4. Deaths |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | Australian Health Performance Framework |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Accountability: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 3.4.2–Life expectancy, 2020 Health, Superseded 11/07/2023 See also Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.1.6–Potentially avoidable deaths, 2019 Health, Superseded 01/12/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06–Life expectancy, 2020 Health, Standard 13/03/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06–Life expectancy, 2021 Health, Standard 03/07/2020 |