National Indigenous Reform Agreement: P04-Rates of current daily smokers, 2010
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Indicator |
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Indicator type:![]() | Indicator |
Short name:![]() | Rates of current daily smokers, 2010 |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 396393 |
Registration status:![]() | Community Services (retired), Superseded 04/04/2011 |
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Indicator set:![]() | National Indigenous Reform Agreement (2010) Community Services (retired), Superseded 04/04/2011 |
Outcome area:![]() | Indigenous people remain healthy and free of preventable disease Indigenous, Standard 21/07/2010 |
Data quality statement:![]() | National Indigenous Reform Agreement: P04-Rates of current daily smokers, 2010 QS Community Services (retired), Superseded 04/04/2011 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age from:![]() | 18 years |
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Computation description:![]() | Presentation: Number and percentage (crude and age-standardised), rate ratios and rate difference, including confidence intervals and relative standard errors for percentages. |
Computation:![]() | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator:![]() | People aged 18 years and over who smoke tobacco every day |
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Denominator:![]() | Total population of people aged 18 years and over |
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Comments:![]() | Disaggregation: National and state/territory by Indigenous status. NATSISS and National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS) data are collected on alternating 3-yearly cycles. Most recent data available for 2010 CRC baseline report: NATSISS 2008 (Indigenous) NHS 2007-08 (non-Indigenous) |
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 | |
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Accountability attributes | |
Organisation responsible for providing data:![]() | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
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. Expanding the National Drug Strategy Household Survey (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Indigenous specific surveys would provide sufficiently robust and regular data. |
Other issues caveats:![]() | Proportions are directly age-standardised to the Australian population as at 30 June 2001 |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | Has been superseded by National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 04-Rates of current daily smokers, 2011 Indigenous, Superseded 01/07/2012 See also National Healthcare Agreement: P06-Proportion of adults who are daily smokers, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Proportion of adults who are daily smokers, 2011 Health, Superseded 30/10/2011 |