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National Indigenous Reform Agreement: P10-Mortality rates (and excess deaths) for children under 5 by leading causes, 2010

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termIndicator
Indicator type:Help on this termIndicator
Short name:Help on this termMortality rates (and excess deaths) for children under 5 by leading causes, 2010
METEOR identifier:Help on this term396468
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Community Services (retired), Superseded 04/04/2011
Description:Help on this term

There are two measures for this indicator:

Measure (1a): Mortality rates for children aged less than five years, by leading causes of death (ICD-10 chapter level), by Indigenous status

Measure (1b): Excess deaths for Indigenous children aged less than five years, by leading causes of death (ICD-10 chapter level).
Rationale:Help on this termHigh 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:Help on this termNational Indigenous Reform Agreement (2010)
Community Services (retired), Superseded 04/04/2011
Outcome area:Help on this termIndigenous children have the same health outcomes as other Australian children
Indigenous, Standard 21/07/2010
Quality statement:Help on this termNational Indigenous Reform Agreement: P10-Mortality rates (and excess deaths) for children under 5 by leading causes, 2010 QS Community Services (retired), Superseded 04/04/2011

Collection and usage attributes

Population group age to:Help on this termChildern under 5 years
Computation description:Help on this term

'Perinatal mortality’ is defined as death of an infant within 28 days of birth (neonatal death) or of a fetus (unborn child) that weighs at least 400 grams or, if birth weight is unavailable, at gestational age of 20 weeks or more.

Part A: Number, rates, rate ratio and rate difference

Part B: Excess deaths for Indigenous children aged less than 5 years is defined as the 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:Help on this term

Part A:

Perinatal and infant mortality rates: 1000 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

Children 1-4 and 0-4 years mortality rates: 100,000 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

Part B: Excess deaths: Observed number of Indigenous deaths less expected number of deaths if the age specific rate of the non-Indigenous population was applied to the Indigenous population for the given age groups above.
Numerator:Help on this term

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
Numerator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Data Element

Number of foetal and neo-natal deaths

Data Source

ABS Perinatal Deaths Collection

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Perinatal numerator data source

Data Element / Data Set

Birth—birth status, code N

Data Source

ABS Perinatal Deaths Collection

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Perinatal numerator data source

Data Element / Data Set

Person—date of birth, DDMMYYYY

Data Source

ABS Causes of Death Collection

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Infant and child numerator data source

Data Element / Data Set

Person—date of death, DDMMYYYY

Data Source

ABS Causes of Death Collection

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Infant and child numerator data source

Data Element / Data Set

Person—age, total years N[NN]

Data Source

ABS Causes of Death Collection

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Infant and child numerator data source

Denominator:Help on this termPerinatal: 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

Denominator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Birth—birth status, code N

Data Source

ABS birth registration data

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Perinatal denominator data source

Data Element / Data Set

Person—age, total years N[NN]

Data Source

ABS Indigenous experimental estimates and projections (2001 Census-based)

Guide for use

Data source type: ERP is derived from Census, PES and assumptions on future fertility, mortality, net migration, etc.

Child 1-4 and 0-4 years denominator data source

Data Element / Data Set

Person—age, total years N[NN].N

Data Source

ABS Estimated resident population (total population)

Guide for use

Data source type: ERP is derived from Census, PES and assumptions on future fertility, mortality, net migration, etc.

Child 1-4 and 0-4 years denominator data source

Data Element / Data Set

Person—estimated resident population of Australia, total people N[N(7)]

Data Source

ABS Estimated resident population (total population)

Guide for use

Data source type: Estimated resident population (ERP) is derived from Census, Post-enumeration survey (PES) and assumptions on future fertility, mortality, net migration, etc.

Child 1-4 and 0-4 years denominator data source

Data Element / Data Set

Person—estimated resident population of Australia, total people N[N(7)]

Data Source

ABS Indigenous experimental estimates and projections (2001 Census-based)

Guide for use

Data source type: ERP is derived from Census, PES and assumptions on future fertility, mortality, net migration, etc.

Child 1-4 and 0-4 years denominator data source

Disaggregation data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Person—Indigenous status, code N

Data Source

ABS Causes of Death Collection

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Person—Indigenous status, code N

Data Source

ABS Perinatal Deaths Collection

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Person—underlying cause of death, code (ICD-10 2nd edn) ANN-ANN

Data Source

ABS Causes of Death Collection

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Person—underlying cause of death, code (ICD-10 2nd edn) ANN-ANN

Data Source

ABS Perinatal Deaths Collection

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2007) NNNNN

Data Source

ABS Causes of Death Collection

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2007) NNNNN

Data Source

ABS Perinatal Deaths Collection

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Comments:Help on this term

Required disaggregation: By leading causes of death; National and state/territory by Indigenous status, by leading cause of death (ICD-10 chapter level)

Recommended disaggregation: National, by Indigenous status, by leading cause of death (ICD-10 chapter level)

Most recent data available for 2010 CRC baseline report: 2007

At this stage, only selected states and territories (NSW, Qld, WA, SA & NT) are considered of accepted quality for reporting Indigenous deaths for all ages.

Indigenous child and particularly infant mortality data is subject to high variability due to small numbers of deaths among children 0 to 4 years.

Due to small number of Indigenous deaths reported each year 5 year, combined data are recommended for reporting.

Perinatal data from the National Perinatal Data Collection (NPDC) is unable to be reported by cause of death. Therefore, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) death registrations data is recommended for reporting perinatal mortality rates by cause of death.

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termRate
Data type:Help on this termReal
Unit of measure:Help on this termPerson
Format:Help on this termN[NN].N

Indicator conceptual framework

Framework and dimensions:Help on this termDeaths

Data source attributes

Data sources:Help on this term
Data Source

ABS birth registration data

Frequency

Annual

Data custodian

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Data Source

ABS Causes of Death Collection

Frequency

Annual

Quality statement

ABS causes of death collection, QS

Data custodian

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Data Source

ABS Indigenous experimental estimates and projections (2001 Census-based)

Frequency

Periodic

Quality statement

ABS Indigenous experimental estimates and projections, QS

Data custodian

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Data Source

ABS Perinatal Deaths Collection

Frequency

Annual

Data custodian

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Data Source

ABS Estimated resident population (total population)

Frequency

Quarterly

Quality statement

ABS Estimated resident population (total population), QS

Data custodian

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Accountability attributes

Organisation responsible for providing data:Help on this termAustralian Bureau of Statistics
Further data development / collection required:Help on this term

Specification: Long-term

The statistical agencies and state/territory governments are currently working with Registrars, 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.

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
See also National Healthcare Agreement: P19-Infant/young child mortality rate, 2010
  • Health, Superseded 08/06/2011
Has been superseded by National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 10-Mortality rates (and excess deaths) by leading causes for children under 5, 2011
  • Indigenous, Superseded 01/07/2012
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