National Indigenous Reform Agreement: P09a-Child under 5 mortality rate (and excess deaths) (AIHW Data), 2010
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | Child under 5 mortality rate (and excess deaths) (AIHW Data), 2010 |
METEOR identifier: | 396923 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Superseded 04/04/2011 |
Description: | There are two measures for this indicator:
Measure (1a): Mortality rates for children aged less than five years, by Indigenous status Measure (1b): Excess deaths for Indigenous children aged less than five years. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) data for this indicator is for perinatal mortality only. |
Rationale: | High 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Indicator set: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement (2010) Community Services (retired), Superseded 04/04/2011 |
Outcome area: | Indigenous children have the same health outcomes as other Australian children Indigenous, Standard 21/07/2010 |
Data quality statement: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement: P09a-Child under 5 mortality rate (and excess deaths) (supplementary AIHW data), 2010 QS Community Services (retired), Superseded 04/04/2011 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age to: | Infants up to 28 days of birth |
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Computation description: | Part A: Number, rate, rate ratio and rate difference
(‘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 B: Excess perinatal deaths: Observed number of Indigenous deaths among perinatals less expected number of perinatal deaths among Indigenous children if the age specific rate of the non-Indigenous population was applied to the Indigenous population. |
Computation: | Part A: 1000 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) Part B: Excess deaths: Observed number of Indigenous deaths among perinatals less expected number of perinatal deaths among Indigenous children if the age specific rate of the non-Indigenous population was applied to the Indigenous population. |
Numerator: | Number of perinatal deaths (foetal and neo-natal) |
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Denominator: | Perinatal: Number of all live births and stillbirths |
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Comments: | Disaggregation: National and selected state/territories by Indigenous status Most recent data available for 2010 CRC baseline report: 2007 |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Rate |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[N].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Deaths |
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Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Long-term |
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Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 09a-Child under 5 mortality rate (and excess deaths) (AIHW Data), 2011 Indigenous, Superseded 01/07/2012 See also National Healthcare Agreement: P19-Infant/young child mortality rate, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 |