National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 04-Rates of current daily smokers, 2011
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Indicator |
| Short name: | PI 04-Rates of current daily smokers, 2011 |
| METEOR identifier: | 425769 |
| Registration status: | Indigenous, Superseded 01/07/2012 |
| 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| Indicator set: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement (2011) Indigenous, Superseded 01/07/2012 |
| Outcome area: | Indigenous people remain healthy and free of preventable disease Indigenous, Standard 21/07/2010 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Population group age from: | 18 years |
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| Computation description: | Crude rates/percentage are calculated for Indigenous Australians; age-standardised rates are calculated for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Confidence intervals and relative standard errors are calculated for crude and age-standardised rates. Rate ratios and rate differences are calculated for Indigenous:non-Indigenous. Presentation: Per 100 persons (percentage). |
| Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator). |
| Numerator: | People aged 18 years and over who smoke tobacco every day. |
| Numerator data elements: | |
| Denominator: | Total population of people aged 18 years and over |
| Denominator data elements: | |
| Disaggregation: | National and state/territory for Indigenous Australians (crude rates). National and state/territory by Indigenous status (age standardised rates). |
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| Comments: | Most recent data available for 2011 CRC report: NATSISS 2008 (Indigenous); NHS 2007-08 (non-Indigenous). Rates are directly age standardised to the 2001 Australian ERP. Data for this indicator can be found in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework (indicator 2.18). Baseline year for this indicator is 2006; target year is 2031. |
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 | |
| Reporting requirements: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). |
| 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. |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Indigenous Reform Agreement: P04-Rates of current daily smokers, 2010 Community Services (retired), Superseded 04/04/2011 Has been superseded by National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 04-Rates of current daily smokers, 2012 Indigenous, Superseded 13/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PB 02-By 2018, reduce the national smoking rate to 10 per cent of the population and halve the Indigenous smoking rate (Baseline specification), 2011 Health, Superseded 30/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Proportion of adults who are daily smokers, 2011 Health, Superseded 30/10/2011 |