National Healthcare Agreement: PI 18-Life expectancy, 2012
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Indicator |
| Short name: | PI 18-Life expectancy, 2012 |
| METEOR identifier: | 443680 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 |
| 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| Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2012) Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 |
| Outcome area: | Primary and Community Health Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
| Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 18-Life expectancy, 2012 QS Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
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 data elements: | |
| Disaggregation: | 2008–10—state and territory, by: State and territory, by: |
| Disaggregation data elements: | |
| Comments: | Most recent data available for 2011 CRC report:
Indigenous estimates of life expectancy not produced for Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania or ACT 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: | Deaths Effectiveness |
Data source attributes | |
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Accountability attributes | |
| Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| Benchmark: | National Healthcare Agreement: PB 08-Close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2012 |
| Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Long-term |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Reference documents: | The burden of disease and injury in Australia 2003 (AIHW, 2007): http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title/10317 |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 18-Life expectancy, 2011 Health, Superseded 30/10/2011 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2013 Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PB 08-Close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 Indigenous, Standard 11/09/2012 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PB 09-Halve the mortality gap for Indigenous children under five within a decade, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 Indigenous, Standard 11/09/2012 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19-Infant and young child mortality rate, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20-Potentially avoidable deaths, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 59-Age-standardised mortality by major cause of death, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 See also National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 01-Estimated life expectancy at birth, 2012 Indigenous, Superseded 13/06/2013 See also National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 01-Estimated life expectancy at birth, 2013 Indigenous, Superseded 13/12/2013 |