National Healthcare Agreement: PI 07-Infant and young child mortality rate, 2015
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Indicator |
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Indicator type:![]() | Progress measure |
Short name:![]() | PI 07-Infant and young child mortality rate, 2015 |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 559054 |
Registration status:![]() | Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |
Description:![]() | Mortality rates for infants and children aged less than 5 years. |
Indicator set:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement (2015) Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |
Outcome area:![]() | Prevention Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Data quality statement:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 07-Infant and young child mortality rate, 2015 QS Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age from:![]() | This indicator uses a number of different population group age lower bounds:
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Population group age to:![]() | This indicator uses a number of different population group age upper bounds:
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Computation:![]() | Infants (<1 year old): 1,000 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) Calculated separately for each of the two age groups, and for all Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Variability bands are to be calculated for single-year rates and aggregate rates by state/territory using the following method for estimating 95% confidence intervals: CI (CR) = CR ± 1.96 x (CR/√d) Where d = number of deaths CI = confidence interval CR = crude rate Presented as:
Rate ratios and rate differences are calculated for comparing Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The rates for a single year use single year data for the numerator, and the average of three years (with the reference year as the middle year) for the denominator. The rates for 5 years of data combined use the average of 5 years data for the numerator and denominator. |
Numerator:![]() | • Number of deaths among infants (aged < 1 year). |
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Denominator:![]() | • Number of live births; and |
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Disaggregation:![]() | 2011–13—State and territory. 2009–13—State and territory, by Indigenous status. 2013—Nationally. 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 (resupplied for children aged 0-4 years for updated Indigenous Estimated Resident Population), 2013—Nationally, by Indigenous status. 2012—Nationally, by remoteness (0-4 years only) (Major Cities, Inner and Outer Regional combined, Remote and Very remote combined). Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. Disaggregation by Indigenous status will be based on data only from jurisdictions for which the quality of Indigenous identification is considered acceptable - NSW, Qld, WA, SA and NT. |
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Comments:![]() | Most recent data available for 2015 National Healthcare Agreement (NHA) performance reporting:
Because of small numbers of deaths each year data are presented in 3 (total population) or 5-year (Indigenous population) groupings (state and territory only). Single year data will be reported for time series analysis (national level only). A system error affected the reporting of WA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander death registrations for 2007, 2008 and 2009 which affected the WA and national death rates reported for the 2011 and 2012 CRC reports. These data have been revised for 2013 reporting. Data by remoteness may be available, pending assessment of data quality. Further details (including historical data) are available from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework (Indicator 1.20). |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class:![]() | Rate |
Data type:![]() | Real |
Unit of measure:![]() | Life event (e.g. birth, death) |
Format:![]() | N[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:![]() | NPA on Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Outcomes |
Further data development / collection required:![]() | Specification: Final, the measure meets the intention of the indicator. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 07-Infant and young child mortality rate, 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 07–Infant and young child mortality rate, 2016 Health, Superseded 31/01/2017 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PB b-Better health: halve the mortality gap for Indigenous children under five by 2018, 2015 Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 01-Proportion of babies born of low birth weight, 2015 Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2015 Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 08-Major causes of death, 2015 Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-Potentially avoidable deaths, 2015 Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |