National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2015
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Indicator |
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Indicator type:![]() | Indicator |
Short name:![]() | PI 06-Life expectancy, 2015 |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 559056 |
Registration status:![]() | Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |
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Indicator set:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement (2015) Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |
Outcome area:![]() | Prevention Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Data quality statement:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2015 QS Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |
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:![]() | The indicator does not have a numerator or denominator. The average number of years a person could expect to live from the day they are born if they experienced mortality rates at each age that are currently experienced by the relevant population. |
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Disaggregation:![]() | 2011–13—State and territory, by:
2010-12 (previously supplied)—State and territory, by:
2011-13—Nationally, by:
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Comments:![]() | Most recent data available for 2015 National Healthcare Agreement (NHA) performance reporting:
Indigenous estimates of life expectancy are 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 |
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Further data development / collection required:![]() | Specification: Final, the measure meets the intention of the indicator. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Reference documents:![]() | The burden of disease and injury in Australia 2003 (AIHW, 2007): http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=6442467990 |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06–Life expectancy, 2016 Health, Superseded 31/01/2017 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PB a-Better health: close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2015 Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 07-Infant and young child mortality rate, 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 See also National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 01—Estimated life expectancy at birth, 2016 Indigenous, Superseded 01/07/2016 See also National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 01—Estimated life expectancy at birth, 2017 Indigenous, Superseded 06/06/2017 |