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| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |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| Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2015) Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |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| Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2015 QS Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |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. |
| Numerator data elements: | |
| 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 |