National Healthcare Agreement: PB a-Better health: close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2015
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Indicator |
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Indicator type:![]() | Indicator |
Short name:![]() | PB a-Close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2015 |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 559081 |
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Description:![]() | Difference between Indigenous and non-Indigenous life expectancies at birth. |
Indicator set:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement (2015) |
Outcome area:![]() | Prevention Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description:![]() | A generation is defined as 25 years. 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 number of years. |
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Computation:![]() | Calculated by direct estimation of life expectancy at birth 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 a mid-point of that period. |
Numerator:![]() | The gap estimate 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:![]() | State and territory, by:
Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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Comments:![]() | Most recent data available for 2015 National Healthcare Agreement (NHA) performance reporting: 2010–2012. NO NEW DATA FOR 2015 REPORTING. Baseline: 2005–2007. 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 |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data:![]() | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Benchmark:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement Performance Benchmark Close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation. Refer: http://www.federalfinancialrelations.gov.au/content/npa/healthcare/national-agreement.pdf |
Further data development / collection required:![]() | Specification: Final, the measure meets the intention of the indicator. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PB a-Better health: close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2014
Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PB a–Better health: close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2016
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2015
See also National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 01—Estimated life expectancy at birth, 2016
See also National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 01—Estimated life expectancy at birth, 2017
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