National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06–Life expectancy, 2016

Collection and usage attributes

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
• confidence intervals/variability bands (Indigenous life expectancy only)
• difference between Indigenous and non-Indigenous life expectancies at birth
• difference between male and female life expectancies at birth (total population).

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.

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.

2012–14—State and territory, by:

• sex

2010–12 (previously supplied)—State and territory, by:

• Indigenous status and sex

2010–12 (previously supplied)—Nationally, by:

• Sex by remoteness (Major City and Inner Regional combined; Outer Regional, Remote and Very Remote combined)

Most recent data available for 2016 National Healthcare Agreement performance reporting:

• 2012–14 (total population)
• 2010–12 (Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations; remoteness areas)

Indigenous estimates of life expectancy are not produced for Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania or the Australian Capital Territory due to the small number of Indigenous deaths reported in these jurisdictions.

Representational attributes

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Indicator conceptual framework

Data source attributes

Accountability attributes

National Healthcare Agreement

Australian Bureau of Statistics

PB a-Close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2016

Specification: Final, the measure meets the intention of the indicator.

Source and reference attributes

AIHW, Begg S, Vos T, Barker B, Stevenson C, Stanley L & Lopez A 2007. The burden of disease and injury in Australia 2003. Cat. no. PHE 82. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 18 November 2015 http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=6442467990

Relational attributes