National Healthcare Agreement: PI 05–Levels of risky alcohol consumption, 2017

Collection and usage attributes

18 years

Data on persons 'at risk of long term alcohol related harm' is based on the 2009 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) guideline 'for healthy men and women, drinking no more than two standard drinks on any day reduces the lifetime risk of harm from alcohol-related disease or injury' and has been operationalised as: for both males and females, an average of more than 2 standard drinks per day in the last week.

Rates are directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population.

Analysis by remoteness and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person.

Presented as a percentage.

95% confidence intervals and relative standard errors are calculated for rates.

100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

Number of persons aged 18 years or over assessed as having an alcohol consumption pattern that puts them at risk of long term alcohol-related harm.

Population aged 18 years or over.

2014–15—State and territory, by:

• sex by age (not reported)
• Indigenous status (non-Indigenous not reported)
• remoteness (Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Remoteness Structure)
• 2011 SEIFA IRSD quintiles
• disability status (not reported)

2014–15—Nationally, by (all not reported):

• sex by remoteness (ASGS Remoteness Structure).
• 2011 SEIFA IRSD deciles.
• remoteness (ASGS Remoteness Structure) by 2011 SEIFA IRSD deciles.

Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication.

Most recent data available for 2017 National Healthcare Agreement performance reporting: 2014–15 (total population, non-Indigenous: NHS); 2014–15 (Indigenous only: NATSISS).

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS) or National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS) data may be used for analysis, dependent upon which survey is most recent.

Data on persons ‘at risk of long term alcohol related harm’ had previously been defined according to the 2001 NHMRC guidelines: for males, an average of more than 4 standard drinks per day in the last week, and for females, an average of more than 2 standard drinks per day in the last week.

Representational attributes

N[N].N

Indicator conceptual framework

Data source attributes

Accountability attributes

National Healthcare Agreement

Australian Bureau of Statistics

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

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes