Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 3.4.1–Infant and young child mortality rate, 2019
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Indicator |
| Short name: | AHPF PI 3.4.1–Infant and young child mortality rate, 2019 |
| METEOR identifier: | 715307 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 |
| Description: | Mortality rates for infants and children aged less than 5 years. |
| Indicator set: | Australian Health Performance Framework, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 Australian Health Performance Framework, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/10/2021 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Computation: | Infants (<1 year old): 1,000 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) Calculated separately for each of the two age groups, and for all Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Presented as:
Infant mortality rates: The rates for a single year use single year infant deaths for the numerator, and the number of single year live births for the denominator. Child mortality rates: The rates for a single year use single year data for the numerator, and the number of single year population for the denominator. |
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| Disaggregation: | 2008–2017—National, infants aged under 1. 2008–2017—National by sex, children aged 0–4. 2008–2017—State and territory by sex, infants aged under 1. 2008–2017—State and territory by sex, children aged 0–4. 2008–2017—National by Indigenous status and sex, infants aged under 1. 2008–2017—National by Indigenous status and sex, children aged 0–4. 2011–2017—Primary Health Network, infants aged under 1. 2011–2017—Primary Health Network, children aged 0–4. 2011–2017—National by remoteness areas (Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Remoteness Structure), infants aged under 1 2011–2017—National by remoteness areas (ASGS Remoteness Structure), children aged 0–4. Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. Disaggregation by Indigenous status will be based on data only from jurisdictions for which the quality of Indigenous identification is considered acceptable—New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and Northern Territory. |
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| Comments: | Most recent data available for 2019 Australian Health Performance Framework reporting: 2017. Single year data are reported for time series analysis. |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Rate |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Life event (e.g. birth, death) |
| Format: | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
| Framework and dimensions: | 4. Deaths |
Data source attributes | |
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Accountability attributes | |
| Reporting requirements: | Australian Health Performance Framework |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Accountability: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 3.4.1–Infant and young child mortality rate, 2020 Health, Superseded 11/07/2023 See also Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 2.1.6–Potentially avoidable deaths, 2019 Health, Superseded 01/12/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 07–Infant and young child mortality rate, 2020 Health, Standard 13/03/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 07–Infant and young child mortality rate, 2021 Health, Standard 03/07/2020 |