Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 3.3.2–Self-assessed health status, 2020

Collection and usage attributes

15 years

Includes people who self-assess their health as 'excellent' or 'very good'.

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. Age-standardised percentages are directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population.

95% confidence intervals are calculated for percentages.

100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

Number of persons aged 15 and over who self-assess their health as 'excellent' or 'very good'.

Population aged 15 and over

2017–18—Nationally, persons reporting their health status as 'excellent' or 'very good' by:

• Sex and age group
• Remoteness (Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) 2016 Remoteness Structure) (not reported)
• SEIFA 2016 IRSD quintile (not reported)
• Disability status (not reported).

2011–13—Nationally, persons reporting their health status as 'excellent' or 'very good' by:

• Indigenous status (not reported).

2001, 2004–05, 2007–08, 2011–12, 2014–15, 2017–18—State and territory and nationally, persons reporting their health status as 'excellent' or 'very good'.

Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication.

Most recent data available for 2019 Australian Health Performance Framework reporting: 2017–18 (total population, non-Indigenous: NHS); 2011–13 (Indigenous: AATSIHS).

Data for 2001, 2004–05, 2007–08, 2011–12 and 2014–15 were obtained from the National Health Surveys run in respect of these years. Similar data elements were used to those listed above for the 2017–18 NHS.

Representational attributes

N[NN].N

Indicator conceptual framework

Data source attributes

Accountability attributes

Australian Health Performance Framework

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Source and reference attributes

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes