National Healthcare Agreement: PB a–Better health: close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2020
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, 2020 |
METEOR identifier: | 716254 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 13/03/2020 |
Description: | Difference between Indigenous and non-Indigenous life expectancies at birth. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2020) Health, Standard 13/03/2020 |
Outcome area: | Prevention Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | A generation is defined as 25 years. 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: | 2015–17—State and territory (see note below), by:
Note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 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. Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for 2020 National Healthcare Agreement performance reporting: 2015–2017 (Indigenous and non-Indigenous population). Baseline: 2005–2007. 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. The Life Tables for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians (cat. no. 3302.0.55.003) publication is produced every 5 years. Non-Indigenous estimates in this publication are to be used as a comparator to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life expectancy estimates. The reference year for 2020 national reporting of life expectancy estimates for the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations is 2015–17 (published on 29 November 2018). This source is to be used until the next issue (for the reference year 2020–2022) is released in 2023. |
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: |
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, 2019 Health, Superseded 13/03/2020 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PB a–Better health: close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2021 Health, Standard 03/07/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06–Life expectancy, 2020 Health, Standard 13/03/2020 |