Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | PI 06-Life expectancy, 2014 |
METEOR identifier: | 517676 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
Description: | The average number of years a person could expect to live if they experienced the age/sex specific death rates that applied at their birth throughout their lifetime. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2014) Health!, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
Outcome area: | Primary and Community Health Health!, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2014 QS Health!, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | 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:
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Computation: | 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. |
Numerator: | 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: | 2010–12—State and territory, by:
2005–07 (revised), 2010–12—State and territory, by:
2010–12—Nationally, by:
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Comments: | Most recent data available for 2014 Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council (CRC) report:
Indigenous estimates of life expectancy are not produced for Vic, SA, Tas or ACT due to the small number of Indigenous deaths reported in these jurisdictions. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Mean (average) |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Time (e.g. days, hours) |
Format: | NN.N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Deaths Effectiveness |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
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Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Final, the measure meets the intention of the indicator. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Reference documents: | 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 16 April 2014 http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=6442467990. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2013 Health!, Superseded 30/04/2014 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2015 Health!, Superseded 08/07/2016 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PB a-Better health: close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2014 Health!, Superseded 14/01/2015 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 07-Infant and young child mortality rate, 2014 Health!, Superseded 14/01/2015 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 08-Major causes of death, 2014 Health!, Superseded 14/01/2015 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-Potentially avoidable deaths, 2014 Health!, Superseded 14/01/2015 See also National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 01-Estimated life expectancy at birth, 2015 Indigenous, Superseded 18/11/2015 |