National Healthcare Agreement: PI 03-Prevalence of overweight and obesity, 2015 QS
Data Quality Statement Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Quality Statement |
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METEOR identifier: | 559138 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 31/01/2017 |
Data quality | |
Institutional environment: | The Australian Health Survey (AHS) and National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS) were collected, processed, and published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The ABS operates within a framework of the Census and Statistics Act 1905 and the Australian Bureau of Statistics Act 1975. These ensure the independence and impartiality from political influence of the ABS, and the confidentiality of respondents. For more information on the institutional environment of the ABS, including the legislative obligations of the ABS, financing and governance arrangements, and mechanisms of scrutiny of ABS operations, please see ABS Institutional Environment on the ABS website, www.abs.gov.au. |
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Timeliness: | The AHS is conducted every three years over a 12 month period. Results from the Core component of the AHS were released in June 2013. The Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (AATSIHS) is conducted over a 12 month period, approximately every 6 years. Results from the Core component of the 2012–13 AATSIHS were released in June 2014. The previous NATSIHS was conducted in 2004–05. |
Accessibility: | See Australian Health Survey: First Results (cat. no. 4364.0.55.001) and Australian Health Survey: Health Service Usage and Health Related Actions (cat. No. 4364.0.55.002) for an overview of results from the National Health Survey (NHS) component of the AHS. See: Australian Health Survey: Updated Results (cat. No. 4364.0.55.003) for results from the Core component of AHS. Other information from this survey is also available on request. The data for NATSIHS are available from the ABS website in the publication Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey: First Results, Australia, 2012-13 (Cat. no. 4727.0.55.001). See Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey: Updated Results (Cat. no. 4727.0.55.006) for results from the Core component of the AATSIHS. Other information from the AATSIHS is also available from the ABS website www.abs.gov.au. |
Interpretability: | Information to aid interpretation of the data is available on the ABS website from the Australian Health Survey: User Guide, 2011-13 (Cat. no. 4363.0.55.001) and the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey: Users' Guide, 2012-13 (Cat. no. 4727.0.55.002). Many health-related issues are closely associated with age; therefore data for this indicator have been age-standardised to the 2001 total Australian population to account for differences in the age structures of the States and Territories. Age standardised rates should be used to assess the relative differences between groups, not to infer the rates that actually exist in the population. Information for the 2015 Report for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population replaces data supplied for the 2014 Report which was based on the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey subset (9300 people) of the full sample (13,000 people). The larger sample size used for the 2015 reporting cycle provides more accurate estimates and allows for analysis at a finer level of disaggregation. For information on how the results compare between the two samples, see Comparison of Results in Australian Health Survey: Updated Results (cat. No. 4364.0.55.003). |
Relevance: | The 2011–13 AHS and 2012–13 NATSIHS collected measured height and weight from persons aged 2 years and over. For the purposes of this indicator, Body Mass Index (BMI) values are derived from measured height and weight information using the formula: weight (kg) / height (m)2. Despite some limitations, BMI is widely used internationally as a relatively straightforward way of measuring overweight and obesity. |
Accuracy: | The AHS was conducted in all States and Territories, excluding very remote areas. Non-private dwellings such as hotels, motels, hospitals, nursing homes and short-stay caravan parks were also not included in the survey. The exclusion of persons usually residing in very remote areas has a small impact on estimates, except for the Northern Territory (NT), where such persons make up approximately 23 per cent of the population. The response rate for the 2011–12 Core component was 82 per cent. Results are weighted to account for non-response. The AATSIHS was conducted in all States and Territories, including very remote areas. Non-private dwellings such as hotels, motels, hospitals, nursing homes and short-stay caravan parks were excluded from the survey. The final response rate for the Core component of the 2012–13 AATSIHS was 80 per cent. Results are weighted to account for non-response. As they are drawn from a sample survey, data for the indicator are subject to sampling error. Sampling error occurs because only a small proportion of the population is used to produce estimates that represent the whole population. Sampling error can be reliably estimated as it is calculated based on the scientific methods used to design surveys. Rates should be considered with reference to their Relative Standard Error (RSE). Estimates with RSEs between 25 per cent and 50 per cent should be used with caution. Estimates with RSEs greater than 50 per cent are generally considered too unreliable for general use. The following comments apply to data for the general and non-Indigenous populations only.
The following comments apply to data for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population:
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Coherence: | The methods used to construct the indicator are consistent and comparable with other collections and with international practise. Most surveys, including Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) health surveys conducted by the States and Territories, collect only self-reported height and weight. There is a general tendency across the population for people to overestimate height and underestimate weight, which results in BMI scores based on self-reported height and weight to be lower than BMI scores based on measured height and weight. Therefore, NHS and NATSIHS data for 2004–05 are not comparable with 2011–13 data which are based on measured height and weight. The age- and sex-specific cutoff points for BMI categories for children are from the work of Cole TJ, Bellizzi MC, Flegal KM & Dietz WH 2000, Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey, BMJ 320:1240. The AHS collected a range of other health-related information that can be analysed in conjunction with BMI. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 03-Prevalence of overweight and obesity, 2014 QS Health!, Superseded 14/01/2015 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 03-Prevalence of overweight and obesity, 2017 QS Health!, Standard 31/01/2017 |
Indicators linked to this Data Quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 03-Prevalence of overweight and obesity, 2015 Health!, Superseded 08/07/2016 |