Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | PI 06–Life expectancy, 2017 |
METEOR identifier: | 630002 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 30/01/2018 |
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Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2017) Health!, Superseded 30/01/2018 |
Outcome area: | Prevention Health!, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2017 QS Health!, Standard 31/01/2017 |
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 indicator 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: | 2013–15—State and territory, by:
2010–12 (previously supplied)—State and territory, by:
2010–12 (previously supplied)—Nationally, by:
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Comments: | Most recent data available for 2017 National Healthcare Agreement performance reporting:
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. |
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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Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Benchmark: | PB a-Close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2017 |
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 18 November 2015 http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=6442467990 |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06–Life expectancy, 2016 Health!, Superseded 31/01/2017 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06–Life expectancy, 2018 Health!, Superseded 19/06/2019 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PB a–Better health: close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2017 Health!, Superseded 30/01/2018 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 07–Infant and young child mortality rate, 2017 Health!, Superseded 30/01/2018 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 08–Major causes of death, 2017 Health!, Superseded 30/01/2018 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16–Potentially avoidable deaths, 2017 Health!, Superseded 30/01/2018 See also National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 01-Estimated life expectancy at birth, 2018 Indigenous, Superseded 31/07/2018 |