National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06–Life expectancy, 2019
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Indicator |
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Indicator type:![]() | Indicator |
Short name:![]() | PI 06–Life expectancy, 2019 |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 698928 |
Registration status:![]() | Health!, Superseded 13/03/2020 |
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Indicator set:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement (2019) Health!, Superseded 13/03/2020 |
Outcome area:![]() | Prevention Health!, Standard 07/07/2010 |
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:![]() | 2015–17—State and territory, by:
2015–17—Nationally, by (not reported):
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Comments:![]() | Most recent data available for 2019 National Healthcare Agreement performance reporting: 2015–17. 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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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. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06–Life expectancy, 2018 Health!, Superseded 19/06/2019 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06–Life expectancy, 2020 Health!, Standard 13/03/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PB a–Better health: close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation, 2019 Health!, Superseded 13/03/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 07–Infant and young child mortality rate, 2019 Health!, Superseded 13/03/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 08–Major causes of death, 2019 Health!, Superseded 13/03/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16–Potentially avoidable deaths, 2019 Health!, Superseded 13/03/2020 See also National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 01-Estimated life expectancy at birth, 2020 Indigenous, Standard 23/08/2019 |