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AIHW online data collections and resources

Body weight data sources in Australia
Data about body weight, particularly data about overweight and obesity, are of great interest to health researchers and program managers.
Cancer data
Cancer incidence data are available in the ACIM books and cancer data cubes. Mortality data are available in the ACIM books and GRIM books. Hospital separations data are available in the national hospital morbidity data cubes.
Children's headline indicators
Defined indicators and available data (12 of the 19 Children's Headline Indicators). Detailed information on each Headline Indicator priority area is available in  A picture of Australia's children 2009.
Chronic disease indicators
This database is a catalogue of existing national indicators relevant to chronic disease. It has been developed by the AIHW Population Health Unit under the MOU with the Department of Health and Ageing.
Catalogue of holdings of AIHW data
The Catalogue of holdings of AIHW data is an online searchable catalogue of a selection of data held by the Institute for statistical purposes. The Catalogue does not cover the full range of Institute data holdings; further holdings may be added to future editions of the Catalogue.
Disability data cubes
Disability data cubes provide access to data currently held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The data are displayed in multidimensional data cubes that can be interrogated by using the drop down menus. Data cubes available are subsets of data from the Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement National Minimum Data Set (CSTDA NMDS) collection for people with a disability during 2006-07, 2005-06, 2004-05, 2003-04 and on snapshot days in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002.
General practice data
General practice activity from the Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) program. BEACH is a continuous survey of encounters between general practitioners and patients across Australia. The tables show the distribution (%) of problems managed at GP-patient encounters classified to body systems according to the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-2).
GRIM books
The AIHW has compiled long-term mortality data on selected causes of death by age and sex for each year from the beginning of the 20th century, called the GRIM (General Record of Incidence of Mortality) books. These Excel workbooks are updated annually and contain comprehensive long-term mortality data on selected causes of death by age and sex for each year.
Expenditure data
Links to data tables and data cubes containing detailed health expenditure and public health expenditure information.
Fixing Houses for Better Health (FHBH) data cubes
Fixing Houses for Better Health (FHBH) data cubes list
Hospitals data
The AIHW publishes hospitals data cubes and spreadsheets based on a number of data collections: Principal Diagnosis; Diagnosis related group (AR-DRG); Procedures; Elective Surgery Waiting Times (NESWTDC); Public hospital establishments database (NPHED) .
Alcohol and other drugs (AODT-NMDS) data cubes
The Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set (AODTS-NMDS) is a nationally agreed set of common data items collected by government-funded service providers for clients registered for alcohol and other drug treatment. This national collection is a subset of the information on alcohol and other drug treatment services that is routinely collected by States and Territories to monitor treatment services within their jurisdictions.
Mental health data cubes
Mental health data cubes contain information on patients admitted to hospital who receive specialised psychiatric care, client episodes in government-operated residential mental health care services and client contacts with government-operated specialised community mental health care services and hospital-based ambulatory care services, such as outpatient and day clinics (for definitions, see the AIHW publication Mental health services in Australia). The variables included in the data cubes are year of collection, sex, age group, mental health legal status, principal diagnosis and, for admitted patients only, hospital type, type of separation and same day separation flag. The admitted patients cubes present information on the numbers of psychiatric care days and patient days as well as the number of separations.
METeOR, AIHW's Metadata Online Registry
METeOR is Australia’s repository for national metadata standards for health, housing and community services statistics and information.
National indicator catalogue
This database is a catalogue of national indicators relevant to Australian national reporting on the health, housing and community services sectors.
National public hospital establishments database (NPHED)
The National public hospital establishments database (NPHED) is compiled from data supplied by the state and territory health authorities. It is a collection of electronic records for public hospitals within Australia. All records are based on information collected for financial years.
Risk factor prevalence data
Data on the prevalence of a number of risk factors is presented in a series of spreadsheets. Risk factors included are: high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, body weight, physical inactivity, smoking and alcohol consumption. Data includes age-specific rates, age-standardised rates, and some trends.
Workforce data
The workforce online data tables and data cube pages contains links to a number of detailed tables of data and data cubes on Australia's health and community services labour forces. These tables and data cubes are compiled by the Institute from data supplied by the state and territory medical boards and health authorities, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The publications associated with these tables may also be downloaded in full from these links.

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