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 containing comprehensive long-term mortality data on selected causes of death by age and sex for each year.
The GRIM books have been grouped together by chapters as adopted by the 10th Revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10). Each workbook contains mortality data, population data, derived data items (e.g. age-specific and age-standardised rates), summary measures (e.g. mean age at death, potential years of life lost, and lifetime risk of dying), birth cohort information and graphs.
The workbooks have been set up to enable mortality data to be analysed over specific time periods. All workbooks contain the latest mortality data available to the Institute, presently for the year 2007. The initial year of data for each cause of death varies according to its availability. More recent data have been released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics— see Causes of Death, Australia (ABS Catalogue number 3303.0).
The GRIM books allow users to set limits by age groups and years, and select population standards. Users can also generate, copy and print summary tables for summary measures such as average annual rates of change, aggregated age-specific rates, risk of dying and potential years of life lost.
The GRIM Books are currently available as: