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released: 6 Aug 1999 author: Day P, Sullivan EA & Lancaster P media release

Provides information on Indigenous mothers and their babies from perinatal data collections for each State and Territory of Australia. For the first time this report presents information on Indigenous mothers and their babies by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission region for the years 1991 to 1996. It also examines demographic and pregnancy factors of Indigenous mothers and the characteristics and outcomes of their babies.

ISSN 1321-8336; ISBN 978 1 74024 008 6; Cat. no. PER 9; 108pp.; OUT OF PRINT

Publication

Publication table of content

  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Highlights
  • 1 Introduction
    • Criteria for Indigenous status
    • Indigenous population
    • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission regions
  • Indigenous status
    • State and Territory perinatal data collections
    • Registration and Census collections
    • Comparisons between data collections
    • Classification of perinatal data by ATSIC region
    • Improvements in data quality
  • Mothers
    • Birth rates
    • Confinements and births
    • Place of birth
    • Size of maternity unit
    • Maternal age
    • Maternal parity
    • Marital status
    • Accommodation status in hospital
    • Duration of pregnancy
    • Multiple births
    • Onset of labour
    • Presentation at delivery
    • Type of delivery
    • Mother's length of stay in hospital
    • Mother's mode of separation from hospital
  • Babies
    • Introduction
    • Births to Indigenous mothers
    • Sex of baby
    • Baby's birthweight
    • Apgar scores
    • Length of stay of babies in hospital
    • Mode of separation of baby from hospital
  • Perinatal mortality
    • Definitions
    • Fetal deaths
    • Neonatal deaths
    • Perinatal deaths
  • ATSIC regions
    • Introduction
    • Confinements and births
    • Maternal age
    • Type of delivery
    • Baby's birthweight
    • Fetal and neonatal deaths
  • Appendix: tables
  • Explanatory notes
  • Glossary
  • References

Recommended citation

Day P, Sullivan EA & Lancaster P 1999. Indigenous mothers and their babies, Australia 1994-1996. Perinatal statistics series no. 8. Cat. no. PER 9. Canberra: AIHW.