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released: 30 Apr 2003

This report outlines, in broad terms, the concepts that underpin the compilation of national data on expenditure on health and welfare services in Australia, and the sources of data that are used in compiling those estimates.The AIHW is seeking to improve the general level of understanding of the different data sources used in deriving the estimates of expenditure on health and welfare services. This, in turn, could contribute to improvements in the timeliness, accuracy and relevance of the data.

ISBN 978 1 74024 264 6; Cat. no. HWE 23; 84pp.; INTERNET ONLY

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Australian National Health and Welfare Accounts

Concepts and data sources

Full publication (621K PDF)

  • Preliminary material (58K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction
  • Chapters
    1. History of health and welfare services expenditure data development in Australia (62K PDF)
      • Health expenditure data development
        • Early development of the Australian health expenditure matrix
        • Commonwealth Department of health
        • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
      • Welfare services expenditure data development
    2. A conceptual framework for the national health and welfare services accounts (235K PDF)
      • Introduction
      • The national accounts
        • Gross domestic product (GDP)
        • Production boundaries
        • Sector classification
        • Purpose, industry and goods and services classifications
        • Financing classifications
        • The problem of output valuation
        • Tax expenditures
        • GDP and welfare
      • Satellite accounts
        • Rearrangement of main accounts information
        • Extension of main accounts information
        • Revaluation of main accounts information
    3. Australia's approach to national health and welfare services accounts - OECD classification systems (126K PDF)
      • System of Health Accounts
      • Social expenditures (SOCX) database
      • Conclusions
    4. Data sources (369K PDF)
      • Framework for reporting health and welfare services expenditure
      • Health expenditure data sources
      • Government funding
        • Commonwealth Government
        • State and territory governments
        • Local governments
      • Non-government funding
        • Health insurance funds
        • Individuals
        • Other
      • Data sources for particular types of health expenditure
        • Public (non-psychiatric) hospitals
        • Private hospitals
        • Public (psychiatric) hospitals
        • High-level residential aged care
        • Ambulance services
        • Medical services
        • Dental services
        • Other professional services
        • Health promotion and illness prevention
      • Welfare services expenditure data sources
        • Government funding
        • Non-government funding
        • Tax expenditures
  • End matter (120K PDF)
    • Appendix
    • Abbreviations
    • Glossary
    • References

Recommended citation

AIHW 2003. Australian national health and welfare accounts: concepts and data sources. Cat. no. HWE 23. Canberra: AIHW.