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Data quality statement

The data quality statement underpinning deaths can be found in the following Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publications:

The data quality statement underpinning the 2016 Census of Population and Housing can be found in the ABS publication, Census of Population and Housing: Understanding the Census and Census Data, Australia, 2016 (ABS cat. no. 2900.0).

Acknowledgements

This report was prepared by Christopher Rompotis, Sophie Ottaviano, Bina Gubhaju and Claudia Slimings of the Cancer & Screening Linkage & Data Development Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare under the direction of Sally Rayner, Justin Harvey, Kirsten Morgan and Amy Young. Johanna Wilson provided analytical support.

We gratefully acknowledge feedback on earlier drafts and the methodology from Melanoma Institute Australia and the Roadmap committees. We would like to extend a particular acknowledgement to Peter Baade, Katy Bell, Jeffrey Chen, Louisa Collins, Anne Cust, Mary-Ann El Sharouni, Rachel Neale, Nhung Nghiem, Catherine Olsen, Sallie Pearson and Caroline Watts who provided expert review on earlier drafts of the report.

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing funded this project.