Technical notes
About the ABS National Health Survey
This web report contains results from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) National Health Survey (NHS) 2017–18, collected between July 2017 to June 2018.
The 2017–18 NHS is the most recent in a series of Australia-wide health surveys conducted by the ABS. It was designed to collect a range of information about the health of Australians, including:
- prevalence of long-term health conditions
- health risk factors such as smoking, overweight and obesity, alcohol consumption and exercise
- use of health services such as consultations with health practitioners and actions people have recently taken for their health
- demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
The 2017–18 NHS collected data on children and adults living in private dwellings but excluded persons living in non-private dwellings, very remote areas and discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
For further information, refer to the ABS National Health Survey: First Results, 2017–18.
Data quality statement
For more information about the ABS 2017–18 National Health Survey see:
4324.0.55.001 - Microdata: National Health Survey, 2017-18
Data
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