Table of contents

  • Preliminary material (247KB PDF)
    • Title and verso pages
    • Foreword
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary
      • Overall
      • States and territories
      • Remoteness areas
    • Recommendations
  • Body section (297KB PDF)
    1. Background
      • 1.1 This report
      • 1.2 Previous projects
        • The 1998 pilot project
        • The 2005 Indigenous identification project
      • 1.3 Indications of Indigenous status data quality
        • Indigenous status reporting, 2006–07
        • Changes in Indigenous status reporting 2002–03 to 2006–07
    2. The Indigenous identification quality project
      • 2.1 Introduction
      • 2.2 The Indigenous identification audit
        • Project organisation
        • Ethics approval
      • 2.3 ACT Hospital Data Linkage Project
        • Project organisation
        • Ethics approval
    3. Method
      • 3.1 Introduction
      • 3.2 The Indigenous identification audit
        • Method
        • Sampling strategy
        • Completeness and correction factors
        • Weighting
        • Confidence intervals
      • 3.3 ACT Hospital Data Linkage Project
        • Method
        • Selection of patients
    4. Results
      • 4.1 Study results
        • The Indigenous identification audit
        • Audit results by remoteness area
        • ACT Hospital Data Linkage Project
      • 4.2 Estimated Indigenous identification levels in hospital admissions data
        • Indigenous identification audit
        • ACT Hospital Data Linkage project
        • Overall
      • 4.3 Discussion
        • States and territories
        • Remoteness areas
        • Estimated correction factors
        • Remoteness areas
    5. Recommendations
      • 5.1 Amendments to the analysis guidelines
      • 5.2 Summary of data analysis guidelines and recommendations
        • Data analysis guidelines
        • Summary of recommendations for improving Indigenous identification in separations data
  • End matter