Notes
Amendments
6 Aug 2019 - deleted an incorrect statement relating to the methods used to produce life expectancy estimates.
Improving Indigenous identification in mortality estimates
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Topic: First Nations people
Citation
AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2019) Improving Indigenous identification in mortality estimates, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 19 April 2024.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). Improving Indigenous identification in mortality estimates. Canberra: AIHW.
MLA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Improving Indigenous identification in mortality estimates. AIHW, 2019.
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Improving Indigenous identification in mortality estimates. Canberra: AIHW; 2019.
Harvard
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2019, Improving Indigenous identification in mortality estimates, AIHW, Canberra.
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Measuring progress on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and welfare outcomes relies on consistent, complete, and reliable identification of Indigenous Australians in key data collections.
Incomplete and inconsistent reporting of Indigenous identification occurs through a combination of Indigenous misclassification by data providers at the point of data collection, and Indigenous people choosing not to identify as Indigenous in certain circumstances.
This report provides an overview of AIHW work on improving Indigenous identification, particularly in enhancing mortality estimation through statistical data linkage.
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-551-2
- Cat. no: IHW 215
- Pages: 32
Findings from this report:
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In 2001–2005, about 12.9% of male and 15.3% of female Indigenous death registrations were misclassified
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In 2006–2010, about 15.3% of male and 15.0% of female Indigenous death registrations were misclassified
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In 2011–2015, about 15.9% of male and 15.5% of female Indigenous death registrations were misclassified
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Not adjusting for misclassified deaths would have inflated Indigenous male life expectancy at birth by 2.1–2.6 years