Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2018) Australia's mothers and babies 2016—in brief, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 26 March 2023.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2018). Australia's mothers and babies 2016—in brief. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia's mothers and babies 2016—in brief. AIHW, 2018.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia's mothers and babies 2016—in brief. Canberra: AIHW; 2018.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2018, Australia's mothers and babies 2016—in brief, AIHW, Canberra.
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Australia’s mothers and babies 2016: in brief presents key statistics and trends on pregnancy and childbirth of mothers, and the characteristics and outcomes of their babies.
This publication is designed to accompany the perinatal data visualisations.
Around 310,200 women gave birth to almost 314,800 babies in 2016
43% of Indigenous mothers smoked during pregnancy in 2016 compared with 50% in 2009
12% of women who gave birth in 2016 had gestational diabetes
1 in 3 mothers had a caesarean section in 2016
23 Oct 2018 - Table D1 updated.
17 Dec 2019 - Footnote (c) of Table 2.43 and footnote (b) of Table 2.44 were updated in the data tables for Australia's mothers and babies 2016 – in brief data tables.
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