Table of contents

  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Explanatory notes
  • Highlights
  • 1 Introduction
    • 1. 1 Data sources
    • 1. 2 Criteria
    • 1. 3 Data quality
    • 1. 4 Indigenous population
    • 1. 5 Health services for Indigenous women
    • 1. 6 Recent trends in fertility of Indigenous women
    • 1. 7 Antenatal care
    • 1. 8 Maternal medical conditions and complications of pregnancy
  • 9 Future improvements in perinatal data systems
  • 2 Results
    • 2. 1 Birth rates
    • 2. 2 Confinements and births  
    • 2. 3 Place of birth
    • 2. 4 Size of maternity unit
    • 2. 5 Maternal age
    • 2. 6 Maternal parity
    • 2. 7 Marital status
    • 2. 8 Accommodation status in hospital
    • 2. 9 Duration of pregnancy
    • 2.10 Multiple births
    • 2.1 1 Onset of labour
    • 2.12 Presentation at delivery
    • 2.13 Type of delivery
    • 2.14 Mother's length of stay in hospital
    • 2.15 Mother's mode of separation from hospital
    • 2.16 Births to Indigenous mothers
    • 2.17 Infant's sex
    • 2.18 Infant s birthweight
    • 2.19 Apgar scores
    • 2.20 Infant's length of stay in hospital
    • 2.2 1 Infant's mode of separation from hospital
    • 2.22 Fetal deaths
    • 2.23 Neonatal deaths
    • 2.24 Perinatal deaths
  • 3 References
  • Tables
  • Appendix
    • 1 Perinatal data items
    • 2 Definitions