Table of contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Highlights
- 1 Introduction
- Criteria for Indigenous status
- Indigenous population
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission regions
- Indigenous status
- State and Territory perinatal data collections
- Registration and Census collections
- Comparisons between data collections
- Classification of perinatal data by ATSIC region
- Improvements in data quality
- Mothers
- Birth rates
- Confinements and births
- Place of birth
- Size of maternity unit
- Maternal age
- Maternal parity
- Marital status
- Accommodation status in hospital
- Duration of pregnancy
- Multiple births
- Onset of labour
- Presentation at delivery
- Type of delivery
- Mother's length of stay in hospital
- Mother's mode of separation from hospital
- Babies
- Introduction
- Births to Indigenous mothers
- Sex of baby
- Baby's birthweight
- Apgar scores
- Length of stay of babies in hospital
- Mode of separation of baby from hospital
- Perinatal mortality
- Definitions
- Fetal deaths
- Neonatal deaths
- Perinatal deaths
- ATSIC regions
- Introduction
- Confinements and births
- Maternal age
- Type of delivery
- Baby's birthweight
- Fetal and neonatal deaths
- Appendix: tables
- Explanatory notes
- Glossary
- References