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