Description
Number of liveborn babies born to Indigenous mothers.
Data source
National Perinatal Data Collection (NPDC) for the 3 year period 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2018 (2016–2018)
Region types reported
Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) 2016 regions: Indigenous Regions (IREG), States and Territories, Australia
Suppression rules
Numbers less than 5 have been suppressed for confidentiality reasons. Consequential suppression has also been applied where required to prevent back-calculation.
Notes
The data associated with each record in the NPDC include the Statistical Areas Level 2 (SA2) of residence of the mother. The SA2 variable was used to aggregate and concord data as necessary to IREG, and States and Territories.
In the NPDC, data for 2016 are based on the 2011 ASGS, while data for 2017 and 2018 are based on the 2016 ASGS. For this analysis, 2016 data for SA2 were concorded from 2011 to 2016 ASGS boundaries before being aggregated with 2017 and 2018 SA2 data. These data were aggregated and apportioned to the reported region types.
Reference material
AIHW 2020. Australia's mothers and babies 2018—in brief. Cat. no. PER 108. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 24 June 2020.
AIHW 2020. National Perinatal Data Collection, 2018: Quality Statement. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 24 June 2020.