A comparative analysis of indirect methodologies for estimating Indigenous life expectancy
Details:
Title
A comparative analysis of indirect methodologies for estimating Indigenous life expectancy,
Other title
Tony Barnes, Len Smith, Yuejen Zhao and Steven Gurthridge,
Creator
Charles Darwin University. School for Social and Policy Research,
Barnes, Tony,
Smith, Len,
Zhao, Yuejen,
Guthridge, Steven,
Collection
E-Publications,
E-Books,
PublicationNT,
Date
2008-11-01,
Description
Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).,
Notes
Date:2008-11,
Project commissioned by the National Advisory Group on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Information and Data.
Includes references 69 p.,
Table of contents
Introduction -- Methods and data sources - Three methods for estimating Indigenous life expectancy - Implementing the three methods - Data sets used - Analyses undertaken -- Comparison of methods with Australian and NT data -- Analyses undertaken with NT data - Estimates of life expectancy for a wide range of real NT data for 1991-1996 and 1996-2001 - Sensitivity and uncertainty analyses of life expectancy estimates - Impact of changing the method of fitting regression lines - Uncertainty of estimates from the indirect methods -- Comparison of 1996-2001 life expectancy estimates for Indigenous Australians -- Incompleteness and errors in Indigenous population and deaths data -- Discussion, conclusions and recommendations -- Appendices -- Abbreviations -- References.,
Language
English,
Subject
Life expectancy -- Northern Territory,
Statistics -- Northern Territory,
Life expectancy -- Australia,
Statistics -- Australia,
Publisher name
School for Social and Policy Research, Charles Darwin University,
Place of publication
Darwin,
Format
69 p. : col. ills. ; 30 cm.,
File type
application/pdf.,
Copyright owner
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