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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

Check within Publication or with content Publisher.,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/214160,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/214160

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