Target 2

Measures

• Number of babies born with a healthy birthweight (between 2,500 and 4,499 grams.


• Proportion (%) of babies born with a healthy birthweight (between 2,500 and 4,499 grams, by Indigenous status and over time.

Available by

Baby’s Indigenous status: First Nations, non-Indigenous.

Data periods

• 2019–2021


• Time trend data: 5-year period (2017 to 2021)

Data source(s)

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) analysis of the National Perinatal Data Collection (NPDC) (AIHW 2023a, 2023b).

Region types

• Main structures: Australia, states and territories, Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4).


• Indigenous structures: Indigenous Regions (IREG).

Suppression

• Suppression Percentages with a numerator of less than 5 have been suppressed for confidentiality reasons. Consequential suppression has also been applied where required to prevent back-calculation.


• Data have been suppressed if the denominator for the percentage was less than 100, due to concerns about the reliability of percentages based on small denominator.

Notes

• Data relate to live births. Data excludes multiple births, stillbirths and births of less than 20 weeks gestation. Births both less than 20 weeks gestation and less than 400 grams birthweight are not included in the NPDC.


• Healthy birthweight is defined as babies who weighed between 2,500 and 4,499 grams at birth.


• Indigenous status is based on the baby’s Indigenous status.


• Birthweight data on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander babies born to mothers residing in the ACT should be viewed with caution as they are based on small numbers of births.


• Data are by geographic area of usual residence of the mother.


• 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 SA4. Includes Australian non-residents, residents of external territories and records where state/territory of residence was not stated.


• In the NPDC, data for 2019, 2020 and 2021 are based on the 2016 ASGS. For this analysis, SA2 were concorded to IREG before being aggregated. Data were aggregated and apportioned to the reported region types.

Measure

Proportion (%) of First Nations babies who were born preterm (with a gestational age of less than 37 weeks).

Data period

2019–2021

Data source

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) analysis of the National Perinatal Data Collection (NPDC) (AIHW 2023a, 2023b).

Region types

• Main structures: Australia, states and territories, Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4).


• Indigenous structures: Indigenous Regions (IREG).

Suppression

• Suppression Percentages with a numerator of less than 5 have been suppressed for confidentiality reasons. Consequential suppression has also been applied where required to prevent back-calculation.


• Data have been suppressed if the denominator for the percentage was less than 100, due to concerns about the reliability of percentages based on small denominator.

Notes

• Data relate to live births. Data excludes multiple births, stillbirths and births of less than 20 weeks gestation. Births both less than 20 weeks gestation and less than 400 grams birthweight are not included in the National Perinatal Data Collection.


• The denominator for the percentages excludes babies gestational age was not stated.


• Indigenous status is based on the baby’s Indigenous status.


• 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 SA4.


• In the NPDC, data for 2019, 2020 and 2021 are based on the 2016 ASGS. For this analysis, SA2 were concorded to IREG before being aggregated. Data were aggregated and apportioned to the reported region types.