Interactive data visualisation: Health service use by age and sex

This interactive data visualisation (Figure 2.10) presents data on health service use by Broad Type of Service (BTOS), age and sex, for humanitarian entrants, other permanent migrants and the rest of the Australian population.

How to interpret the interactive data visualisation

Measures

  • Proportion of the population who received a service: the percentage of people in an age and sex group within each of the population groups who received at least one service in 2021.
  • Rate of services per 1,000 people: the number of services provided in 2021 for people in an age and sex group within each of the population groups per 1,000 people in this population.

The following data visualisation (Figure 2.10) presents a bar chart. There are 3 data filtering elements to choose from:

  • a drop-down menu to filter by BTOS
  • two buttons to filter by a measure, either:
    • Proportion of the population who received a service
    • Rate of services per 1,000 people.
  • a toggle switch to view the data by sex.

Figure 2.10: Health service use by age and sex, 2021

The age-standardised rate of general practitioner services was generally higher for humanitarian entrants compared to the rest of the population.

Notes

  1. ‘Proportion of the population who received a service’ is the number of people who used at least one MBS subsidised service in 2021 out of the total population in that age and sex group.
  2. ‘Rate of services per 1,000 people’ is the number of MBS subsidised services used by the population group with the specified age and sex per 1,000 people in this population in 2021.
  3. Data were not presented and marked as ‘n.p.’ (not published) when suppression was applied to manage confidentiality and when the number of events was not sufficient to produce reliable estimates. For more information on how these data were calculated, see the Technical notes.
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References

Person-Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA), 2021, PLIDA Modular Product, ABS DataLab. Findings based on use of PLIDA data. 

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