Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 The data
      • Mortality Extract Data set (MED)
      • Death registration
      • Residential aged care data
      • National Hospital Morbidity Data set
      • National Perinatal Data Collection
      • The collection and recording of Indigenous status information across data sets
    • 3 The method
      • The linkage process
      • Method of enhancing information on Indigenous status obtained from linked data set
      • Numerator-denominator bias
    • 4 Results of the linkage process
    • 5 Discussion
    • Conclusions
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: The data sources
      • Appendix B: Setting up the Mortality Extract Data set
      • Appendix C: Developing the ‘pass’ structures and the validation study
      • Appendix D: The linkage processes
      • Appendix E: Classification of excellent, good and acceptable matches
      • Appendix F: Life expectancy at birth, calendar years 2001 to 2005, for NSW, Qld, WA, NT and Australia, with 95% confidence lower and higher limits
    • References
    • Glossary
    • List of tables
    • List of figures