Table of contents

  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Explanatory notes
  • Highlights
  • 1 Introduction
    • Data sources
    • Perinatal minimum data set and definitions
    • Criteria
    • Data quality
    • Scope of report
  • 2 Results
    • 2.1 Introductory notes
    • 2.2 Confinements and births
    • 2.3 Place of birth
    • 2.4 Size of maternity unit
    • 2.5 Maternal age
    • 2.6 Maternal parity
    • 2.7 Marital status
    • 2.8 Aboriginality
    • 2.9 Maternal country of birth
    • 2.10 Status in hospital
    • 2.11 Duration of pregnancy
    • 2.12 Multiple pregnancy
    • 2.13 Onset of labour
    • 2.14 Presentation at birth
    • 2.15 Type of delivery
    • 2.16 Perineal repair after delivery
    • 2.17 Mother's length of stay in hospital
    • 2.18 Mother's mode of separation from hospital
    • 2.19 Infant's birth status
    • 2.20 Infant's month of birth
    • 2.21 Infant's sex
    • 2.22 Infant's gestational age
    • 2.23 Infant's birthweight
    • 2.24 Apgar scores
    • 2.25 Resuscitation at birth
    • 2.26 Infant's length of stay in hospital
    • 2.27 Infant's mode of separation from hospital
  • 3 Perinatal mortality
    • 3.1 Definitions
    • 3.2 Trends in fetal, neonatal and perinatal deaths
    • 3.3 Perinatal deaths by State and Territory of residence
    • 3.4 Perinatal deaths by maternal age
    • 3.5 Perinatal deaths by plurality
    • 3.6 Perinatal deaths by infant's sex
    • 3.7 Proportionate perinatal death rates by gestational age
    • 3.8 Proportionate perinatal death rates by birthweight
    • 3.9 Birthweight-specific fetal, neonatal and perinatal deaths in Australia
    • 3.10 Fetal deaths in State and Territory perinatal data collections
  • 4 References
  • Tables
  • Appendix
    • Definitions