Australian Mortality Census Explorer

Alan Whitelock-Jones
23 August 2015

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Data

Based on data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics

Combines

  • The population profile from 2011 Census
  • 2011 deaths by age, sex and census district

Purpose

  • To browse the relationship of Census variables on mortality

More Data

The Australian Census groupings:

  • 21,507,717 people but some excluded due to not living in geographical areas (at sea, armed forces etc), leaving 21,455,713
  • 54,805 Statistical Level Area 1s (SA1's). Boundaries chosen to separate non-homegenous areas.
  • 2,214 SA2's reduced to 2,193 for non-geographies
  • Various geographical aggregations: Adminstrative, Electoral,…
  • States and Territories
  • Whole of Australia

This analysis is done at SA2 level, whereby differences in mortality between different SA2s are compared to a sample of variables available in the Basic Community Profile

Mortality

The expected deaths in each SA2 were calculated by considering the numbers dying in each age band separately for each sex for the whole country and allocating these to the SA2s in proportion to their populations split by age and sex.

plot of chunk Plot_Deaths

Analysis

The sample plot below shows how by grouping SA2's by Income and Proportion of the population that has finished school we can see the impact of these variables on mortality.

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