SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
Causes of Death, Australia, 3303.0 focuses on the causes of the 160,909 deaths registered in 2017. This issue provides several articles on particular causes or topics (detailed below), as well as comprehensive data cubes covering all causes of death by key demographics.
Australia's leading causes of death, 2017
This article provides analysis on Australia's leading causes of death, including changes over time, years of potential life lost and differences for males and females.
Leading causes of death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, 2017
Information is also provided on the leading causes of death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including analysis of deaths from non-communicable diseases.
Looking beneath the surface of leading causes
This article outlines additional areas which need to be considered when interpreting leading causes of death data. It highlights details of individual conditions that comprise leading cause groupings, changes in the age structure or distribution of deaths within leading cause groupings and information on the full range of diseases or conditions which are recorded on death certificates.
Deaths due to harmful alcohol consumption in Australia
This article looks at deaths directly attributable to harmful alcohol consumption in Australian in 2017. It also analyses registered deaths which had alcohol mentioned as a contributory factor, including deaths due to injury.
Suicide deaths in Australia
Two articles are provided covering key characteristics of deaths due to intentional self-harm (including age, sex and associated causes of death) and suicide deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Influenza deaths
This article explores the increase in influenza deaths observed in 2017 (including age, state and month of death). It also highlights the most common conditions certified as being a contributory factor to death for those who died of influenza in 2017.
Technical note: Causes of death revisions, 2015 Final Data (release date 26 March, 2019)
The ABS undertakes a revisions process for coroner-certified deaths. This enables the ABS to improve the specificity of causes for these deaths as additional information, including the findings of the coroner, becomes available. This technical note provides a summary of how the revisions process has changed data for the 2015 reference period.
Technical note: Causes of death revisions, 2016 Revised Data (release date 26 March, 2019)
The ABS undertakes a revisions process for coroner-certified deaths. This enables the ABS to improve the specificity of causes for these deaths as additional information, including the findings of the coroner, becomes available. This technical note provides a summary of how the revisions process has changed data for the 2016 reference period.
Technical note: Updates to 2015 and 2016 Suicide Data (release date 26 March, 2019)
This technical note presents final 2015 and revised 2016 suicide data, and outlines how the revisions process has resulted in changes to suicide counts.
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