Life expectancy at birth of Indigenous Australians was 67.2 years for men and 72.9 years for women for 2005–2007, according to experimental figures released by the ABS. The ABS reported that the life expectancy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men is 11.5 years lower than for non-Indigenous men, while life expectancy of Indigenous women...

The National Health Survey of 2007-08 examines the key health issues in Australia. Some of the key health risk factors highlighted in this report are obesity, alcohol consumption and smoking. Overweight and Obesity More adult Australians were overweight or obese in 2007-08 compared with 1995. The 2007-08 National Health Survey has for the first time...

This report provides summary results of the monthly Labour Force Survey containing estimates of employed and unemployed persons classified by sex, full-time/part-time status, states and territories and some age groups; and persons not in the labour force. The main findings include the surprising result that the unemployment rate decreases to 5.4% in April 2009 (seasonally...

The statistics in this publication relate to government and non-government schools, students and school staff, and were collected through the non-finance National Schools Statistics Collection (NSSC), which was established through the work of the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA). For more detailed information about the structure and scope of the...

A statistical summary of diabetes in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, including comparison to the non-Indigenous population. In 2004–05 the Australian Bureau of Statistics conducted two nation-wide health surveys: the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey and the National Health Survey. These surveys were designed to enable comparisons between the health...