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Ranking of Deaths and top 50 causes, 2001
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Ranking of Deaths and top 50 causes, 2001
Definition
Deaths registered anywhere in Australia to people who had their usual place of residence in Victoria in 2001.
Interpretation
The grand total of deaths in the Regions is equal to the total deaths observed and reported by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for Victoriia in 2001 but the deaths reported reflect the expected cause of death pattern over the five-year period 1997 to 2001. Hence the numbers of deaths reported in this study; for a particular disease; or an area; may differ somewhat from the reported ABS 2001 death statistics; but not the total number of deaths from any cause for Victoria as a whole. This is useful to identify the most important causes of deaths in a population and used in the calculation of YLL. In accordance with Victorian privacy legislation; deaths are not provided at LGA level.
Methodology
Five years of deaths data were used in the calculation of expected deaths in order to reduce the problem that the small number of deaths for individual diseases in each area can fluctuate from year to year. The Australian Bureau of Statistics provided death data for the years 1997-2001; being the most recently completed set of coded data for a five year period when these estimates were being calculated. For each IRSED/remoteness combination; by cause of death and sex; standardised rates were calculated and compared to Victoria for 2001. These rate ratios by disease and sex were then imposed on the 2001 population in each SLA and summed to larger geographic areas. We only present the top 50 of deaths in each Region for all age groups combined.
 
 
Last updated: 02 November 2020
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