Koori Health Research Database life expectancy dataset

This collection is exported from the Koori Health Research Database. It contains data for the purpose of basic demographic survival analysis and life expectancy calculations. The exported data includes for each person in the database:

person's name, gender and identifiying database number

counts of children and marriages

flag indicating dead or alive

calculations of age (separate data provided whether dead or alive) in years at last birthday and total days

underlying dates of birth and death including indicators of certainty, and date estimates as a date, a julian day, and decade

id, name and birth/death date of the persons mother and father

Depending on the access rights granted to recipients of this collection, this data may be:

anonymised to prevent identification of individuals;

a subset of the total population suitable for the family group and/or individual recipient;

The contents of this output collection include:

a tab delimited file containing a heading row, and one row per person, tab delimited, for import into the researcher's analytical tool of choice

a codebook showing the distinct values for each field in the file (one text file per field)

a readme file providing a detailed description of the contents of each field