ACT Women Smoking During Pregnancy by Age 2004-2015

ACT Government Open Data provides the proportion of resident women who smoked during pregnancy, segmented by age, from 2004 to 2015. The data originates from the ACT Health Maternal Perinatal Data Collection and the AIHW National Perinatal Data Collection. Specific row and column counts are unavailable.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in the proportion of pregnant smokers by age cohort over the 2004-2015 period.
• Model the relationship between maternal age and smoking prevalence during pregnancy for ACT residents.
• Benchmark ACT Health's smoking during pregnancy metrics against other jurisdictions using age-stratified data.

Strengths

• Data covers a 12-year time range from 2004 to 2015.
• Sourced from authoritative health collections: ACT Health Maternal Perinatal Data and AIHW National Perinatal Data.

Limitations

• Dataset scale is undefined; row counts and specific features are unknown.
• Data is unpublished from the primary source, which may limit transparency on collection methodology.

Provenance

Source

ACT Health, Epidemiology Section and Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

Collection Method

Combined unpublished data from the ACT Maternal Perinatal Data Collection and published data from the AIHW National Perinatal Data Collection.

Time Range

2004 to 2015.

Freshness

Metadata was last updated in March 2026, though the underlying data covers up to 2015.

Geography

Australian Capital Territory (ACT).