ACT Maternal Smoking Rates by Indigenous Status 2004-2015

Proportion of women in the Australian Capital Territory who smoked during pregnancy, segmented by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status. Data spans three-year periods from 2004–06 to 2013–15, sourced from the ACT Health Maternal Perinatal Data Collection and AIHW National Perinatal Data Collection.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in the proportion of women who smoked during pregnancy across three-year periods to assess public health interventions.
• Compare smoking rates between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status groups to identify health disparities.
• Model the relationship between maternal smoking proportions and time periods for demographic-specific health reporting.

Strengths

• Data aggregated into three-year periods to address small annual sample sizes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
• Temporal coverage spans 12 years from 2004–06 to 2013–15.
• Sourced from two authoritative collections: ACT Health Maternal Perinatal Data and AIHW National Perinatal Data.

Limitations

• Small annual counts for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in the ACT necessitated three-year aggregation, limiting annual trend analysis.
• Dataset scope is restricted to the Australian Capital Territory, not nationally representative.
• Specific row counts, column details, and sample sizes are unavailable for assessing dataset scale.

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Combined unpublished data from the ACT Maternal Perinatal Data Collection and published data from the AIHW National Perinatal Data Collection.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

2004–06 to 2013–15.

Freshness

Data covers periods up to 2013-15; metadata was last updated in March 2026.

Geography

Australian Capital Territory (ACT).