PHIDU - Prevalence of Selected Health Risk Factors - Adults (PHA) 2017-2018

This dataset, released January 2020, contains for the years 2017-2018 the Estimated number of people aged 18 years and over with high or very high psychological distress based on the Kessler 10 Scale; Estimated number of people aged 18 years and over who had high blood pressure, overweight and obesity; Smoking (modelled estimates); Alcohol: lifetime risky drinking (modelled estimates); Fruit consumption (modelled estimates); Exercise (modelled estimates). The data is by Population Health Area (PHA) 2016 geographic boundaries based on the 2016 Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS).

Population Health Areas, developed by PHIDU, are comprised of a combination of whole SA2s and multiple (aggregates of) SA2s, where the SA2 is an area in the ABS structure.

For more information please see the data source notes on the data.

Source: Estimates for Population Health Areas (PHAs) are modelled estimates and were produced by the ABS; estimates at the LGA and PHN level were derived from the PHA estimates.

AURIN has spatially enabled the original data. Data that was not shown/not applicable/not published/not available for the specific area ('#', '..', '^', 'np, 'n.a.', 'n.y.a.' in original PHIDU data) was removed.It has been replaced by by Blank cells. For other keys and abbreviations refer to PHIDU Keys.