Australia's notifiable diseases status, 1999: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System

This article published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 25, No 4, November 2001 contains the 1999 annual report of National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. This annual report is available as 32 HTML documents and is also available in PDF format.

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The following tables display the completeness of data received in NNDSS from States and Territories in 1999 and the population totals for States and Territories in 1999. If you are not able to access these data please e-mail cdi.editor@health.gov.au

Appendix 3. Completeness of data received in NNDSS from States and Territories in 1999

Field
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Total
No. missing age
0
21
41
3
1
0
172
18
256
% complete for age
100
99.9
98.9
100
100
100
99.2
99.8
99.7
No. missing sex
2
334
21
8
0
0
414
1
780
% complete for sex
99.8
98.6
99.4
100
100
100
98
100
99.1


Appendix 4. Population totals for States and Territories, 1999*

State
Population
ACT
313,346
NSW
6,411,680
NT
192,882
Qld
3,512,356
SA
1,493,074
Tas
470,261
Vic
4,712,173
WA
1,861,016
Australia
18,966,788

* Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics mid-year population estimates


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 25, No 4, November 2001.

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