Table 33. Characteristics of women born in 1921-26 in each GP service use profile group at Survey 6 (when aged 85-90) Characteristics Mortality 269 (28%) Infrequent User 385 (4%) Later Mortality 3,083 (32%) Frequent GP Service users 1,927 (20%) Regular GP Service users 1,541 (16%) Attrition at Survey 6 Survey returned Deaths 7 (0.3%) 2,607 (99.5%) 55 (14.5%) 85 (22.4%) 598 (20.0%) 1,627 (54.3%) 1,047 (55.4%) 10 (0.5%) 1,034 (66.5%) 0 (0.0%) Area Major City Inner regional regional Remote/Very Remote 3 (43%) 4 (57%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 28 (52%) 18 (33%) 6 (11%) 5 (4%) 257 (43%) 205 (34%) 115 (19%) 21 (4%) 549 (52%) 339 (32%) 143 (14%) 16 (5%) 443 (43%) 397 (38%) 171 (17%) 22 (2%) Education Up to Yr12 Post-schooling 4 (67%) 2 (33%) 43 (83%) 9 (17%) 457 (79%) 123 (21%) 831 (83%) 175 (17%) 751 (76%) 237 (24%) Manage on income Impossible/difficult Not too bad/Easy 0 (0%) 7 (100%) 8 (15%) 47 (85%) 97 (17%) 486 (83%) 208 (20%) 829 (80 %) 132 (13%) 894 (87%) Health care card status No Yes 4 (57%) 3 (43%) 13 (24%) 42 (77%) 173 (29%) 419 (71%) 249 (24%) 783 (76%) 313 (31%) 713 (69%) Note: the Early Mortality group cannot be characterised because they were almost all deceased at Survey 6.
GROUP M12, SUBGROUP 1-In a telehealth eligible area or at an eligible Aboriginal Medical Service 10983 GROUP M12, SUBGROUP 2-At a residential aged care facility 10984 Specialist items: GROUP A3 – specialist attendances 99, 113 GROUP A4 – consultant physician 112, 114 A28 – geriatric medicine – consultant physician or specialist 149 A8 – consultant psychiatrist attendances 288 GROUP A12 – consultant occupational physician attendances 384, 389 GROUP A24, SUBGROUP 1 – pain medicine attendances 2799, 2820 A24, SUBGROUP 3 – palliative medicine attendances 3003, 3015 GROUP A26 – neurosurgery attendances 6004, 6016 T6 – anaesthesia 17609 Obstetrics: GROUP T4 – Obstetrics 16399 Miscellaneous items: GROUP T1 – miscellaneous therapeutic procedures SUBGROUP 3 – assisted reproductive services 13210
Appendix E: Survey questions This appendix includes the survey questions used in this report. Area of residence The Accessibility/Remoteness of Australia, 2003 version (ARIA+) was developed by the National Key Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GISCA) to measure the remoteness of a location based on road distances to service centres (). ARIA+ scores range from 0 to 15, from which 5 categories are defined (Table 11-1). Table 111 Remoteness Areas for Australia and corresponding ARIA+ scores Category ARIA+ score city 0 – 0.20 Inner regional Australia >0.20 – 2.40 Outer regional Australia >2.40 – 5.95 Remote Australia >5.92 – 10.53 Very remote Australia (other) >10.53 In ALSWH, participant addresses are coded to ARIA+; the Study’s implementation of the earlier version of ARIA+, known as ARIA, is reported in the 2000 ALSWH Technical Report (). Where only 4 ARIA+ categories are used, Remote refers to Remote Australia and Very remote Australia. Area of residence was estimated from one question in the Census: “Where does the person usually live?” The of Usual Residence is defined by the Census as “the place where a person lived or intended to live for a total of six months or more in 2011” (). The respondent provides their full address, indicates “none” for no usual address, or “Other country”. Highest educational attainment Highest educational attainment was determined from the following questions in ALSWH. “What is the highest qualification you have completed?” This question was asked in Survey 1 for the 1921-26 cohort, Surveys 1 and 6 of the 1946-51 cohort, and all surveys of the 1973-78 cohort. Table 11-2 shows the response options and groupings for analyses for this question.