Tony Barnes, Len Smith, Yuejen Zhao and Steven Gurthridge

Made available by the Northern Territory Library via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).Introduction -- Methods and data sources - Three methods for estimating Indigenous life expectancy - Implementing the three methods - Data sets used - Analyses undertaken -- Comparison of methods with Australian and NT data -- Analyses undertaken with NT data - Estimates of life expectancy for a wide range of real NT data for 1991-1996 and 1996-2001 - Sensitivity and uncertainty analyses of life expectancy estimates - Impact of changing the method of fitting regression lines - Uncertainty of estimates from the indirect methods -- Comparison of 1996-2001 life expectancy estimates for Indigenous Australians -- Incompleteness and errors in Indigenous population and deaths data -- Discussion, conclusions and recommendations -- Appendices -- Abbreviations -- References.Date:2008-11Project commissioned by the National Advisory Group on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Information and Data. Includes references 69 p