Notwithstanding some improvements, data for Indigenous people are of poor quality in several key areas.
Indicator | Data Priority |
| Life expectancy and causes of death | Continue work on improving quality and availability of Indigenous data, including changes over time. |
| Substantiated child abuse and neglect; children on care and protection orders | Develop data collections to better reflect the underlying extent of child protection issues that are not necessarily apparent from administrative data on substantiations, notifications and orders. |
| Alcohol and tobacco consumption; drug and other substance use | Collect regular data comparing Indigenous and non-Indigenous consumption and more robust data by jurisdictional and geographic levels. |
| Birthweight | Extend data collections to focus on the Indigenous status of babies (rather than mothers). |
| Hearing impediments | Collect data to enable the assessment of the true burden of hearing loss and the type and severity of ear infections in the Indigenous population. |
| Hospitalisations data | Improve quality of Indigenous identification in hospital administrative systems. |
| Social and emotional wellbeing | Improve data on comparable measures of social and emotional wellbeing. |
| Family and community violence | Improve data on relationship of victim to offender and comparability between states and territories. |
| Children with tooth decay | Expand the availability of comparable data on children’s dental health. |
| Juvenile diversions | Collect comparable national data |
| Self employment and Indigenous business | Collect regular data on Indigenous business and self-employment. |
| Access to clean water and functional sewerage | Collect regular data allowing comparison between services in |