The abbreviations have been used in this publication.
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| AIHW | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| ARIA | Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia |
| ASCCSS | Australian Standard Classification of Countries for Social Statistics |
| ASDR | Age-specific death rate |
| CD | Census Collection District |
| CDR | Crude death rate |
| DFAT | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| ERP | Estimated resident population |
| HIV/AIDS | Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| ICD-9 | International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision |
| ICD-10 | International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision |
| IHD | Ischaemic heart diseases |
| IMR | infant mortality rate |
| ISDR | indirect standardised death rate |
| na | not available |
| np | not available for publication but included in totals where applicable |
| PRB | Population Reference Bureau |
| r | revised |
| SD | Statistical Division |
| SDR | Standardised death rate |
| SEIFA | Socio-economic Indexes for Areas |
| SLA | Statistical Local Area |
| SMR | standardised mortality ratio |
| SSD | Statistical Subdivision |
| . . | not applicable |
| - | nil, or rounded to zero (including null cells) (see Explanatory Note 3).
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