PHIDU - Prevalence of Selected Health Risk Factors - Adults (LGA) 2014-2015

This dataset, released May 2017, contains for the years 2014-15 the Estimated number of people aged 18 years and over with high or very high psychological distress based on the Kessler 10 Scale; Estimated number of people aged 18 years and over who had high blood pressure; Overweight, obesity and waist measurement (modelled estimates); Smoking (modelled estimates); Alcohol: lifetime risky drinking (modelled estimates); Fruit consumption (modelled estimates); Exercise (modelled estimates). The data is by Local Government Area (LGA) 2016 geographic boundaries. For more information please see the data source notes on the data. Source: Estimates for Population Health Areas (PHAs) are modelled estimates and were produced by the ABS;estimates at the LGA and PHN level were derived from the PHA estimates. AURIN has spatially enabled the original data. Data that was not shown/not applicable/not published/not available for the specific area ('#', '..', '^', 'np, 'n.a.', 'n.y.a.' in original PHIDU data) was removed.It has been replaced by by Blank cells. For other keys and abbreviations refer to PHIDU Keys.