Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
      • Mothers
      • Antenatal factors
      • Indigenous mothers
      • Labour and delivery
      • Baby outcomes
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
      • Purpose of this report
      • National Perinatal Data Collection
      • Data quality, presentation and interpretation issues
    • 2 Summary of births and women who gave birth in 2012
    • 3 Mothers
      • Demographic profile
      • Maternal age
      • Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander mothers
      • Geographical location of the mother's usual residence
      • Maternal characteristics
      • Parity
      • Previous caesarean sections
      • Assisted reproductive technology
      • Antenatal period
      • Antenatal visits
      • Duration of pregnancy at the first antenatal visit
      • Smoking during pregnancy
      • Body mass index
      • Labour and birth characteristics
      • Place of birth
      • Duration of pregnancy
      • Multiple pregnancy
      • Onset and type of labour
      • Pain relief during labour and operative delivery
      • Presentation at birth
      • Method of birth
      • Perineal status after vaginal birth
      • Pre-existing and pregnancy-related medical conditions
      • Women who gave birth in hospitals
      • Hospitals and birth centres
      • Hospital sector
      • Admitted patient election status
      • Method of birth and hospital sector
      • Length of stay in hospital
      • Mode of separation from hospital
      • Homebirths
    • 4 Babies
      • Demographic profile
      • Birth status
      • Month of birth
      • Sex
      • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander babies
      • Outcomes
      • Gestational age
      • Birthweight
      • Presentation at birth
      • Method of birth
      • Resuscitation at birth
      • Admission to special care nurseries or neonatal intensive care units
      • Hospital births
      • Length of stay in hospital of birth
      • Mode of separation from hospital
    • 5 Perinatal mortality
      • Definitions
      • Baby deaths
      • Fetal deaths
      • Neonatal deaths
      • Perinatal deaths
      • Causes of perinatal deaths
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: State and territory perinatal data collections, contacts and recent reports
      • Appendix B: Collection and collation of data for the National Perinatal Data Collection
      • Appendix C: Perinatal National Minimum Data Set items
      • Appendix D: Data quality statement National Perinatal Data Collection for 2012
      • Appendix E: Data used in figures
    • Glossary
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Related publications
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