Notes

Amendments

4 July 2024

The following changes have been made to Maternal and perinatal outcomes during the 2020 and 2021 COVID-19 pandemic:

  • Antenatal care: Victorian data for number of antenatal visits in 2016 and 2017 has been removed due to a data issue. This includes removal of a figure, associated text and the removal of 2017 Victorian data from Figure 9 (proportion of women who gave birth and had 5 or more antenatal visits, by selected geography, 2017 to 2021).
  • Admission to a special care nursery or neonatal intensive care: Text on excluded jurisdictions has been updated from “South Australia” to “the Northern Territory”.
  • Data visualisations: All maps have had a minor update made to the colour gradient.

Acknowledgements

This web report was prepared by Kyle Miller of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), with valuable input from Adrian Webster, David Whitelaw, Deanna Eldridge, Denae Cotter, Kathryn Sedgwick, Lauren McFarlane, Olivia Paul, Oscar Yang and Patrick Goodarzi.

Many stakeholders provided valuable advice and input to this report, including the Department of Health and Aged Care, National Perinatal Data Development Committee and the National Maternity Data Development Project Advisory Group.

This report was funded by the Department of Health and Aged Care under the National Maternity Data Development Project.

Data quality statement

Information on completeness, accuracy and other aspects of data quality for the data sources used in this report are available from: