The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) is Australia's national agency for health and welfare statistics and information.
The AIHW releases about 150 publications every year, including two "flagship" publications, Australia's health, and Australia's welfare (published in alternate years), and numerous shorter reports, bulletins, and online information pages and data.
All the AIHW publications are available as free downloads from the website.
You can use the search box at the top right of screen to search for material on your topic.
The screen-shot below shows the results of a search for dementia. You can refine your results by Content Type.
If you hover your mouse over the Reports & Data tab, you get a range of resources, including:
If you click on the Reports & Data tab, you can view:
TIP: If you know how to use Google Advanced Search, you can use it to search the AIHW website.
You can search for books, reports, journal articles, and other material that have statistics on a topic, by going to Primo Search or a journal database.
In your search, use statistic* as a search term and combine it with your topic, as in these examples:
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Charles Sturt University acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands on which its campuses are located, paying respect to Elders, both past and present, and extend that respect to all First Nations Peoples.
Charles Sturt University is an Australian University, TEQSA Provider Identification: PRV12018. CRICOS Provider: 00005F.
