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

Brief description

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](http://phidu.torrens.edu.au/data-archive/sha-aust/2015-onwards/phidu_data_sources_notes_2017.pdf) 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](https://phidu.torrens.edu.au/social-health-atlases/data#social-health-atlases-of-australia-local-government-areas). 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available for the specific area ('#', '..', '^', 'np, 'n.a.', 'n.y.a.' in original PHIDU data) was removed.It has been replaced by by Blank cells.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](https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/plus/s/1ryaKpnBQB6cMCp).

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