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Appendix 3

Note: Total is the number of events in the specified category for the 1998 to 2002 period.
Infant Death - deaths of children under one year of age.
Low Birth Weight live births - live births with birth weight <2,500 grams. Cesarean - live births delivered by cesarean section.
Pre-term - live births with gestational age <37 weeks.
Teenage Mother - live births to mothers under 20 years of age.
Elderly Gravida - live births to mothers 35 years of age or older.
Death is the total number of deaths from the specified cause for the 1998 to 2002 period.
D<75 is the number of deaths under 75 years of age from the specified cause.
SMR - Standardized Mortality Ratio.
PYLLI - Potential Years of Life Lost Index.
Rate - per 1,000 population in the specified area.
Rate¹ - rate per 1,000 live births in the specified area.
Rate² - per 1,000 total births in the specified area.
SMR, PYLLI, and Rate are based on the five year period from 1998 to 2002.
* Statistical testing indicates that observed deaths are statistically different from the expected deaths (p<0.05, two tailed).
+ Denotes statistical significance based on less than five cases.
TR - Trend in ASMR based on three year moving average from 1986 to 2002 (See Glossary under Trend Analysis of ASMR for a full explanation):

ì indicates a statistically significantly positive (increasing) trend and
î indicates a statistically significantly negative (decreasing) trend (in areas with an average of less than 1 death per year in the 16 year period, 1986 to 2001, trends are not shown).