Table 1.

Characteristics of LSIC study children at baseline (2008)¹¹ compared with the general population of Indigenous Australian children less than 5 years of age^a

Characteristic	LSIC sample		Estimated population of Australian Indigenous children
	n	%	n	%
Total	1687	100	77715	100
State/territory
New South Wales	494	29.3	22 967	29.6
Victoria	143	8.5	4904	6.3
Queensland	515	30.5	22 842	29.4
Western Australia	126	7.5	10 282	13.2
South Australia	106	6.3	4003	5.2
Tasmania	0	0	2610	3.4
Northern Territory	303	18.0	9472	12.2
Australian Central Territory	0	0	608	0.8
Other territories	0	0	27	0.0
Age (years)b
< 1	241	14.3	13 279	17.1
1	660	39.1	12 894	16.6
2	77	4.6	12 553	16.2
3	193	11.4	12 720	16.4
4	460	27.3	12 980	16.7
5	55	3.3	13 289	17.1
Sex
Male	860	51.0	39 599	51.0
Female	827	49.0	38 116	49.0
Level of remoteness
Major cities	439	26.0	24 708	31.8
Inner regional	428	25.4	17 153	22.1
Outer regional	227	13.5	17 063	22.0
Remote	256	15.2	7003	9.0
Very remote	337	20.0	11 788	15.2

^aIn the initial participating cohort, 1687 primary carers were interviewed. However, 16 families were removed from Release 2 and Release 3 datasets for administrative reasons; thus, the total number of participants in Wave 1 is reduced to 1671.

^bOne missing value.