ACTGHS missing teeth, adult age groups
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Commentary
In 2021, 21.0% of respondents to the ACT General Health Survey aged 16 to 24 years, 32.3% of respondents aged 25 to 44 years, 57.8% of respondents aged 45 to 64 years and 89.7% of respondents aged 65 years and over reported that they were missing some or all of their *natural teeth. Respondents aged 65 years and over were significantly more likely to report that they were missing teeth than respondents aged 16 to 24 years, 25 to 44 years and 45 to 64 years and respondents aged 45 to 64 years were significantly more likely to report that they were missing teeth than respondents aged 16 to 24 years.
*Includes wisdom teeth.
For the purpose of reporting the ACT General Health Survey data on HealthStats, if the 95% confidence intervals of the estimates do not overlap, they are considered to be significantly different.
Note: The indicator shows self-reported data collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). Estimates were weighted to adjust for differences in the probability of selection among respondents and were benchmarked to the estimated residential population using the latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates.
Data for oral health are not collected every third year (i.e. 2019 and 2022).
Persons includes respondents who identified as male, female, other and those who refused to answer and may not always add to the sum of male and female.
The 2018 estimate for respondents aged 16 to 24 years has a relative standard error between 25% and 50% and should be used with caution.
Statistically significant differences are difficult to detect for smaller jurisdictions such as the Australian Capital Territory. Sometimes, even large apparent differences may not be statistically significant. This is particularly the case in breakdowns of small populations because the small sample size means that there is not enough power to identify even large differences as statistically significant.
Chart
Proportion of adults aged 16 years and over who are missing teeth, by age group, ACT General Health Survey, 2018-2021
Data
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Codes and sources
Q. Are any of your natural teeth missing?
Yes; No; Don't know; Refused
Don't know and refused responses were excluded from analysis.
A copy of the ACT General Health Survey questionnaires can be found in Data collections.