ACTGHS sleep, adult age groups
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Commentary
55.8% of respondents to the 2022 ACT General Health Survey 18 to 24 years, 60.4% of respondents aged 25 to 44 years, 64.7% of respondents aged 45 to 64 years and 55.5% of respondents aged 65 years and over reported that they meet the sleep recommendation. There was no significant difference between age groups in 2022.
Sleep Health Foundation recommends 7 to 9 hours of sleep for adults aged 18 to 64 years and 7 to 8 hours for adults aged 65 years and over.
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.
Respondents to the 2022 survey were aged 18 years and over. 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.
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.
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Proportion of adults aged 18 years and over who meet the sleep recommendation, by age group, ACT General Health Survey, 2018-2022
Data
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Codes and sources
Q. On a usual night, how many hours sleep do you get?
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.