Asthma in Australia 2005 Fig 2.11

Asthma in Australia 2005

Figure 2.11
Monthly percentage of emergency department visits for asthma that resulted in admission to hospital, children aged 0 to 18 years, New South Wales and Victoria, July 1999 to June 2004

Sources: NSW Emergency Department Data Collection (EDDC) (HOIST), Centre for Epidemiology and Research, NSW Department of Health; Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD), Victorian Department of Human Services; Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Data table

Month	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Jan		34.99	37.28	33.09	36.67	31.11
Feb		44.26	52.30	44.37	45.92	42.95
Mar		41.32	48.62	40.71	41.95	45.99
Apr		38.36	43.32	40.16	40.02	40.22
May		44.62	44.59	43.11	45.43	44.64
Jun		40.13	38.09	38.13	41.76	40.27
Jul	38.60	37.89	37.99	38.20	39.51
Aug	38.44	41.54	36.31	35.54	34.28
Sep	39.28	36.07	37.36	32.76	38.54
Oct	41.00	40.48	38.44	32.61	38.40
Nov	45.11	38.32	38.85	37.83	34.06
Dec	42.94	37.74	34.99	39.75	35.59