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Table 13 Access to medical services through Medicare by age and sex, Australia, 1999-00 to 2004-05

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School attendance - primary and secondary education
Schools, students and teaching staff

Table 13

Access to medical services through Medicare by age and sex,
Australia, 1999-00 to 2004-05

Sex	Age Group	Number of medical services accessed
Sex	Age Group	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Male	0-4	5 900 480	5 684 957	5 577 517	5 421 086	5 346 225	5 579 235
	5-9	3 246 883	3 129 255	3 189 022	2 971 489	2 869 237	2 875 385
	10-14	2 877 647	2 849 387	2 914 689	2 746 701	2 741 711	2 718 946
	15-19	3 251 290	3 189 255	3 169 262	3 022 066	3 019 652	3 024 185
	20-24	3 406 397	3 333 218	3 311 181	3 208 498	3 209 422	3 286 330
	25-34	8 199 326	8 105 947	8 006 148	7 747 186	7 678 419	7 824 951
	35-44	10 401 346	10 575 420	10 744 057	10 473 953	10 447 273	10 723 432
	45-54	12 515 674	12 965 289	13 424 131	13 333 597	13 523 606	14 038 535
	55-64	12 922 182	13 602 267	14 552 363	15 153 787	15 986 128	17 072 070
	65-74	13 785 556	14 379 816	15 035 957	15 359 807	16 029 404	16 971 018
	75-84	6 204 246	6 697 401	7 533 164	8 456 494	9 668 355	10 992 268
	85+	1 782 029	1 872 723	1 960 530	2 023 698	2 103 616	2 208 289
Total		84 493 056	86 384 935	89 418 021	89 918 362	92 623 048	97 314 644
Female	0-4	5 130 458	4 920 632	4 844 198	4 695 200	4 614 228	4 798 752
	5-9	3 079 463	2 954 368	3 003 051	2 796 501	2 683 194	2 694 390
	10-14	2 824 456	2 767 079	2 799 922	2 662 439	2 650 978	2 628 683
	15-19	5 365 390	5 321 497	5 333 756	5 139 549	5 142 826	5 126 463
	20-24	7 218 901	7 091 222	7 155 528	7 019 463	7 078 994	7 230 122
	25-34	18 916 127	18 887 319	18 984 711	18 560 350	18 468 456	18 844 332
	35-44	17 915 757	18 275 396	18 624 549	18 306 767	18 340 955	18 956 548
	45-54	18 190 821	19 001 280	19 625 675	19 488 465	19 688 734	20 333 462
	55-64	15 206 153	16 030 836	17 140 827	18 044 436	18 850 104	19 992 138
	65-74	15 083 049	15 376 727	15 991 115	16 307 498	16 866 375	17 793 846
	75-84	11 688 176	12 209 855	12 838 774	13 348 613	14 043 220	14 978 003
	85+	4 454 008	4 696 761	4 944 226	5 118 541	5 331 039	5 624 529
Total		125 072 759	127 532 972	131 286 332	131 487 822	133 759 103	139 001 268
Persons	0-4	11 030 938	10 605 589	10 421 715	10 116 286	9 960 453	10 377 987
	5-9	6 326 346	6 083 623	6 192 073	5 767 990	5 552 431	5 569 775
	10-14	5 702 103	5 616 466	5 714 611	5 409 140	5 392 689	5 347 629
	15-19	8 616 680	8 510 752	8 503 018	8 161 615	8 162 478	8 150 648
	20-24	10 625 298	10 424 440	10 466 709	10 227 961	10 288 416	10 516 452
	25-34	27 115 453	26 993 266	26 990 859	26 307 536	26 146 875	26 669 283
	35-44	28 317 103	28 850 816	29 368 606	28 780 720	28 788 228	29 679 980
	45-54	30 706 495	31 966 569	33 049 806	32 822 062	33 212 340	34 371 997
	55-64	28 128 335	29 633 103	31 693 190	33 198 223	34 836 232	37 064 208
	65-74	28 868 605	29 756 543	31 027 072	31 667 305	32 895 779	34 764 864
	75-84	17 892 422	18 907 256	20 371 938	21 805 107	23 711 575	25 970 271
	85+	6 236 037	6 569 484	6 904 756	7 142 239	7 434 655	7 832 818
Total		209 565 815	213 917 907	220 704 353	221 406 184	226 382 151	236 315 912

Table 13 (continued)

Sex	Age Group	Number of Medical Services per capita
Sex	Age Group	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Male	0-4	9.0	8.6	8.6	8.4	8.2	8.6
	5-9	4.7	4.5	4.6	4.3	4.2	4.2
	10-14	4.2	4.1	4.2	3.9	3.9	3.8
	15-19	4.8	4.6	4.6	4.3	4.3	4.3
	20-24	5.2	5.0	4.9	4.6	4.5	4.5
	25-34	5.7	5.7	5.6	5.4	5.3	5.4
	35-44	7.1	7.2	7.2	7.0	7.0	7.2
	45-54	9.6	9.8	10.1	9.9	9.9	10.1
	55-64	14.5	14.7	14.9	14.8	15.0	15.5
	65-74	21.8	22.5	23.2	23.4	24.0	24.9
	75-84	18.3	18.8	20.3	21.9	24.1	26.5
	85+	23.0	4.3	22.7	22.2	21.9	21.7
Total		8.9	9.0	9.2	9.1	9.3	9.6
Female	0-4	8.2	7.9	7.8	7.6	7.5	7.8
	5-9	4.7	4.5	4.6	4.3	4.1	4.2
	10-14	4.3	4.2	4.2	4.0	3.9	3.9
	15-19	8.3	8.0	8.0	7.6	7.6	7.6
	20-24	11.4	11.1	11.0	10.4	10.2	10.4
	25-34	13.1	13.1	13.1	12.9	12.8	13.2
	35-44	12.1	12.2	12.4	12.2	12.2	12.5
	45-54	14.0	14.3	14.6	14.3	14.2	14.5
	55-64	17.5	17.7	17.9	18.0	18.0	18.4
	65-74	22.2	22.6	23.2	23.5	24.0	24.8
	75-84	24.5	24.7	25.4	25.7	26.5	27.8
	85+	25.4	25.6	25.9	25.9	26.1	26.4
Total		13.0	13.0	13.3	13.1	13.2	13.6

Source: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing Medicare Statistics, http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/medstat-mar06-tables-d, viewed 17 July 2006.

Notes: Most medical and some dental and optometrical services rendered to private in patients in hospital, and most patients outside hospital, attract Medicare benefits. The medical services above include General Practitioner attendances, medical specialist attendances, pathology, diagnostic imaging and other medical services such as anaesthetics and optometry on a fee-for-service basis for which a rebate is paid under Medicare. Excluded from the above Medicare statistics are services rendered free-of-charge to public patients in public hospitals (public hospital funding under Medicare provides free access to these medical services), services rendered under motor vehicle third party and workers’ compensation schemes, services for defence veterans and their dependents (these are covered under separate Australian Government funding arrangements), most government funded community health services, as well as services not necessary for patient care (for example, examinations for employment purposes).

School attendance - primary and secondary education

60. School attendance is compulsory throughout Australia between the ages of 6-15 years (16 years in SA, Tasmania and WA). Most children start primary school at around 5 years of age. The final two years of secondary schooling generally fall outside the compulsory stage of education. Despite this, 87 per cent of students who entered secondary school in 2001

or 2002 (depending on the State or Territory of schooling) continued on to Year 11 in 2005, and 75 per cent of students who started in secondary school in 2000 or 2001 continued to Year 12 in 2005.

61. Although each State and Territory has developed its own approach to schooling, moves are underway across Australia to standardise core education curriculum modules (such as mathematics, science and English) and the age of commencement of students. The expectation is that these changes will ensure that all Australian children have access to 13 years of schooling, on a comparable basis, transferable anywhere in Australia.

Schools, students and teaching staff

62. There were 9,623 schools operating in Australia as at the time of the August 2005 schools census, of which 72.0 per cent were government schools. There were 156,564 teaching staff (full-time, plus full-time equivalent (FTE)), employed in government schools (66.4 per cent of all teachers) and a further 79,231 employed in non-government schools.

63. In August 2005, 3.4 million students (FTE) were attending primary and secondary schools, comprising 2.3 million (67 per cent) in government schools and 1.1 million (33 per cent) in non government schools. Between 2000 and 2005 the number of students (FTE) attending government schools decreased by 4,700 (-0.2 per cent), while the number of students attending non-government schools increased by 103,200 (10 per cent).

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