Australian Bureau of Statistics Menzies School of Health
Research This Occasional Paper is intended to make the results
of current research available to other interested parties. The
aim is to encourage discussion and comment. Views expressed in
this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily
represent those of the Australian Bureau of Statistics or of the
Menzies School of Health Research. Where quoted or used, they
should be attributed clearly to the authors. This report
presents information on the distributions of height, weight and
body mass index (BMI) in a large, nationally representative
sample of Indigenous Australians aged 5 years and over. Where
possible, the results have been compared with reference data
from other populations, including data from surveys
representative of all Australians. The report also provides the
results of analysis of a variety of factors which may be
associated with BMI. (For more information about BMI, see page
5.) Data were collected as part of the first Nationa