Australian Aboriginal Birth Cohort (ABC)

Sample details

The Australian ABC is a birth cohort of Indigenous Australians. Babies were eligible for enrolment if they were a singleton born between January 1987 and March 1990 to a mother self-identified as either Aboriginal or Torres State Islander, referred collectively as Indigenous. As of February 2024, cohort members have been followed up four times since baseline.

Study design
Cohort - birth

Number of participants at first data collection

686 (participants)

Age at first data collection

Birth (children)

Varied (mothers)

Participant year of birth

1987 - 1990 (children)

Varied (mothers)

Participant sex
All

Representative sample at baseline?
No

Sample features

Adolescents

Children and young people

Racial and ethnic minorities

Dataset details

Country

Australia

Year of first data collection

1987

Primary Institutions

Charles Darwin University (Academic, Australia)

Links

lifecoursemenzies.net.au/studies/aboriginal-birth-cohort

web.archive.org/web/20250312023906/https://lifecourse.org.au/cohorts/abc/

bmcinthealthhumrights.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-698X-9-23

Profile paper DOI

doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyw291

Funders

Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation of South Australia (Third Sector, Australia)

Colonial Foundation (Third Sector, Australia)

Diabetes Australia (Third Sector, Australia)

National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Research council, Australia)

National Heart Foundation of Australia (Third Sector, Australia)

Ongoing?
Yes

Data types collected

Quantitative data collection

Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
Interview – face-to-face
Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
Self-completed questionnaire – online

Qualitative data collection