Table 5 Leading causes of death in Australia 2006–2018 among women aged 60–74, 75–84 and 85 years or more, ranked by using the current method (underlying cause of death alone, UCoD), the new data driven method (DD) and the method using arbitrary weight with p = 0.5

Ischaemic heart disease

4

4

2

1

1

1

1

1

2

Dementia, Alzheimer's disease

4

3

2

2

2

1

Cerebrovascular disease

7

7

8

3

4

4

3

3

3

Other malignant neoplasm

1

1

1

2

2

3

5

5

Chronic lower respiratory disease

5

5

3

5

5

5

7

8

10

Other circulatory disease

9

9

5

7

7

6

4

4

5

Lung, tracheal cancer

2

2

4

6

6

Colorectal cancer

6

6

8

8

Breast cancer

3

3

6

10

10

Other digestive disease

8

10

Kidney disease

10

9

9

7

7

Heart failure

10

6

6

6

Lymph, blood cancer

8

8

9

9

Influenza, pneumonia

10

Hypertensive disease

9

7

9

4

Pancreatic cancer

10

10

Diabetes

7

8

Cardiac arrhythmia

8

Symptoms, signs ill-defined conditions

9