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  • 221. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Archived
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X20030046978
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    - Between 1979 and 2001, 599 deaths in Canada were attributed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), only one of which was related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), known as "mad cow disease."

    - CJD mortality rates rise with age and are highest among people in their seventies.

    Release date: 2004-07-21
  • 222. Injuries Archived
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X20030036850
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article examines which groups have high rates of injury and what activities are most likely to produce injuries.

    Release date: 2004-05-18
  • 223. Leading cancers - Changes in five-year relative survival Archived
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X20030026811
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Five-year relative survival ratios for prostate and breast cancer rose substantially in the 1985 to 1987 and the 1992 to 1994 periods. Increases in survival ratios for colorectal cancer over the same periods were smaller, but still statistically significant. Relative survival for lung cancer changed little.

    Release date: 2004-03-29
  • 224. Premature mortality in health regions with high Aboriginal populations Archived
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X20030016765
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article examines the rate of potential years of life lost--a measure used to quantify premature mortality in differing health regions. The rate was considerably higher in health regions with large proportions of Aboriginal residents, compared with other health regions. Much of this difference was attributable to injuries in the high-Aboriginal regions; notably, suicides and motor vehicle accidents.

    Release date: 2004-01-21
  • 225. Vital Statistics Compendium Archived
    Table: 84-214-X
    Description:

    This compendium of vital statistics includes summary data on births, deaths, marriages and divorces. The introduction covers the data sources, data quality, and methods pertaining to each event, and includes a glossary defining the terms used. The first chapter is a brief overview of vital statistics for 1996. Subsequent chapters treat marriage, divorce, birth, fetal and infant mortality, total mortality, causes of death, vital statistics by census division, and international comparisons. Most charts and tables show Canada data for 1986 though 1996, while the charts and tables for causes of death show Canada data for 1979 through1996. Data for the provinces and territories are usually shown for 1995 and 1996. Appendices include population denominator data, age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) calculation methods, and leading causes of death methodology.

    Release date: 1999-11-25
  • 226. Validation Study for a Record Linkage of Births and Infant Deaths in Canada Archived
    Journals and periodicals: 84F0013X
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Description:

    This study was initiated to test the validity of probabilistic linkage methods used at Statistics Canada. It compared the results of data linkages on infant deaths in Canada with infant death data from Nova Scotia and Alberta. It also compared the availability of fetal deaths on the national and provincial files.

    Release date: 1999-10-08
Data (145)

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  • 31. Leading causes of death, total population, by age group
    Table: 13-10-0394-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Rank, number of deaths, percentage of deaths, and age-specific mortality rates for the leading causes of death, by age group and sex, 2000 to most recent year.
    Release date: 2023-11-27
  • 32. Leading causes of death, infants
    Table: 13-10-0395-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Rank, number of deaths, percentage of deaths, and mortality rates for the leading causes of infant death (under one year of age), by sex, 2000 to most recent year.
    Release date: 2023-11-27
  • 33. Deaths, by place of residence and place of occurrence
    Table: 13-10-0707-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    Number of deaths, by place of residence and place of occurrence, 1991 to most recent year.

    Release date: 2023-11-27
  • 34. Deaths, by month
    Table: 13-10-0708-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    Number and percentage of deaths, by month and place of residence, 1991 to most recent year.

    Release date: 2023-11-27
  • 35. Deaths, by age group and sex
    Table: 13-10-0709-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number and percentage of deaths, by age group, sex, and place of residence, 1991 to most recent year.
    Release date: 2023-11-27
  • 36. Deaths, by age
    Table: 13-10-0709-02
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number and percentage of deaths, by single year of age and sex.
    Release date: 2023-11-27
  • 37. Mortality rates, by age group
    Table: 13-10-0710-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number of deaths and mortality rates, by age group, sex, and place of residence, 1991 to most recent year.
    Release date: 2023-11-27
  • 38. Deaths, by marital status
    Table: 13-10-0711-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number of deaths, by marital status, age group, sex, and place of residence, 1991 to most recent year.
    Release date: 2023-11-27
  • 39. Infant deaths and mortality rates, by sex
    Table: 13-10-0712-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number of infant deaths and infant mortality rate, by age (neonatal and post-neonatal) and sex, 1991 to most recent year.
    Release date: 2023-11-27
  • 40. Infant deaths and mortality rates, by age group
    Table: 13-10-0713-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    Number of infant deaths and infant mortality rates, by age group (neonatal and post-neonatal), 1991 to most recent year.

    Release date: 2023-11-27
Analysis (81)

Analysis (81) (20 to 30 of 81 results)

  • 21. Short-term cancer prevalence in Canada, 2018
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202200300002
    Description:

    This study presents detailed tumour-based cancer prevalence estimates in Canada by sex, age group, cancer type and prevalence duration as of January 1, 2018.

    Release date: 2022-03-16
  • 22. Health Fact Sheets
    Journals and periodicals: 82-625-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description: Health fact sheets will include short, focused, single-theme analysis documents. Over the course of the series, analysis will include topics on: Health conditions, lifestyle, well-being, disability, prevention and detection of disease, deaths, pregnancy and birth, health care services and environmental factors.
    Release date: 2021-10-27
  • 23. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Canadian seniors
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202100100008
    Description:

    This article brings together research on the health, social and financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Canadian seniors aged 65 years and older. The results discussed are based on data from the Canadian Vital Statistics Death Database, Canadian Community Health Survey, Labour Force Survey, Canadian Perspectives Survey Series, and crowdsourcing data.

    Release date: 2021-10-18
  • 24. Do cancer incidence and mortality rates differ among ethnicities in Canada?
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202100800001
    Description:

    Cancer incidence rates have been shown to vary by ethnicity, and the increasing awareness of and interest in reporting ethnic health inequalities have been growing internationally. The objective of this study was to assess cancer incidence and mortality rates by ethnicity in Canada. The study used the 2006 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort, linked to the Canadian Cancer Registry and the Canadian Vital Statistics-Death Database, to determine cancer cases and mortality from 2006 to 2016. Ethnicity was categorized as non-Indigenous North American (NINA); European; Caribbean; Latin, Central and South American (LCSA); African; East Asian; South Asian; and West Central Asian and Middle Eastern.

    Release date: 2021-08-18
  • 25. Association of frailty and pre-frailty with increased risk of mortality among older Canadians
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202100400002
    Description:

    This study estimates the prevalence of frailty and pre-frailty among adults aged 65 or older in Canada, and examines associations with mortality-all-cause and cause-specific (i.e., neoplasms, and diseases of the circulatory and respiratory systems)-over a follow-up period of three to five years.

    Release date: 2021-04-21
  • 26. Trends in paediatric cancer survival in Canada, 1992 to 2017
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202100200001
    Description:

    This study describes survival, improvement in survival over time and conditional survival for paediatric cancer patients in Canada.

    Release date: 2021-02-17
  • 27. Snowmobile fatalities in Canada, 2013 to 2019 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2021002
    Description: This is an infographic about snowmobiling deaths. The results shown are based on data from the Canadian Coroner and Medical Examiner Database and the Canadian Vital Statistics: Death Database.
    Release date: 2021-01-22
  • 28. COVID-19 death comorbidities in Canada Archived
    Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100087
    Description:

    Using the latest data from the Vital Statistics - Death Database, this article presents information about the most common comorbid conditions in COVID-19 deaths, as well as the extent to which these conditions differ by age groups. Comorbidities are defined as chronic and acute conditions, diseases, disorders, and complications appearing on the medical certificate of cause of death where COVID-19 was involved in the death.

    Release date: 2020-11-16
  • 29. COVID-19 mortality rates in Canada’s ethno-cultural neighbourhoods Archived
    Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100079
    Description:

    This article examines the differences in COVID-19 related mortality rates across different ethno-cultural neighbourhoods in Canada. The differences in age-standardized mortality rates by proportion of population groups designated as visible minorities are compared for Canada and selected provinces and census metropolitan areas to understand whether or not communities with higher proportion of population designated as visible minorities are reporting higher COVID-19 related mortality rates.

    Release date: 2020-10-28
  • 30. Associations between the receipt of inpatient palliative care and acute care outcomes: A retrospective study
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202001000001
    Description:

    The present study examines the receipt of inpatient palliative care and its association with location of death, as well as with admission to intensive care units and use of alternate level of care beds in hospital in the last 30 days of life.

    Release date: 2020-10-21
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