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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)

Data (145) (0 to 10 of 145 results)

1. Provisional weekly death counts, by age group and sex
Table: 13-10-0768-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Weekly
Description: This table provides Canadians and researchers with provisional data to monitor weekly death trends by age and sex in Canada. Given the delays in receiving the data from the provincial and territorial vital statistics offices, these data are considered provisional. Data in this table will be available by province and territory.
Release date: 2024-07-11
2. Previous releases and revisions to provisional weekly death counts
Table: 13-10-0783-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Weekly
Description:
This table provides Canadians and researchers with provisional data to monitor weekly death trends in Canada. Given the delays in receiving the data from the provincial and territorial vital statistics offices, these data are considered provisional. Data in this table will be available by province and territory.
Release date: 2024-07-11
3. Provisional weekly death counts, by selected grouped causes of death
Table: 13-10-0810-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Weekly
Description:
This table provides Canadians and researchers with provisional data to monitor weekly death trends by selected grouped causes of death in Canada. Given the delays in receiving the data from the provincial and territorial vital statistics offices, these data are considered provisional. Data in this table will be available by province and territory.
Release date: 2024-07-11
4. Provisional weekly age-standardized mortality rates, by sex
Table: 13-10-0879-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Weekly
Description: The table displays weekly age standardized mortality rates for every province in Canada (excluding territories), by sex, since 2019. The standardization is done using the 2011 Canadian population.
Release date: 2024-07-11
5. Estimates of the components of natural increase, quarterly
Table: 17-10-0059-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Quarterly
Description: Components of natural increase, quarterly: births and deaths.
Release date: 2024-06-19
6. Provisional Deaths in Canada Dashboard
Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024004
Description: This dashboard presents data that are relevant for monitoring mortality in Canada. The interactive visualization within the dashboard features insights on weekly death trends from the Canadian Vital Statistics - Death (CVSD) database.
Release date: 2024-05-09
7. Estimates of deaths, by age and gender, annual
Table: 17-10-0006-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
Description: Estimated annual number of deaths by 5-year age groups and gender for Canada, provinces and territories.
Release date: 2024-02-21
8. Provisional deaths and excess mortality in Canada dashboard Archived
Data Visualization: 71-607-X2021028
Description: The dashboard presents data that are relevant for monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 on mortality in Canada. It includes the latest weekly death data, historical weekly death data back to 2014, updated adjusted (i.e. the estimated number of weekly deaths) and expected weekly death counts produced for the 2020 reference year from the Canadian Vital Statistics: Death database (CVS:D). The CVS:D is an administrative survey that collects demographic and medical (cause of death) information from all provincial and territorial vital statistics registries on all deaths in Canada. With this tool, data users can explore current and historical weekly trends of deaths for each province and territory. Key variables such as age group and sex are also presented in interactive charts. The interactive tool allows users to examine excess deaths by comparing the trend in weekly deaths in 2020 to the trends in weekly deaths in previous years.
Release date: 2023-12-14
9. Provisional weekly estimates of the number of deaths, expected number of deaths and excess mortality, inactive Archived
Table: 13-10-0784-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Weekly
Description: Provisional estimates of excess mortality, adjusted numbers of deaths, and expected numbers of deaths to monitor weekly death trends in Canada. Given the delays in receiving the data from the provincial and territorial vital statistics offices, death data have been adjusted to account for undercoverage. Data in this table will be available by province and territory.
Release date: 2023-12-14
10. Provisional weekly estimates of the number of deaths, expected number of deaths and excess mortality, by age group and sex, inactive Archived
Table: 13-10-0792-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Weekly
Description: Provisional estimates of excess mortality, adjusted numbers of deaths, and expected numbers of deaths to monitor weekly death trends, by age group and sex, in Canada. Given the delays in receiving the data from the provincial and territorial vital statistics offices, death data have been adjusted to account for undercoverage. Data in this table will be available by province and territory.
Release date: 2023-12-14

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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