Data quality, concepts and methodology

1. Regional health indicators
1.1 Health region level population estimates

2. Health status indicators based on vital statistics
2.1 Provincial vital and cancer statistics
2.2 Regional-level vital statistics indicators
2.2.1 Regional level data quality measures: Confidence intervals
2.2.2 Age-standardized rates
2.2.3 Geographic coding (Geo-coding) to health regions
2.2.4 Birth statistics
2.2.5 Life expectancy
2.2.6 Disability-free life expectancy
2.2.7 Disability-adjusted life expectancy (DALE)
2.2.8 Deaths due to medically treatable diseases
2.2.9 Potential years of life lost

3. Indicators based on Cancer Incidence
3.1 Cancer incidence

4. Indicators based on Statistics Canada surveys
4.1 National Population Health Survey
4.2 National Population Health Survey - Northern Component
4.3 Canadian Community Health Survey
4.4 National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
4.5 Bootstrapping

5. Indicators based on crime data
Indicators based on crime data

6. Indicators based on labour force data
Indicators based on labour force data

7. Indicators based on Census data
Indicators based on Census data

8. Health System Indicators (Canadian Institute for Health Information)
8.1 Hospitalization data and rates (CIHI)
8.2 Physician data (CIHI)
8.3 National health expenditure database (CIHI)

Appendix
Population estimates
Statistics Canada methodology
Provincial methodologies
Footnotes