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Deaths
2003
Data quality, concepts and methodology
Explanatory notes for the tables
Table 1 Deaths by place of residence and
place of occurrence
| | Death refers to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life
at any time after a live birth has taken place. Stillbirths are excluded.
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| | The geographic distribution of deaths in this table is based on the
deceased's usual place of residence and on the place of occurrence.
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Table 2 Deaths by geography
Month
| | Death refers to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life
at any time after a live birth has taken place. Stillbirths are excluded.
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| | The geographic distribution of deaths in this table is based on the
deceased's usual place of residence.
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In hospital and elsewhere
| | Death refers to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life
at any time after a live birth has taken place. Stillbirths are excluded.
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| | In Quebec, deaths in residential and long-term care centres are included
in "hospital" category.
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| | The category "Place of death, non-hospital" includes deaths that occurred
in private homes, in health care institutions such as nursing homes and other
long-term care facilities, nursing stations and other short-term care facilities
and other health care facilities not licensed to operate as hospitals by provincial,
territorial or federal governments and at other specified sites.
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| | The geographic distribution of deaths in this table is based on the
deceased's usual place of residence.
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Subject to autopsy
| | Death refers to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life
at any time after a live birth has taken place. Stillbirths are excluded.
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| | The geographic distribution of deaths in this table is based on the
deceased's usual place of residence.
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Table 3 Deaths by single year of age and
geography
| | Death refers to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life
at any time after a live birth has taken place. Stillbirths are excluded.
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| | Age attained at the last birthday preceding death.
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| | The geographic distribution of deaths in this table is based on the
deceased's usual place of residence.
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Table 4 Deaths by age group and geography
| | Death refers to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life
at any time after a live birth has taken place. Stillbirths are excluded.
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| | Age attained at the last birthday preceding death.
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| | For "Age at time of death, all ages", the mortality rate represents
the crude death rate, or the number of deaths during a given year per 1,000 population
as of July 1 of the same year.
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| | For "Age at time of death, under 1 year", mortality rate calculation
uses live births in calendar year instead of the under one year of age population
estimate.
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| | For "Age at time of death, 1 to 4 years", mortality
rate calculation uses population estimates for 0 to 4-year
olds less live births in calendar year.
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| | For "Age at time of death", all age groups except "all ages", the mortality
rate represents the age-specific death rate, or the number of deaths in a
particular age group during a given year per 1,000 population in
the same age group as of July 1 of the same year.
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| | The geographic distribution of deaths in this table is based on the
deceased's usual place of residence.
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| | The population estimates used for the 2003 mortality rate
calculations are July 1, 2003 updated postcensal estimates,
adjusted for net census undercoverage and include non-permanent residents.
These population estimates appear in the publication "Annual Demographic Statistics, 2004"
(catalogue number 91-213-XIB/XPB).
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Table 5 Deaths by marital status, age group
and geography
| | Death refers to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life
at any time after a live birth has taken place. Stillbirths are excluded.
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| | Age attained at the last birthday preceding death.
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| | Marital status refers to the legal conjugal status of the deceased at
the time of death. Persons in common-law relationships are categorized by
their legal marital status. A single person is one who has never been married,
or a person whose marriage has been annulled and who has not remarried. A
separated person is legally married but is not living with his or her spouse
because the couple no longer wants to live together. A divorced person is
one who has obtained a legal divorce and has not remarried. A married person
is one who is legally married and not separated. A person whose spouse has
died and who has not remarried is widowed.
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| | The geographic distribution of deaths in this table is based on the
deceased's usual place of residence.
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Table 6 Infant mortality by age group
and sex, Canada
| | Mortality rate calculations in this table use live births in the calendar
year instead of the Demography Division's under one year of age population
estimate.
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| | Death refers to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life
at any time after a live birth has taken place. Stillbirths are excluded.
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| | Age, in the case of infant deaths, corresponds to the completed number
of months (or minutes, hours, or days) since birth.
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| | Infant death is the death of a child under one year of age.
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| | Infant death rate is the number of infant deaths during a given year
per 1,000 live births in the same year.
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| | Neonatal death is the death of a child under 4 weeks of age
(0 to 27 days).
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| | Neonatal mortality rate is the number of neonatal deaths during a given
year per 1,000 live births in the same year.
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| | Post-neonatal death is the death of a child under one year of age but
at least 28 days old (28 to 364 days).
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| | Post-neonatal mortality rate is the number of post-neonatal deaths during
a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year.
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| | The mortality rate represents the number of deaths in a particular age
group during a given year per 1,000 live births in the same calendar
year.
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| | Live birth is the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of
a product of conception which, regardless of the duration of pregnancy, subsequently
breathes or shows any other evidence of life.
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and geography
| | Mortality rate calculations in this table use live births in the calendar
year instead of the Demography Division's under one year of age population
estimate.
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| | Death refers to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life
at any time after a live birth has taken place. Stillbirths are excluded.
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| | Age, in the case of infant deaths, corresponds to the completed number
of months (or minutes, hours, or days) since birth.
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| | Infant death is the death of a child under one year of age.
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| | Infant death rate is the number of infant deaths during a given year
per 1,000 live births in the same year.
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| | Neonatal death is the death of a child under 4 weeks of age
(0 to 27 days).
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| | Neonatal mortality rate is the number of neonatal deaths during a given
year per 1,000 live births in the same year.
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| | Post-neonatal death is the death of a child under one year of age but
at least 28 days old (28 to 364 days).
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| | Post-neonatal mortality rate is the number of post-neonatal deaths during
a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year.
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| | The mortality rate represents the number of deaths in a particular age
group during a given year per 1,000 live births in the same calendar
year.
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| | Live birth is the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of
a product of conception which, regardless of the duration of pregnancy, subsequently
breathes or shows any other evidence of life.
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| | The geographic distribution of deaths in this table is based on the
deceased's usual place of residence.
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Table 7 Perinatal mortality and components
by geography
| | Death refers to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life
at any time after a live birth has taken place. Stillbirths are excluded.
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| | Late fetal death refers to a stillbirth of 28 or more weeks
of gestation, excluding unknown gestational age.
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| | Early neonatal death is the death of a child under one week of age (0 to 6 days).
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| | Perinatal death is the death of a child under one week of age (0 to 6 days)
or a stillbirth of 28 or more weeks of gestation.
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| | Perinatal death rate is the number of perinatal deaths during a given
year per 1,000 total births (live births plus late fetal deaths)
in the same year.
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| | Live birth is the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of
a product of conception which, regardless of the duration of pregnancy, subsequently
breathes or shows any other evidence of life.
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| | Stillbirth corresponds to the complete expulsion or extraction from
its mother of a product of conception, which did not at any time after birth
breathe or show any other sign of life.
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| | Most provinces and the three territories require a stillbirth with a
gestational age of 20 weeks or more or a birth weight of at least 500 grams
to be registered. In Quebec and Saskatchewan (and New Brunswick, prior to
November 1996), only stillbirths weighing 500 or more grams
must be registered, regardless of the gestational period. Until 1997,
only stillbirths with gestational periods of 20 weeks or more were
required to be registered in Prince Edward Island, regardless of birth weight.
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| | Stillbirth data are tabulated according to the mother's usual place
of residence.
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| | Mortality rates for late fetal deaths and early neonatal deaths are
not calculated; however, these two components are used in the calculation
of mortality rates for perinatal deaths.
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| | The geographic distribution of deaths in this table is based on the
deceased's usual place of residence.
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Table 8 Life expectancy - abridged life
table by sex and geography
| | Life expectancy is the number of years a person would be expected to
live, starting at birth (for life expectancy at birth) or at age 65 (for
life expectancy at age 65) if the age- and sex-specific mortality rates
for a given observation period (such as a calendar year) were held constant
over the estimated life span.
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| | Life expectancy is calculated by Greville's method for abridged life
tables, using annual mortality rates with five-year age groupings of population
and mortality rates. See "Life Tables, Canada, provinces and territories, 1995-1997"
(catalogue number 84-537-XIE) for a complete explanation
of the methodology used to produce abridged life tables.
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| | Rates used in this table for the calculation of life expectancy are
calculated with data that exclude: births to mothers not resident in Canada,
births to mothers resident in Canada, province or territory of residence unknown,
deaths of non-residents of Canada, deaths of residents of Canada whose province
or territory of residence was unknown and deaths for which age or sex of decedent
was unknown.
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| | Rates used in this table for the calculation of life expectancy are
based on data tabulated by place of residence.
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| | The low and high 95% confidence intervals show the range of values
within which there is a 95% probability that the true life expectancy
value lies.
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| | The coefficient of variation is a measure of the variation of an estimated
value for a variable (such as life expectancy). It is calculated by dividing
the standard deviation by the mean of the variable. The coefficient of variation
is a measure of variability that can be compared across variables measured
in different units. The coefficients of variation in this table are expressed
in percentages.
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| | Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) from 16.6% to 33.3%
are identified by an (E) and should be interpreted with caution.
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| | Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) greater than 33.3% were
suppressed (F) due to extreme variability.
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| | Life expectancy for the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories and
Nunavut should be interpreted with caution due to small underlying counts.
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| | The population estimates used for the 2003 life expectancy
calculations are July 1, 2003 updated postcensal estimates,
adjusted for net census undercoverage and include non-permanent residents.
These population estimates appear in the publication "Annual Demographic Statistics, 2004"
(catalogue number 91-213-XIB/XPB).
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