Page last revised: January 11, 2011

APPLICATION PROCESSING TIME - RECENT EXAMPLES

The table below provides examples of processing times for recent projects. It is intended as a guide only to help researchers to plan their projects. This table is updated quarterly.

*Population Data BC officially took on the intake function in September 2010, so for some of the projects listed the information for the 'Intake to submission to Data Steward(s)' category may not exist. Where it does exist it may not reflect the original intake date if the intake did not happen at Population Data BC.

Requested internal datasets (Population Data BC holdings)

Requested external datasets

Data Stewards

Intake to submission to Data Steward(s)*

Submission to full approval

Full approval to first data release

First data release to complete data release

Consolidation File, MSP, Hospital Separations, Continuing Care, Vital Statistics - Deaths PharmaNet, Researcher-collected data BC Vital Statistics Agency, Ministry of Health Services, PharmaNet Stewardship Committee 138 days
 358 days
 180 days on-going
Hospital Separations, Vital Statistics - Deaths Cardiac Services BC Registry data BC Vital Statistics Agency, Ministry of Health Services, Cardiac Services BC no data
 233 days
 215 days 0
Consolidation File, MSP, Hospital Separations, PharmaCare n/a Ministry of Health Services 67 days
 160 days
 58 days 0
WorkSafeBCBC Forest Safety Council Faller RegistryBC Forest Safety Council, WorkSafeBC39 days28 days190 dayson-going
WorkSafeBCn/aWorkSafeBC17 days112 days27 days0
Cosolidation File, Hospital Separations, Vital Statistics - Deaths Cardiac Services BC Registry data, Centrol Transfusion Registry dataBC Vital Statistics Agency, Ministry of Health Services, BC Provincial Blood Coordinating Office, Cardiac Services BCno data376 days430 dayson-going
Consolidation File, Hospital Separationsn/aMinistry of Health Services34 days142 days82 days0
Consolidation File, Hospital SeparationsCardiac Services BC Registry dataMinistry of Health Services, Cardiac Services BC14 days216 days21 days32
Consolidation File, MSP, Hospital Separations, WorkSafeBC, Vital Statistics - Deathsn/aBC Vital Statistics Agency, Ministry of Health Services, WorkSafeBC33 days349 days36 dayson-going
Vital Statistics - DeathsBC Cancer Registry, BC Centre for Disease Control dataBC Caner Agency, BC Centre for Disease Control, BC Vital Statistics Agency63 days223 days112 days0


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