Data set listings

Please note that files within a data set from one provider may differ from those of another provider.

Search the data set listings by category and/or Platform/Program. You may select multiple categories using ctrl click.

If the name of the data set is hotlinked, click on it for more details.

Category: Name of data set: Platform / Program: Data options: Status:
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Affordable Child Care Benefit

Data source: Ministry of Education and Child Care
Data type: Administrative

A complete de-identified listing (by month) of children and youth under the supervision of MCFD by a court order or by agreement with the parents. Includes children receiving affordable child care benefit.

DI Program No checklist required Available: Internally managed
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BC Cancer Registry

Data source: BC Cancer
Data type: Registry

Information on all cancers diagnosed for BC residents and reported to the BC Cancer Registry.

PopData Non-Core Available: Internally managed
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BC Employment and Assistance

Data source: Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction
Data type: Administrative

Includes de-identified caseload and involvement data February 1989 to December 2019. This data uses two months of reconciliation, which accounts for 99% of all transactions for any given benefit month. It also includes historical data.

DI Program No checklist required Available: Internally managed
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BC Family Maintenance

Data source: British Columbia Family Maintenance Agency
Data type: Administrative

Includes de-identified client, child, and case data.

DI Program No checklist required Available: Internally managed
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BC Perinatal Data Registry

Data source: Perinatal Services BC
Data type: Registry/Administrative

The BC Perinatal Data Registry (BCPDR) captures maternal, fetal, and neonatal data for an estimated 99% of all births that occur in BC.

DI Program No checklist required Available: Internally managed
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BC Perinatal Data Registry

Data source: Perinatal Services BC
Data type: Registry/Administrative

The BC Perinatal Data Registry (BCPDR) captures maternal, fetal, and neonatal data for an estimated 99% of all births that occur in BC.

PopData Non-Core Available: Internally managed
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BC Population Projections 2018 to 2041

Data source: Statistics Canada
Data type: Aggregate

A population projection is a forecast of future population growth. BC Stats applies the Component/Cohort-Survival method to project the population.

DI Program No checklist required Available: Internally managed
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BC Vital Events and Statistics: Births

Data source: BC Ministry of Health
Data type: Registry

Includes all births registered in the province of BC.

Please note that the DI Program does not provide single data sets. ALL BC Vital Events and Statistics data sets are provided.

DI Program No checklist required Available: Internally managed
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BC Vital Events and Statistics: Births

For further information on this data set, please visit the Health Data Platform BC (HDPBC) website.

HDPBC Core HDPBC
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BC Vital Events and Statistics: Births

Data source: BC Ministry of Health
Data type: Registry

Includes all births registered in the province of BC.

PopData Core, Non-Core Available: Internally managed

DARs/Projects snapshot

Total number of DARs/Projects currently with PopData:

472

The breakdown:

DARs in preparation/review

69

Projects with amendments in preparation/review

26

DARs in post-approval

31

Projects with data being prepared

32

Projects being maintained
(inc. 9 DASH, 18 DI Program and 3 ODC projects)

289

CaraSpace projects

25

Last revised March 15th, 2024

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