Population Data BC (PopData) performs linkage on intake of a new data set from a Data Provider, where approved. New data sets are received from Data Providers throughout the year and incorporated into PopData’s holdings on an ongoing basis.
PopData uses personal identifiers and mathematical linkage techniques to link records belonging to the same individual across files and over time.
Linkage allows information on an individual from one data source to be linked to information on the same individual from another data source. Using the linked data makes it possible to gain a more comprehensive understanding than could be obtained from either data source individually.
Linkage can also be used for conducting longitudinal analyses within the same data source, even when identifying information is recorded inconsistently, incompletely or has changed over time.
Data access has been approved for a study examining the impact of environmental exposures on early childhood development. The research, which will look at the Metro Vancouver area, aims to inform effective interventions to support healthy urban planning for vulnerable populations, specifically children in socioeconomically deprived areas.
Spatial data can be used in conjunction with data sets managed by Population Data BC.
Spatial data is data with location information that can be linked to places in geographic space and visualized as a map or used in spatial analysis. Spatial characteristics apply to most population health related phenomena and these can be mapped and analyzed, using software such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), to investigate questions of concern to population health researchers.
January 1, 1985 onward
Includes all deaths registered in the province of BC.
January 1, 1985 onward
Includes all marriages registered in the province of BC.
January 1, 1985 onward
Includes all stillbirths registered in the province of BC.
January 1, 1985 onward
Includes all births registered in the province of BC.
Population Data BC provides researchers with the MSP payment data organized by the date services are provided, rather than the payment date. We believe data organized by service date will be more useful and relevant to researchers than data organized by the date payment for a service is made.
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