Researchers may request contact information for residents of British Columbia to invite them to participate in a research study.
This is done by submitting a Request to Disclose Personal Information for the Purpose of Contacting Individuals to Participate in Health Research form to the BC Ministry of Health Data Stewardship Committee (DSC) and the Office of Information and Privacy Commission for BC (OIPC).
The next in HDRN Canada's Big Ideas Speaker Series Lucie Richard and Diana Ridgeway will discuss how to use identifiers of homelessness in health administrative data. This session will provide an insightful overview of improvements in data quality, validation of case definitions and best practices for using homelessness identifiers.
The power of data lies in their use to make discoveries that can affect and benefit the public. This power is even greater when data of different types and from different sources are combined or linked together. Linking data, however, also can introduce risks, such as the potential to identify certain sub-populations or communities.
Population Data BC (PopData) is a multi-university, data and education resource facilitating interdisciplinary research on the determinants of human health, well-being and development.
Providing a range of services to Researchers and data providers, PopData strives to ensure that Researchers have timely access to the data and training they need to address research questions on population health. Research using these data informs policy-making and leads to healthier communities.
There are currently three streams available for academic researchers to access data on the population of British Columbia:
Researchers will be routed to a data access stream based on the data sets required to answer the research question.
