Site map

ABOUT US

• Funders
• Data partners
• Staff
• Governance
• Employment
• Contact us

---

---

PRIVACY

• Policies and procedures
  • Legislative framework 
• Privacy impact assessment
• Frequently asked questions

---

---

FOR RESEARCHERS

• DATA AVAILABLE

  • Health care and health services data
    • BC Cancer Incidence
    • BC Perinatal Data Registry
    • Discharge Abstract Data (Hospital Separations)
    • Home and Community Care (Continuing Care)
    • Medical Services Plan Payment Information
      • MSP Fee Item Field Information
      • MSP Data Organised by Service Date
    • Mental Health
    • National Ambulatory Care Response Service
    • Patient Centered Measurement (PCM)
      • Acute Inpatient Survey 2016-17
      • Emergency Department Survey 2018
      • Long Term Care Survey 2018
    • PharmaCare
      • Plan Type (up to May 1, 2003)
    • PharmaNet
  • Population and demographic data
    • Consolidation file (MSP registration and premium billing)
    • Vital Events Births
    • Vital Events Stillbirths
    • Vital Events Marriages
    • Vital Events Deaths
  • Demographic and life course
    • BC Generations Project
    • Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) Permanent Residents
    • Income Band
  • Occupational data
    • WorkSafe BC Injury, Claims and Firm Level files
  • Child development and education data
    • Early Development Instrument (EDI)
      • Date ranges available
      • Programs of research
    • Middle years development instrument (MDI)
      • Date ranges available
      • Programs of research
    • Ministry of Education
  • Spatial

---

• DATA ACCESS

  • Requirements for access
    • Legislative framework history
    • Eligibility requirements
    • Expectations and responsibilities
  • Data access for students
    • Student cost waiver policy
  • The DATA ACCESS REQUEST PROCESS
    • Stage 1: Pre DAR/Planning a data access request 
    • Stage 2: Competing and submitting a DAR
    • Stage 3: Data Steward Review
    • Stage 4: Contracts and accounts set up
    • Stage 5: Data preparation and release
    • Data analysis phase
    • Stage 6: Project closure
  • Population Data BC fees and charges
  • Application processing times
    • Researcher response times
    • Guide to reducing application processing delays
  • Publishing research materials
  • Tools and resources
    • AppTracker
    • BC Data Scout^TM
    • Data Prospector BC
    • MetadataCentral
    • Snippets
    • REDCap
  • Glossary of terms

---

• DATA LINKAGE

  • The data linkage process
  • Security

---

• SECURE DATA STORAGE 

  • Secure Research Environment 
  • CaraSpace

---

• EDUCATION AND TRAINING

  • Professional Specialization Certificate in Population Health Data Analysis
    • Admission criteria and fees
    • Courses
      • Working with Administrative Data
      • Epidemiological Statistics
      • Population Health and Geographic Information Systems
      • Spatial Epidemiology and Outbreak Detection
      • Longitudinal Analysis and Multi-level Modelling of Population Health Data
      • Health Services Program Monitoring and Evaluation
    • Instructors
  • Upcoming workshops
  • Free online courses
    • Admin Data 101
    • GIS and Epidemiology
    • Introduction to Mapping Health Data - resource guide
    • Introduction to Space-Time Disease Surveillance - resource guide
    • Space-Time Disease Surveillance
    • Spatial Epidemiology
    • Data Management and Clearning for Analysis with R
    • Introduction to R Studio
    • Linear Regression
    • Mplus
    • SAS
  • ​Past workshops and events
  • Testimonials
  • Funding

---

---

SERVICES FOR DATA PROVIDERS

• Data request management
  • Data sharing agreements
  • Working in partnership
• Data linkage
• Secure data handling and storage
  • Secure research environment
  • Archival storage of data
• Online tracking and reporting
• Frequently asked questions

---

---

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES

• BC Provincial Overdose Cohort
• BC Data Deliberation
  • About
• SPOR and The BC SUPPORT Unit
• SPOR Canadian Data Platform

---

---

NEWS

---

---

EVENTS

---

---

RESEARCH IN ACTION

• Research projects
  • Project archive
• Case studies
• Videos
• Links