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Appendix B
Appendix B lists a number of important databases that were included in the review process but contained data that is not conducive to being classified by any of the definitions of rural presented by du Plessis et al..
List of Appendix B databases
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Database name:
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Canadian National Atmospheric Chemistry Database and Analysis System
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Thematic Coverage:
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This database archives North American air and precipitation chemistry data that can be used to enhance atmospheric research. Such research includes investigations into the chemical nature of the atmosphere, atmospheric processes, spatial and temporal patterns, source-receptor relationships and long range transport of air pollutants. To contribute to NAtChem, networks must operate for a period of at least two years, must have wide area coverage and must have regionally-representative sites (rural and background).
The NAtChem Database consists of 3 smaller databases:
- The NAtChem Precipitation Chemistry Database*
- The NatChem Particulate Matter Database*
- The NAtChem Air Toxics Database
* Included in inventory
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Maintained by:
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Meteorological Service of Canada
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Availability:
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Dependent upon database
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Global Pesticides Release Database
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Thematic Coverage:
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This database collects high-quality gridded emission and residue data of persistent organochlorine pesticides, such as HCH, DDT, toxaphene, with different scales and resolutions. These datasets can be used by scientific, industrial, educational, and policy-making communities.
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Maintained by:
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Modelling & Integration Research Division of Air Quality Research Branch, Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada
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Availability:
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This website provides a number of data sets, and journal articles for free downloads. However, these data sets are available to be freely downloaded by registered users only. You must register and then login before you can download them.
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Health Expenditures Database
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Thematic Coverage:
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This database collects information at a macro level on health spending in Canada. It holds data on all health expenditures in the country - by spending category (e.g. hospital services, physician services) and source of funding (e.g. government).
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CIHI
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Availability:
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Data disclosure is determined by CIHI's Privacy and Confidentiality Policy (see www.cihi.ca). Costs are dependent upon the level data required, plus programming and processing fees. Agreements do not allow for the release of confidential data obtained from the private insurance companies and AC Nielsen Canada.
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Notes:
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CIHI completed a study on the impact of regionalization on this database which examined the feasibility of collecting health expenditures at the regional level in June 2000. The study concluded that the development of comprehensive health expenditure estimates for health regions is not feasible within the limits imposed by present sources of data and data collection systems.
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Database name:
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National Work Injuries Statistics Program
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Thematic Coverage:
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This program collects information annually on work related time-loss injuries and illnesses from Provincial and Territorial Workers' Compensation Boards in Canada.
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Maintained by:
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Labour Statistics, Statistics Canada
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Availability:
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Access to raw data is not provided beyond the Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada. The database is not linked with external databases.
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NWISP publishes an annual report containing statistical summary information covering all of the variables in the database over a three-year time series. More detailed statistical summaries are available to meet specific requests.
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Thematic Coverage:
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This monthly survey collects rent data and rental characteristics to be used as input into the construction of the rental component of the Consumer Price Index. This survey is part of the Labour Force Survey.
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Maintained by:
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Prices Division
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Availability:
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Custom tabulations are also available on a cost recovery basis.
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Notes:
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The purpose of this survey is to produce measures of rent change. Although there is no statistical measurement of the quality, for this purpose, the quality is acceptable. For any other purposes, such as the derivation of rent levels or rent characteristics, the quality is low and the data should not be used for these purposes.
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Thematic Coverage:
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This survey was conducted to establish baseline measures of protection and exposure behaviours since these behaviours have never before been addressed in a national health survey; and secondly, to measure attitudes on risk perception and the need for protection. It assesses the sun-exposure and protective behaviours of people living in the five regions within Canada and builds on preliminary work funded by Environment Canada, the Canadian Dermatology Association, and Health Canada.
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Special Surveys Division
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Availability:
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A public release version of the data files is available through the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI). Some variables are suppressed and other are aggregated to protect the anonymity of individual survey respondents. Custom tabulations are also available on a cost recovery basis.
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Therapeutic Abortions Database
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Thematic Coverage:
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The database collects demographic and medical characteristics of Canadian patients obtaining therapeutic abortions in Canada and the United States.
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Maintained by:
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CIHI; prior to 1995, database maintained by Statistics Canada
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Availability:
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Data disclosure is determined by CIHI's Privacy and Confidentiality Policy (see www.cihi.ca). Occurrences of less than three are suppressed when tables are run. Costs are dependent upon the level data required, plus programming and processing fees.
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Uniform Crime Reporting Survey
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Thematic Coverage:
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This survey collects data on the nature and incidence of crime and traffic enforcement in Canada. The revised survey collects much more detailed offence and accused information, as well as victim characteristics in cases of violent offences.
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Maintained by:
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Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics
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Availability:
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Preliminary results are not released or available to the public. They are simply used for verification purposes and for draft Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics reports.
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Notes:
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Provincial coverage on Uniform Crime Reporting 2 is currently greatest in Quebec (99%), Ontario (73%), Manitoba (56%), Alberta (53%) and Saskatchewan (52%). National coverage is expected to remain around 60% until such time as the RCMP (28% of national volume of crime) are capable of providing data.
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This area contains documents in Portable Document Format (PDF). To view documents in PDF, you will need the Adobe Acrobat® Reader, which can be downloaded from the Adobe website.
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