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Database name:
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Licensed Practical Nurses Database 
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Thematic Coverage:
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This database collects data to increase the comprehensiveness of the national nursing database by providing Licensed Practical Nurse information at the provincial, territorial and national levels in a standardized, comparable format.
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Maintained by:
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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). If privacy and confidentiality criteria are met, data can be released at the sub-provincial level. Costs are dependent upon the level data required, plus programming and processing fees.
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Start Date:
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2002
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Release Date:
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Release dates of publications vary. CIHI also responds to research and analysis requests.
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Frequency of collection:
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Annual
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Data Collection:
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Each year Licensed Practical Nurses complete a mandatory registration form to practice. An approved subset of all data collected by the provincial/territorial regulating authorities is submitted electronically to CIHI for processing and verification.
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Sample size:
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All Licensed Practical Nurses (12.6% of the nursing workforce in Canada in 2000).
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Geographic coverage:
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All provinces and territories
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Lowest geographic
level collected:
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Postal Code
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Lowest geographic
level of release:
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Census Subdivision
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Existing rural variable:
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No
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Rural definitions that can be constructed from this database include (building block):
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Census "rural areas"
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(Enumeration Area)
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Rural and Small Town definition
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(Census Subdivision)
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Metropolitan area and census agglomeration Influenced Zones
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(Census Subdivision)
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OECD "rural communities" definition
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(Census Consolidated Subdivision)
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OECD "predominantly rural regions" definition
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(Census Division)
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Ehrensaft's "Beale codes"
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(Census Division)
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Data Elements:
- Demographics
- Employment
- Education
Notes:
For more information, contact lpndb@cihi.ca
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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