Increasing the use of existing data to explore social and economic factors linked to COVID-19 mortality
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Statistics Canada has been releasing provisional death data on a regular basis (Provisional deaths and excess mortality in Canada dashboard). However, on their own, these data have limited ability to explore the social and economic impacts of the pandemic on the Canadian population. Therefore, to expand the value of the provisional death data and create opportunities to explore the social and economic impacts of the pandemic on the Canadian population, Statistics Canada has created a dataset that links the provisional COVID-19 death data from the Canadian Vital Statistics – Death Database with the 2016 Census of Population.
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