Health Regions: Boundaries and Correspondence with Census Geography Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: Health regions are defined by the provinces and represent administrative areas or regions of interest to health authorities. This series of datasets contains the digital boundaries depicting health regions in Canada, and, correspondence files linking health regions to the latest Census geographic codes. Health Regions: Boundaries and Correspondence with Census Geography reflects the health region boundaries provided in this product are based Census geographic units. Since census geography does not recognize provincial health region boundaries, a health region-to-census geography correspondence file provides the linkage between health regions and their component census geographic units. These correspondence files use the smallest relevant census geographic unit (dissemination area (da) and dissemination block (db), in most cases). Correspondence files are available as supplemental data from the additional documentation section. In addition to the geographic files, this product also includes Census data (basic profile) for health regions.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2017-06-09

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  This metadata was created using information from the Health Regions: Boundaries, Geographic Information and Population Estimates (82F0082XCB) User Guide.

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  http://scholarsportal.info

  Contact Instructions:

  datagis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic Information

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  Series

  Name: Health Region Boundaries

  
  

  Statistics Canada Ottawa Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: boundaries

  Keywords:

  BOUNDARIES, HEALTH, HEALTH REGIONS, Peer groups, Health statistics, Population Health

  Boundaries, Frontière, Health, Santé

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada

  Purpose:

  Health Region Boundaries and Correspondence with Census Geography provide the means to map census data disseminated at various census geographic levels, for provincial health regions and peer groups.

  Dataset Language: eng

  Status: completed

  Update Frequency: asNeeded

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Extent

  West Longitude: -141.132833

  East Longitude: -52.494812

  North Latitude: 83.172722

  South Latitude: 41.55

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  A four digit numeric code is used to uniquely identify health regions. The first two digits represent the province, and the second two digits represent the health region.

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

  Object Count: 139

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  Provincial and Territorial Ministries responsible for administering health.

  
  

  Process step:

  Scholars Portal: In some cases, this service represents data that has been altered, including, conversion from .e00 format to ESRI .shp format, and a spatial dissolve was performed to dissolve polygons to unique identifiers. A table join was then performed to preserve the related feature attributes. A manual edit was then performed to preserve the French characters in the attribute table.

  Provincial and Territorial Ministries responsible for administering health. Scholars Portal: In some cases, this service represents converted data provided by the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program at Statistics Canada, and has been altered from its original form (.e00).

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  Statistics Canada Ottawa Ontario, Canada