The Vital Statistics Agency continues to be actively involved in the preparation of various reports and publications that present and analyze British Columbia's vital event data. These studies, reports, and periodicals are intended as research tools to assist health planners, researchers, and health care administrators. Agency publications are available upon request from the BC Vital Statistics Agency, and can be viewed on the Agency's website at http://www.vs.gov.bc.ca/stats/index.html.
Following is a list of the most recent publications by the Agency.
British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency, Ministry of Health (produced for Medical Services Branch of Health Canada). Analysis of Status Indians in British Columbia: Updated Report, 1991 - 1998.
British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency, Ministry of Health. Pregnancy Counts and Rates by Age Groups by Health Region, British Columbia, 1990/1991 to 1998/1999.
British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency, Ministry of Health. Selected Vital Statistics and Health Status Indicators: One Hundred Twenty-Seventh Annual Report 1998.
Kashaninia, Z. "Fire Deaths in British Columbia, 1986 to 1998", Quarterly Digest, 9 (3), March, 2000.
Kashaninia, Z., J. Macdonald, Armour, R. "Drowning and Other Water-Related Accidental Fatalities, British Columbia, 1990 to 1998", Quarterly Digest, 9 (1 & 2), October, 1999.
Stubbings, T., J. Macdonald "Beautiful and Deadly British Columbia: Natural Environmental Deaths, 1985 to 1998", Quarterly Digest, 9 (4), June, 2000.
Internet Sources of Vital Statistics Information
The Agency's Information and Resource Management branch web pages (http://www.vs.gov.bc.ca/stats/index.html) include copies of recent annual reports, quarterly reports (Quarterly Digest tables and articles), health status indicators, popular baby names, and feature reports including the Analysis of Status Indians in British Columbia. Copies of most reports can be downloaded from the Portable Document Files pages.
Vital Statistics mortality data is also available on the Ministry of Health's Health Data Warehouse website (http://www.hdw.moh.hnet.bc.ca/). Access to this Ministry intranet site is limited to authorized users; for further information on access policies, please refer to: http://admin.moh.hnet.bc.ca/hdw/index.html.
The BC STATS website (http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/data/pop/popstart.htm) presents statistics derived from vital statistics data, including fertility rates, estimates of life expectancy, and rates of natural population increase. BC STATS produces all population estimates used in Agency reports; these estimates and other population data can be downloaded from their website.
