Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort

Overview

Summary

The Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohorts (CanCHECs) are population-based probabilistically linked datasets. The CanCHECs combine long-form census respondents (or National Household Survey (NHS) respondents) with administrative health data (e.g. mortality, cancer, hospitalizations, ambulatory care) and annual mailing address postal codes. These data can be used to examine health outcomes by population characteristics measured by the long-form census or NHS (e.g. income, education, occupation, language, ethnicity, immigrant status, or Indigenous identity). Environmental data can be attached to the CanCHECs using the annual postal code file in order to examine the association between environmental exposure and a health outcome. Individuals who appear in more than one CanCHEC can be identified using the CanCHEC Overlap file (this is exclusively for the purposes of removing duplicate observations and must not be used to link individuals across different waves of CanCHEC).

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