Linking the Canadian immigrant landing file to hospital data : a new data source for immigrant health research / by Claudia Sanmartin ... [et al.].: CS11-633/2016-2E-PDF

"This report summarizes the linkage of the Immigrant Landing File (ILF) for all provinces and territories, excluding Quebec, to hospital data from the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), a national database containing information about hospital inpatient and day-surgery events. A deterministic exact-matching approach was used to link data from the 1980-to-2006 ILF and from the DAD (2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009) with the 2006 Census, which served as a “bridge” file. This was a secondary linkage in that it used linkage keys created in two previous projects (primary linkages) that separately linked the ILF and the DAD to the 2006 Census. The ILF–DAD linked data were validated by means of a representative sample of 2006 Census records containing immigrant information previously linked to the DAD"--Abstract, p. 5.

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Department/Agency Statistics Canada.
Title Linking the Canadian immigrant landing file to hospital data : a new data source for immigrant health research / by Claudia Sanmartin ... [et al.].
Series title Analytical studies : methods and references, 2371-3429 ; no. 2
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Other language editions [French]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Issued also in French under title: Couplage du fichier canadien d’établissement des immigrants aux données hospitalières : une nouvelle source de données pour la recherche sur la santé des immigrants.
"Release date: August 17, 2016."
Includes bibliographical references.
Publishing information [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada, c2016.
Author / Contributor Sanmartin, Claudia A. (Claudia Angela), 1966-
Description 15 p.
ISBN 978-0-660-05809-2
Catalogue number
  • CS11-633/2016-2E-PDF
Departmental catalogue number 11-633-X, no. 2
Subject terms Immigrants
Health care
Databases
Statistical analysis
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