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Willingness of Canadians to use a contact tracing application / by Nicole Aitken, Martin Turcotte and Fei-Ju Yang.CS45-28/1-2020-60E-PDF

"With the loosening of COVID-19 restriction measures, public health authorities and governments are reflecting on additional solutions to mitigate the spread of the virus. One way to achieve that goal in communities is to use contact tracing applications, as a complement to current manual contact tracing efforts by health authorities. Most of these applications use smartphone Bluetooth technology to check whether an individual was in close proximity to someone who tested positive for COVID-19 via randomly generated, anonymous codes. These applications can notify users who have had potential contact with individuals who have the virus and can provide instructions on how to get tested and guidance on whether they should self-isolate"--Page [3].

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Department/Agency
  • Statistics Canada, issuing body.
TitleWillingness of Canadians to use a contact tracing application / by Nicole Aitken, Martin Turcotte and Fei-Ju Yang.
Series title
  • StatCan COVID-19 : data to insights for a better Canada
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
Other language editions[French]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Issued also in French under title: La volonté des Canadiens d’utiliser une application de recherche des contacts.
  • "Release date: July 31, 2020."
  • Issued also in HTML format.
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Publishing information
  • [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, 2020.
  • ©2020
Author / Contributor
  • Aitken, Nicole, author.
Description1 online resource (8 unnumbered pages) : colour graphs.
Catalogue number
  • CS45-28/1-2020-60E-PDF
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