Birth and Death Rates for Sackville, N.S.

Question

I have a student looking for birth and death rates for Sackville, Nova Scotia. This is a "Designated Place" according to the Census people. I can't seem to get to birth and death rates for anything other than provinces when using CANSIM. Sackville, N.S. is part
of the Halifax Regional Municipality and is served by the Cobequid Community Health Board. She can't seem to get information from HRM or the Health Board.

Any and all suggestions are welcome. I suspect it is another one of the situations where the raw data is collected, but no calculating is done or at least published on this level of geography.

Answers

1. Birth and death statistics were included in the 1996 Community Profiles. If you go to the STC website and select "Community profiles" from the left sidebar menu, you will find a link to the 1996 Community profiles in the bottom right of this page. A search for Sackville, NS results in two choices: both Subdivision C for Halifax. Taking this link will allow you to pick "Births and Deaths" from the following page.

2. Another alternative is to use Annual demographic statistics, which contains births, deaths, and population by county (=census division). From births/deaths and population, one can compute birth and death rates. Of course, It requires assuming that the birth/death rates for the county in also hold for Sackville, but it might be faster than waiting for birth/death stats to show up in the 2001 Community profiles.

3. Birth and death rates are available by county in the Nova Scotia Vital Statistics Annual Report
(http://www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/vstat/annualreports/) .
Totals are also given for all incorporated areas (over 1000) but Sackville is not one of them.