Saskatchewan Birth Rates

*Note: Correspondence translated from the original French.

Question

I'm looking for the Saskatchewan birth rates from 2005 to 2008. I found the previous years (1994-2004) in the publication #91-213, but for the more recent years they don't give the number of births (in all the publications I consulted including Cansim and the Monthly Statistical Review of Saskatchewan). Is this data available?

Answer

I found the Saskatchewan birth rates for 2005 to 2008 on the following Statistics Canada web page:

http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l02/cst01/demo04b-fra.htm

By default, this table presents the number of births, but they can choose birth rates from the menu on the left (under the title "Dans cette série"). Please note the figures for 2007-2008 are provisional.

Follow-up Question

Thank you! The same research asks if such data exists for different regions in the interior of the provinces (or even another province besides Quebec)?

Follow-up Answer

Sorry for the delay in answering your question. I needed to hear back from a number of Statistics Canada people to be certain.

An analyst at the demography division says the birth rates are not easily available for the other geographic provincial levels. It should be calculated with the population estimates and number of births (a personalized totalization). Nevertheless, they recommend using fertility rate totals, which is available at the CMA level for 2005 at the following publication:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/af-fdr.cgi?l=eng&loc=/pub/91-209-x/91-209-x2004000-fra.pdf



I hope this helps.