Type 2 Diabetes in Children since 1970’s

Question

I have a student looking for the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in children going back to the 1970's to date or whatever she can find. Anything we are finding is not specific to type 2. Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer

This information doesn't appear to be readily available in CANSIM, on the StatCan website or in the DLI collection. I have therefore asked our health contacts to advise. I will be sure to get back to you through the dlilist as soon as I receive their recommendations.

The third reference in the Diabetes section of Healthy People, Healthy Places (82-229-XWE; http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-229-x/2009001/status/dia-eng.htm#n3) refers to a non-StatCan publication on Type 2 diabetes in children and may also be of interest to the student:
American Diabetes Association. Type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents. Diabetes Care 2000;23(3)381-389.

Additional Information

Some data on diabetes by type for the 12-19 age group may be available as a custom tabulation from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS). They unfortunately aren't available for children under 12.

Our contacts provided the following information about the custom CCHS data that may be available:

"We don't ask diabetes type to respondents and also our target population is 12+. We did create a derived variable in the CCHS for 2009 to derive the type of diabetes a respondent has. It is based on the series of questions in the chronic conditions module that we ask respondents who answer yes to having diabetes. It's called CCCDDIA. (...) Any tabulation by age group would be a custom tabulation. Unfortunately given that the national estimates for 2009 for the age group 12-19 are suppressed, this tabulation would not be feasible. It might be possible to use the two year data (...)." The division can look into the feasibility of producing this if these data are of interest to the student.

Our contacts also directed us to the following article from Health Reports http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2008001/article/10533-eng.htm which may be of interest.

Please let me know if the student is interested in the custom tables and I will refer you to an Account-Executive who can work with the author division to investigate this further and confirm what tables could be produced, for what years and at what cost.