Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Deaths Publication

Question

There is a publication called Deaths (cat. no.84F0211XWE).The page at <http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=84F0211XWE&lang=eng> states that it is an ongoing annual publication, but the last release was in July 2012. Is this in fact still an ongoing publication?If there are newer data available, why has the publication not been updated?

Answer

The “Deaths” publication has been discontinued.There is new data available. Cause of Death data was just updated last month to include 2010 and 2011.Deaths (please see the links in the Daily announcement for more information on tables and analysis available):

Daily:
<http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dai-quo/index-eng.htm?HPA>

Death:
<http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/130925/dq130925a-eng.htm>

Causes of death (please see the links in the Daily announcement for more information on tables and analysis available)
<http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/140128/dq140128b-eng.htm>