This document summarizes the basic concepts, underlying methodologies, strengths and limitations of the data available.
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Table of Contents
- Table of contents 3
- About CIHI’s nursing data 4
- About this document 5
- Data availability 5
- Regulated nursing professionals 5
- Data collection 6
- Population of interest 7
- Defining the workforce 7
- Data quality 10
- Under- and over-coverage 10
- Terminology and general methodology 11
- Average age 12
- Graduate registration 12
- Graduate retention and migration 13
- Nurses employed in direct care 13
- Health regions 14
- Renewal, inflow and outflow 14
- Population estimates and per 100,000 population counts 15
- Urban and rural/remote 15
- Comparability 16
- International comparability 17
- Data limitations and considerations 18
- Nurse practitioner data, 2014 to 2023 18
- Registered nurse data, 2014 to 2023 23
- Registered psychiatric nurse data, 2014 to 2023 29
- Licensed practical nurse data, 2014 to 2023 31
- Privacy and confidentiality 34
- Appendices 35
- Appendix A: List of health care professionals, first year of regulation and regulation status, by province and territory 35
- Appendix B: List of HWDB data providers, 2023 nursing data 36
- Appendix C: Text alternative for images 38
- References 39
