People Experiencing Homelessness with Characteristics

People experiencing homelessness often come from time- and labour-intensive cross-sectional counts and surveys from selected samples. This study uses comprehensive administrative health data from emergency department (ED) visits to enumerate people experiencing homelessness and characterize demographic and geographic trends in the province of Ontario, Canada, from 2010 to 2017. Data and methods People experiencing homelessness were identified by their postal code, designated as "XX." Outcomes included the number of people experiencing homelessness stratified by year and week, gender and age plotted annually, the location of each ED visit, and composition changes in demographics and geographic distribution

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Last Updated August 11, 2024, 16:54 (UTC)
Created February 8, 2024, 12:47 (UTC)
Domain / Topic
Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Homelessness
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
File format of the dataset.
.pdf - application/pdf
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Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date
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Time Period Data Span (start date)
Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date)
End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span
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Canada
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Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
Open
Limits on use
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Location
Location of the dataset.
https://www.proquest.com/docview/2493539339/fulltextPDF/4D9FC6CB69B64019PQ/1?accountid=14771&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals
Data Service
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Owner
Owner of the dataset.
Strobel Stephenson, Burcul Ivana, Dai Jia Hong, Ma Zechen, Jamani Shaila., & Hossain, R
Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
sbs296@cornell.edu
Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
Statistics Canada Health Reports
Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
Author
Author of the dataset.
Strobel Stephenson, Burcul Ivana, Dai Jia Hong, Ma Zechen, Jamani Shaila., & Hossain, R
Author Email
Email of the author.
sbs296@cornell.edu
Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
2024-02-07
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Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
https://doi.org/10.25318/82-003-x202100100002-eng
Language
Language(s) of the dataset
English
Link to dataset description
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https://www.proquest.com/docview/2493539339/abstract/9E129DEC5B0E40FCPQ/1?accountid=14771&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals
Persistent Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Yes
Globally Unique Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Yes
Contains data about individuals
Does the data hold data about individuals?
Yes
Contains data about identifiable individuals
Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
No
Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
No
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Source
Source of the dataset.
https://www.proquest.com/docview/2493539339/fulltextPDF/F6C800A13FE34FCDPQ/1?accountid=14771&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals
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Province
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Indigenous Community Permission
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Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
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Number of data properties
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Data quality
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