Special needs service areas

The data is used to create reference and thematic maps

The Special Needs Strategy was launched in February 2014 to improve services for children and youth with special needs and their families.

Its three key areas include:

identifying kids' needs earlier and connecting them to the right help sooner

coordinating service planning

making the delivery of rehabilitation services seamless

Datasets available for download

Field	Value
Last Updated	August 20, 2024, 22:57 (UTC)
Created	July 17, 2024, 13:49 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.	Social Services
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.	application/vnd.shp, .xml, .xpdl, .xsl - application/xml
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.	6.3
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry	/catalogue/special-needs-service-areas
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2019-12-31
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.	2016-05-12
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.	2016-05-12
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.	Ontario

Field	Value
Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).	Open
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://files.ontario.ca/opendata/special_needs_service_areas_shapefiles_1.zip
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.	CKAN
Owner Owner of the dataset.	Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?	MinisterMCCSS@ontario.ca
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.	Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.	MinisterMCCSS@ontario.ca
Author Author of the dataset.	Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services
Author Email Email of the author.	MinisterMCCSS@ontario.ca
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.	2024-07-17

Field	Value
Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.	/dataset/special-needs-service-areas/resource/49d5b142-b18e-4902-8909-0b47c91b4031
Language Language(s) of the dataset	English
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.	https://files.ontario.ca/data_dictionary_special_needs_service_areas_bilingual.xlsx
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.	Yes
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.	No
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?	No
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

Field	Value
Version Version of the datatset	Last Updated Date: December 21, 2016
Source Source of the dataset.	https://files.ontario.ca/opendata/special_needs_service_areas_shapefiles_1.zip
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.	Updated as required
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

Field	Value
Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

Field	Value
Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.	1
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.