Fee-for-service data from British Columbia's Medical Services Plan for the 2009-10 fiscal year. It includes total population, counts of practitioners, number of services, and expenditures aggregated by Local Health Authority. The dataset is provided by the Government of British Columbia.
Use Cases
- Analyze healthcare expenditure patterns based on total expenditures by Local Health Authority
- Map practitioner distribution based on counts of General Practitioners, Medical Specialists, and Other Health Practitioners
- Correlate population size with service volume based on total population and number of services
Strengths
- Data is aggregated by Local Health Authority, providing a regional breakdown
- Includes four distinct metrics: population, practitioner counts, services, and expenditures
- Covers a specific fiscal year (2009-10) for temporal consistency
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data is limited to a single fiscal year, restricting longitudinal analysis
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Collection Method
- Fee-for-service data from the Medical Services Plan (MSP)
- Time Range
- 2009-10 fiscal year
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:29:24.696243; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada, by Local Health Authority