Fee-for-Service data from British Columbia's Medical Services Plan (MSP) covering fiscal years 2005-06 to 2009-10. The dataset likely contains counts of services, patients, and expenditures disaggregated by patient gender and practitioner specialty. It is published by the Government of British Columbia on the Open Canada platform.
Use Cases
- Analyze gender-based disparities in healthcare access based on patient counts by gender
- Compare expenditure patterns across medical specialties based on total expenditures by specialty
- Track changes in service volume over time based on number of services per fiscal year
Strengths
- Data covers five consecutive fiscal years from 2005-06 to 2009-10
- Includes three core metrics: number of services, patient counts, and total expenditures
- Disaggregated by two key dimensions: patient gender and practitioner specialty
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2005-2010 period
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Collection Method
- Fee-for-Service (MSP) billing data
- Time Range
- 2005-06 to 2009-10 fiscal years
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:38:42.860718; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada