British Columbia Licensed Child Care Facilities Map Data

Daily-updated information on ministry-funded licensed child care facilities in British Columbia, sourced from the provincial government. The dataset powers an online map resource to help families search for care by city, address, license type, and services offered. New facilities are added as they become operational.

Use Cases

• Map child care service availability based on city and address data mentioned in the description
• Analyze the distribution of different license types across the province
• Identify gaps in child care coverage based on the location of operational facilities
• Build a search tool for families based on the services offered by each facility

Strengths

• Updated daily, ensuring current operational status
• Sourced from the authoritative Government of British Columbia
• Includes multiple access formats (WMS, KML, CSV, HTML) for different use cases

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis

Provenance

Source

Government of British Columbia

Collection Method

Collected and maintained by the provincial ministry responsible for child care licensing.

Time Range

Current and ongoing; new facilities added upon becoming operational.

Freshness

Updated daily; last metadata update was 2026-04-22.

Geography

British Columbia, Canada.