Children and Youth Receiving Child Intervention Services - by Placement Type and Indigenou

Average monthly counts of Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and youth receiving child intervention services in Alberta, broken down by placement type. The dataset provides historical information dating back ten years and is published by the Government of Alberta. Data is available as aggregate Excel files, visualizations, and includes a data dictionary for field descriptions.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in child intervention service utilization based on placement type over a ten-year period.
• Comparing the representation of Indigenous versus non-Indigenous children in the child welfare system.
• Evaluating policy impacts on service delivery by tracking changes in average monthly counts.
• Creating visualizations for public reporting on child and family services outcomes.

Strengths

• Historical data spans ten years, enabling longitudinal analysis.
• Data is disaggregated by Indigenous status and placement type.
• Published by the Government of Alberta, an authoritative source.
• Includes a data dictionary describing fields and elements.

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 geographic bias inherent to the province of Alberta.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta

Collection Method

Administrative records from child intervention services.

Time Range

Ten years of historical data (specific start year not provided).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-02 12:41:36.879289; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Province of Alberta, Canada.