British Columbia's community corrections client counts from fiscal year 2008-09 to 2023-24. The dataset includes breakdowns by region, ethnicity, document type, most serious offence, and flags for spousal abuse and sex offenders. It is published by the Government of British Columbia on the open_canada platform.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in community corrections populations based on fiscal year data
- Compare client demographics across regions based on regional breakdowns
- Study the prevalence of specific offence types based on Most Serious Offence (MSO) classification
- Assess the proportion of cases with spousal abuse or sex offender flags
Strengths
- Data spans 16 fiscal years from FY 08-09 to FY 23-24
- Includes multiple breakdown dimensions such as region, ethnicity, and offence type
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Time Range
- Fiscal years 2008-09 to 2023-24
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:26:06.784116; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada