Government of British Columbia provides data on adult custody inmate admissions from fiscal year 2008-09 to 2023-24. The dataset includes breakdowns by custody centre, ethnicity, legal hold status, most serious offence, spousal abuse flag, and sex offender status. It categorizes the 'Dual' legal hold status as Provincially Sentenced.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in inmate admissions based on legal hold status over a 16-year period.
- Study the distribution of most serious offences across different custody centres.
- Investigate correlations between demographic factors like ethnicity and specific offence flags such as spousal abuse or sex offender status.
Strengths
- Data spans a 16-year period from fiscal year 2008-09 to 2023-24.
- Includes multiple categorical breakdowns such as centre, ethnicity, and offence flags.
- Published by a government authority (Government of British Columbia).
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 and temporal bias inherent to the provincial source.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Time Range
- Fiscal years 2008-09 to 2023-24
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:31:36.658720; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada