Declarations of Bedbug Exterminations by Pest Managers in Montréal Since 2011

Statements by pest managers submitted since July 5, 2011, providing a record of bedbug extermination activities in Montréal. The data is published by the Government and Municipalities of Québec under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated in April 2026. Its reliability is noted as low due to manual recording by third parties without validation by the City of Montréal.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in bedbug infestations based on the submission dates mentioned in the description.
• Map the spatial distribution of reported exterminations based on the available geospatial file formats.
• Assess the volume and frequency of pest control activities based on the manually recorded declarations.
• Study the potential gaps in data reliability for public health reporting based on the noted lack of city validation.

Strengths

• Data collection spans over 15 years, starting from July 5, 2011.
• Available in multiple formats including CSV and GeoJSON, suggesting tabular and geospatial use.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data has a low degree of reliability as it is manually recorded by third parties and is not validated by the city.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Manually recorded declaration forms submitted by pest managers.

Time Range

From July 5, 2011 onward.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 18:09:19.989020; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely Montréal, based on the description referencing the City of Montréal.