British Columbia's Chief Coroner provides fatality statistics for children and youth in care. The dataset is published by the Government of British Columbia and was last updated on April 17, 2026. It is available in CSV and HTML formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.
Use Cases
- Analyze mortality trends among children in care based on fatality statistics
- Assess child welfare system performance based on fatality data
- Conduct demographic or temporal analysis of fatalities based on statistical categories
Strengths
- Data is sourced from the authoritative Chief Coroner of British Columbia
- Published under the open OGL-CA-2.0 license
- Last updated on April 17, 2026
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
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:25:58.609040
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada