Government and Municipalities of Québec provides annual counts of persons benefiting from court-ordered representation measures as of March 31 each year since 2007. The data covers private and public representation for adults unable to exercise civil rights, and guardianship of minors' assets, including legal, supplementary, and dative guardians. The dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0 and was last updated on 2026-04-17.
Use Cases
- Tracking trends in public guardianship appointments based on annual counts.
- Analyzing the prevalence of private representation measures like private guardianship.
- Studying the administration of minor asset guardianship based on asset value thresholds.
- Monitoring the annual caseload of the Public Curator in Québec.
Strengths
- Annual data points since 2007 provide a longitudinal view.
- Description clearly defines legal concepts like private guardianship, public guardianship, and dative guardianship.
- Data is provided under an open CC-BY-4.0 license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Freshness should be verified as the last update date is in the future (2026-04-17).
Provenance
- Source
- Government and Municipalities of Québec
- Collection Method
- Likely administrative records from court orders and the Public Curator's office.
- Time Range
- Annual data as of March 31 from 2007 onward.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:50:45.659852
- Geography
- Québec, Canada