Creator:

Statistics Canada

Geography:

North America > Canada

Categories:

• Healthcare Practitioners

Tags:

• doctors
• health care workers
• nurses
• psychologists

Date:

2001-2006

URL:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-550-x/91-550-x2008001-eng.pdf

Annotation:

The purpose of this report is to provide a portrait of the pool of certain groups of health care professionals who serve or who may be able to serve official-language minority communities (OLMC). In particular, it compares the proportional distribution of these professionals to that of minority populations.  The data analysed in this report are obtained from the long census form, completed by one fifth of all Canadian households, except in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, where it is completed in each and every household. Due to the small size of the OLMCs in certain provinces, territories and sub-provincial regions, a lesser degree of precision can be achieved in estimating the size of the medical professional staff pool available to minority populations using official languages.