Description
Updates to The Impact of Preterm Birth on Socioeconomic and Educational Outcomes of Children and Families (010-2021) (IPB) are now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.
What’s New
- The updated release for this project adds STC and STM linked to DAD for the period 2005—2019.
The purpose of this data integration project is to quantify individual- and family-level, socioeconomic impact of preterm birth, in both the short- and long-term survivors and compare their outcomes to those of infants born at term. This project will also create a retrospective cohort of families of preterm infants and compare their outcomes to those of families of infants born at term.
Four cohorts were produced for this project: long-term follow-up of children (LTC) born between 1983 and 1996, long-term follow-up of mothers (LTM) of children born between 1983 and 1996; short-term follow-up of children (STC) born between 2006 and 2015; and short-term follow-up of mothers (STM) of children born between 2006 and 2015. Subsequently, each cohort was linked to one or more of the following administrative and/or survey data: the T1 Family file (T1FF); the Canadian Vital Statistics – Deaths Database (CVSD); the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD); the Employment Insurance Status Vector (EISV); the Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS); and the 2006 Census of Population.
This project will provide valuable information to both policymakers and clinicians. The linked data can be used to help inter alia:
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Elucidate areas of focus or improvement for future interventions involving preterm birth children and families;
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Provide comprehensive, quantifiable estimates of the short- and long-term socioeconomic impact of preterm birth on both child and family.
Statistics Canada has a long history of creating, using and making available record linkages. Record linkage is an important and cost-effective statistical technique used to develop data products that support advanced research and provide new insights on important social issues, such as health outcomes and disparities in subsectors of the Canadian population.
