• Regulated Nurses: Canadian Trends, 2006 to 2010
• Regulated Nurses: Canadian Trends, 2005 to 2009
• Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's LPN Workforce 2007
• Distribution and Internal Migration of Canada's Registered Nurse Workforce, 2007
• Internationally educated physicians and nurses in Canada, 2007
• The Regulation and Supply of Nurse Practitioners in Canada: 2006 Update
• Supply and Distribution of Registered Nurses in Rural and Small Town, Canada

The CIHI Nursing Database includes data for the three regulated nursing professions in Canada: Licensed Practical Nurses, Registered Nurses and Registered Psychiatric Nurses.

This database contains demographic, education and employment information on Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN), Registered Nurses (RN) and Registered Psychiatric Nurses (RPN) in Canada. The LPN and RN data contain pan-Canadian demographic, education and employment information on RNs and LPNs in Canada. The RPN data contains the same information but includes only data from the four western provinces that regulate RPNs as a separate nursing profession.
 
The data is collected under the terms of agreements with the provincial/territorial regulating authorities responsible for the each licensure of each nurse type.

National Survey of the Work and Health of Nurses (NSWHN)

The 2005 National Survey of the Work and Health of Nurses represents a collaborative effort involving CIHI, Health Canada and Statistics Canada. The NSWHN was designed to examine links between the work environment and the health of regulated nurses in Canada, and is the first nationally representative survey of its kind.

• Zoom in on... the 2005 National Survey of the Work and Health of Nurses (NSHWN)

Provincial/territorial regulatory authorities are responsible for data collection, which occurs during the annual registration process. The data is manually entered and a provincial/territorial file is submitted to us in a standardized format. Not all data elements collected from the registration forms are sent to us; each regulatory authority collects additional information for its own administrative and/or research purposes, apart from the elements outlined in the data agreement.

We organize all the data we receive and calculate variables created by combining data elements. For example, Birth Year is subtracted from Data Year to create the variable Age.

Data Dictionaries

Data dictionaries are tools to describe how we process data. They also assist data providers in developing submissions to us. Current data dictionaries for each database are

• Methodological Notes from Regulated Nurses: Canadian Trends, 2006 to 2010 (PDF) 290 KB
• Registered Nurses System Data Dictionary and Processing Manual (Version12.0) (PDF) 674 KB
• Licensed Practical Nurses System Data Dictionary and Processing Manual (Version 11.0) (PDF) 897 KB
• Registered Psychiatric Nurses Data Dictionary and Processing Manual (Version 10.0)  (PDF) 792 KB

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nursing@cihi.ca

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