Tag Archives: age

The Hospitalization Life Cycle

The Canadian Institute for Health Information has just released a report on Hospital Stays in Canada which provides a plethora of interesting tables on hospital stays in Canada at a national and provincial level.  Both the age-standardized hospitalization rate (per 100,000 population) and the age standardized average length of stay (in days) in Canada have […]

Earnings in the “Good Old Days”

The last two times I’ve taught my quantitative economic history course, I have assigned a micro-data collection project based on the 1901 Census of Canada.   All in all, this data collection was a good experience for the students given they got some direct experience collecting primary data, coding it and then analyzing it.  Moreover, I […]