Methodology
Learn more about the methodology that were used to create the Canadian Cancer Resource Planning tool.
Disclaimer: Due to data availability, years of data were pooled for some calculations below. Please refer to ‘Data sources’ for the year(s) of data that were used in the calculation.
| Incidence rate (crude) per 100,000 population | All cancers and lung cancer: (average new cancer cases per year)/(2016 population (both sexes)) x 100,000 Gynecological cancers: (average new cancer cases per year)/(2016 female population ) x 100,000 |
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| New cancer cases per care provider | (average new cancer cases per year)/ (# of corresponding care providers) |
| Mortality rate (crude) per 100,000 population | All cancers: (# of cancer deaths)/(2016 population (both sexes)) x 100,000 Lung cancer: (average cancer deaths per year)/(2016 population (both sexes)) x 100,000 Gynecological cancers: (average cancer deaths per year)/(2016 female population ) x 100,000 |
| Cancer deaths per care provider | (average cancer deaths per year)/(# of corresponding care providers) |
| Prevalence per 100,000 population (5-year) | All cancers and lung cancer: (# of people alive with cancer)/(2016 population (both sexes)) x 100,000 Gynecological cancers: (# of people alive with cancer)/(2016 female population ) x 100,000 |
| Population per care provider | Gynecological Oncologist: (2016 female population)/(# of corresponding care providers) Rest of care providers: (2016 population (both sexes))/(# of corresponding care providers) |
| Health authority/zone | – Health Authority boundary layers for all jurisdictions were obtained from the Statistics Canada Portal – Data for each jurisdiction was calculated at the FSA (Forward Sortation Area) level and then aggregated to the Health Authority level for reporting purposes. – The aggregation was done through the ArcGIS software by adding up the data in FSA’s that fall within a Health Authority boundary. The process used was ‘Summarize Within’. – For more information regarding this process, please refer to the ArcGIS documentation here. The inputs to the ArcGIS tool were the following: – – – Health Authority Boundary layer will act as the polygon layer. – – – FSA data layer will be the layer to summarize. – – – Data fields like Population count/Female Population/cancer cases/mortality count will be selected to apply statistics as Sum on these fields. – The tool will generate a new layer that will have counts at the Health Authority level for population/care providers/care centers/cancer cases/mortality cases. – The shapefile is exported for this layer and then loaded to ArcGIS Pro for calculating other metrics such as “incidence cases per 100,000 population” for Health Authorities. – This processed layer is then uploaded to the ArcGIS Online interface and used to render the Health Authority maps by jurisdiction. |