Data sources

  • Coroner’s death investigation case management systems, Ontario Office of the Chief Coroner. Extracted August 10, 2023.
  • Statistics Canada. Table 13-10-0709-01, Deaths, by age group and sex, last accessed August 28, 2023
  • Historical Population Estimates, Analysis for 2022, Ministry of Finance. Extracted January 2023

Exclusion criteria

This section outlines the exclusion criteria to create the cohort for the analysis of this report. Any deaths that met any of the follow criteria were excluded from the cohort.

  • Missing age
  • Date of birth or death was missing.
  • Where death factor was listed as skeletal remains, stillbirth or pre-term pregnancy loss.
  • Natural hospital deaths

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