Pharmacists in Canada, 2023 – Methodology Notes

Table of Contents

• Table of contents 3
• About CIHI’s pharmacist data 4
• About this document 5
• Data availability 5
• Data collection 5
• Population of interest 6
• Defining the workforce 6
• Data quality 7
• Under- and over-coverage 7
• Terminology and general methodology 8
• Average age 8
• Pharmacists employed in direct care 9
• Health regions 9
• Inflow and outflow 9
• Population estimates and per 100,000 population counts 10
• Urban and rural/remote 10
• Comparability 11
• International comparability 11
• Data limitations and considerations 13
• HHR data standards update, 2022 13
• Pharmacist data, 2014 to 2023 14
• Privacy and confidentiality 17
• Appendices 18
• Appendix A: Pharmacists, first year of regulation, by province and territory 18
• Appendix B: Pharmacist data providers, 2023 18
• Appendix C: Text alternative for average age image 18
• References 19