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Birth / Grade Cohorts
(200 points) (Concept) Children can be categorized into groups, or cohorts, often according to their year of birth or grade in school. This is useful when studying the developmental progress of children, as they can be compared to others in their particular cohort. This... |
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Continuing Student / Grade Repetition
(200 points) (Concept) This concept briefly discusses the issue of continuing students (also known as grade repetition and grade retention) and how this is defined and measured in MCHP research. The concept also identifies some of the MCHP research that has investigated ... |
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Education Indices
(115 points) (Concept) Three education indices have been created at MCHP to help describe an individual's educational attainment. These include: The Language Arts Achievement Index is based on scores from the Manitoba Grade 12 Language Arts ... |
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High School Completion / Graduation and Grade 12 Attainment
(112 points) (Concept) High school completion / graduation is frequently used as an outcome measure for a child's level of educational attainment. Attainment of Grade 12 by a certain age, such as 17 years old, provides a similar measure. This concept describes the genera... |
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Standards Tests / Achievement Tests - Test Performance and Outcomes
(106 points) (Concept) This concept provides information on Standards Tests / Achievement Tests that are provincial exams written by students in Manitoba. The concept includes background information on the types of tests, identifies the data sources in the MCHP Data Repo... |
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Education Overview: Links to Education-Related Data, Concepts and Glossary Terms
(106 points) (Concept) This concept provides an overview of the Education-related data available in the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) Data Repository, as well as the educational measurement / education-related terms and concepts that have been developed and def... |
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Adult Learning Centre Enrollment
(103 points) (Concept) The province of Manitoba supports the development and delivery of adult focused education programs through Adult Learning Centers (ALC) and community-based literacy programs. These programs are administered by Adult Learning and Literacy (ALL) and ... |
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School Catchment Area
(103 points) (Concept) School catchment area refers to the geographical area from which students are allowed to attend a specific school. |
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Grade 9 Achievement Index
(103 points) (Concept) The purpose of developing performance indicators for grade 9 students is to be able to measure how these students are doing in relation to the rest of their peers. The Grade 9 Achievement Index is one of three indices developed by MCHP to measure e... |
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Withdrawn From School
(103 points) (Concept) A student who has withdrawn from high school is defined as a high school-aged person who does not have a high school diploma and is not enrolled in or attending high school. |
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Curriculum Level / Academic Rigor
(100 points) (Concept) This concept defines curriculum level / academic rigor and describes the methods used at the Manitoba Center for Health Policy (MCHP) to: classify the academic level of courses taken by a Manitoba high school student through grad... |
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School Year (Education) Data
(100 points) (Concept) NOTE: This concept contains analytical information about the contents of the Education data up until the year 2007/2008, when the data was initially received at MCHP. This includes detailed description of the school year data from 1995/1996 to 2... |
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Trends in Physical Education in Manitoba High Schools
(100 points) (Concept) Currently, the Manitoba government requires all grade 9 and 10 students to take Physical Education (PE) classes in High School. Students are required to take S1 and S2 PE credits to graduate high school, representing 50% health and 50% physical edu... |
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School Assignment (School Transfers / School Changes and Longest Attended)
(100 points) (Concept) School assignment refers to how students are matched to the schools they have attended or are currently attending. Researchers have measured this concept through measuring (the sub-concepts) (a) school transfers / school changes and (b) school longe... |
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Random Effects Models - Continuous Data
(24 points) (Concept) This concept describes random effects models for longitudinal and clustered data, focusing in particular on the statistical notation for defining these models for longitudinal data. SAS syntax for random effects models is illustrated. The concept ... |
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Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE)
(9 points) (Concept) The work presented in this concept is based on that carried out by Carriere et al. (2000) ; for details regarding the programming for that project, please see Across Time & Space . Comparing ut... |
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Mother's Age at First Birth
(9 points) (Concept) This concept provides information about the measure "mother's age at first birth" - the age of a mother when she gave birth to her first child. The concept describes the methodology used to calculate this measure following a SAS code example and ide... |
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Children in Care (CIC) - Overview of Terminology and Characteristics
(8 points) (Concept) This concept provides an overview of the terminology associated with Children in Care and a description of the characteristics related to research in this area. The majority of content for this concept comes from the MCHP Deliverable The Educati... |
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Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
(6 points) (Concept) This concept describes the research methods used at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) over time to define Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), including the specific ICD codes, prescription drugs and additional conditions that... |
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Measures of Need for Health Care - Conceptual Issues in Selection
(6 points) (Concept) The most precise and appropriate approach to identify need for medical care in RHA populations would be the detailed measurement of specific morbidity in these populations. An inventory of specific morbidity measures would include, for example, inci... |
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Data Sources / Indicators Related to Maternal / Child Health and Early Childhood
(6 points) (Concept) This concept identifies all of the health, social, justice and education data sources available in the Manitoba Population Research Data Repository (Repository) at MCHP that could be used for researc... |
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Manitoba Population Research Data Repository (Repository)
(6 points) (Concept) This concept contains a description of what the Manitoba Population Research Data Repository (Repository) is; identifies the way the Repository is structured into six different domains (including links to lists and detailed descriptions of the indiv... |
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Waiting Times for Surgery - Update to 2007
(6 points) (Concept) This concept discusses the analysis of waiting times to surgery in studies completed at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP). It identifies which surgical procedures have been evaluated, what registries are used to gather information to dete... |
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Birth Cohort Registry - Methodology
(3 points) (Concept) This concept provides the methodology, including SAS code (internal access only), for the development of the birth cohort registry at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP). Issues associated with creating birth cohorts are also discuss... |
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Live Births and Comparison of Data Sources
(3 points) (Concept) The investigation of a Birth Cohort looking at the educational achievements of students in Manitoba included looking at different sources of information for the number of live births in Manitoba. This inves... |
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Pathways To Health and Social (PATHS) Equity
(3 points) (Concept) This concept provides information on the Pathways To Health and Social (PATHS) Equity project. |
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Tuberculosis (TB) - Method of Identification
(3 points) (Concept) This concept provides a working definition of tuberculosis (TB) and describes the methods used at MCHP to investigate TB in the administrative data held in the Manitoba Population Research Data Repos... |
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Education Data
(3 points) (Concept) This concept contains a description of what Education data is; a description of how the Education data can be analyzed; a link to the MCHP Data repository web page that lists the Education data sets in the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) D... |
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Early Development Instrument (EDI) Outcomes
(3 points) (Concept) This concept describes the Early Development Instrument (EDI) and the outcomes associated with this instrument. It also provides information on the areas (domains) covered by the EDI and the outcome... |
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Grade 12 Language Arts (LA) Test Performance Outcomes by Socioeconomic Status (SES)
(3 points) (Concept) This concept describes the methods reported in MCHP research to measure the performance of grade 12 students on the Language Arts Standards Test, and how the performance relates to socioeconomic status. The concept focuses on the two methods used to... |
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Mental Health Indicators for Children
(3 points) (Concept) This concept identifies and describes a set of mental health indicators that were developed and used to examine the diagnostic prevalence of mental disorders in Manitoba's children, as well as the health and social services use, justice system invol... |
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Virtual or Telephone Physician Visits
(3 points) (Concept) The following concept describes the methods used to identify virtual or telephone physician/nurse practitioner visits, and other types of physician services provided that do not involve in-person physician / patient contact. These types of services ... |
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Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) / Myocardial Infarction (MI) - Definition, Rates and Post-AMI Management
(3 points) (Concept) This concept contains a brief conceptual definition of AMI and a detailed operational definition of how MCHP has defined AMI using administrative data. The concept also provides a list of MCHP research that has investigated AMI over time. Each res... |
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Elixhauser Comorbidity Index
(3 points) (Concept) This concept contains information on the Elixhauser Comorbidity Index including: a basic description of the Elixhauser Comorbidity Index, how the Index is used at MCHP, and a brief historical perspective on the development and changes to the Index ... |
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Infant Health Measures and Health at Birth
(3 points) (Concept) The health of an infant at birth is typically assessed by medical professionals immediately following delivery. These measures of infant health provide researchers with the ability to compare newborn health with a variety of educational, social, and... |
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Conduct Disorder
(3 points) (Concept) This concept describes the research methods used at MCHP to define conduct disorder. Links are also provided to the findings of this research. |
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Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Progression to End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) - Heat Map
(3 points) (Concept) This concept describes the methods developed to measure the risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression to end stage kidney disease (ESKD) as it was used in the Care of Manitobans Living with Chronic Kidney Disease deliverable by ... |
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Schizophrenia - Measuring Prevalence
(3 points) (Concept) This concept defines schizophrenia and describes how this medical condition has been defined in MCHP research. This includes a list of databases where this information resides, the ICD diagnosis codes that are used to define it, and a list of MCHP r... |
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Mental Disorder / Mental Health Disorder / Mental Health Illness Classification
(3 points) (Concept) This concept describes the classification of "mental disorders" / "mental health disorders / "mental health illness" and how this classification has been defined in MCHP research. This includes a list of databases where mental health data resides, ... |
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Regular Source of Care (RSOC)
(3 points) (Concept) RSOC is one way of measuring continuity of care. Mustard et al. (1996) created a measure of regular source of care for children by enumerating all ambulatory medical services provided ... |
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Socio-Economic Risk Index (SERI)
(3 points) (Concept) To examine the relationship of a population's socioeconomic characteristics to its health status and use of health care services, a composite Socio-Economic Risk Index (SERI) was developed for the Population Health Information System. From a set ... |
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Social and Recreational Programs - Winnipeg
(3 points) (Concept) NOTE: This data is archived in the MCHP Data Repository as it is felt that it will no longer be used in our research. The Social and recreational programs variables were derived from a database of social, recreation, and other programs th... |
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Waiting Times for Surgery
(3 points) (Concept) Waiting times were first defined as the time between the date of a patient's last pre-operative visit to the surgeon and the date of the surgery (DeCoster et al., 1998). This measure of surgical waiting time was developed because, except for cardia... |
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Measures of Neighbourhoods
(3 points) (Concept) The following document details the measurement of Winnipeg neighbourhoods on several physical variables. ArcView was used to locate amenities etc. in order to assign them to the 12 Community Areas (CA's) , |
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Asthma - Measuring Prevalence
(3 points) (Concept) This concept contains information on how asthma been defined in MCHP research using administrative data, including a brief definition, a broad review of existing literature published prior to 2006, and specific algorithms since then that have define... |
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Variance
(3 points) (Concept) Variance is a technique used in statistical analysis to calculate the degree of variance of collected data. The most logical reference point in data analysis is the mean, notated as 
, the typical value for a set...
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Measures of Comorbidity
(3 points) (Concept) This concept identifies and briefly describes the measures of comorbidity investigated in the Cancer Data Linkage in Manitoba: Expanding the Infrastructure for Research deliverable by Lix et al. (2016). Some of these measures... |
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Number of Children
(3 points) (Concept)
Number of children has been defined at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP)...
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Siblings
(3 points) (Concept) Administrative data provide large numbers of individuals and families for selecting birth cohorts and tracking them through time. At MCHP, both the mother's identification number - an encrypted PHIN (Personal Heath Information Number) - and the fami... |
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Employment and Income Assistance (EIA)
(3 points) (Concept) The provincial Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) program is a last resort for people who need help to meet basic personal and family needs. Wherever possible, the program is aimed at helping people find a job or get back to work. Eligibility fo... |
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Obesity: Measuring Prevalence Using Body Mass Index (BMI)
(3 points) (Concept) This concept describes how the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) measures obesity using the body mass index (BMI) . It discusses data sources used and how BMI has been defined for adults and c... |
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Costing Methods: An Overview of Costing Health Services in Manitoba
(3 points) (Concept) This concept provides an overview of the different costing methods for health care services that have been used in MCHP research over time. Links to additional information are provided throughout the concept. The overview is divided into two majo... |
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Intellectual Disability (ID) (Mental Retardation) / Developmental Disability (DD) / Developmental Disorders / Intellectual or Developmental Disability (IDD)
(3 points) (Concept) This concept briefly describes the conditions of intellectual disability (mental retardation) / developmental disability / developmental disorders, and provides operational definitions used in research that utilizes the Manitoba Centre for Health Po... |
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) - Measuring Treatment Prevalence
(3 points) (Concept) This concept identifies data sources and diagnostic codes used to identify cases of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in research conducted by the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP). This information can be used to estimate the prevalence of trea... |
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Special Needs Children - Method of Identification from Education Data
(3 points) (Concept) This concept briefly discusses the Special Needs data available in the Education database at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP). It provides a description of guidelines and criteria used by Manitoba Education to identify children with spec... |
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Disability - Data Sources for Measuring Prevalence
(3 points) (Concept) This concept identifies and discusses possible data sources for identifying individuals with disabilities. This includes a look at survey information from Statistics Canada and from a variety of databases available in the Manitoba Population Resear... |
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