Indicator Metadata

Health Care Providers Employed in Direct Care, by Age Group

Health Care Provider Distribution by Age Group

Number of health care providers employed in the profession and working in direct care, by age group and type of provider

Number of health care providers working in direct care, sorted by 5-year age groups

Unit of Analysis: Service provider

Place of service

Number - Number of health care providers in defined age groups (e.g., <30, 30–34, 35–39)

None

Not applicable

Description:
Predefined age groups

Description:
Number of health care providers employed in the profession and working in direct care
Inclusions:

• Active registered health care providers employed in the profession and working in direct care.

Additional inclusion criteria vary by type of provider.

Exclusions:

• Inactive registrants or health care providers who did not register in a province or territory,
• Health care providers who did not report year of birth and/or age at time of registration.

Additional exclusion criteria vary by type of provider.

Based on World Health Organization (WHO) National Health Workforce Accounts indicator 1-07: Percentage of Active Health Workers in Different Age Groups, by Cadre and Sex, this indicator can support health human resources decision-makers in research on retirement levels, support projection modeling and influence recruitment campaigns.

Descriptive information on the proportion of health care providers in each defined age group. May reflect education trends and/or recruitment/retention initiatives for health care providers.

Health System Inputs and Characteristics: Health system resources

Not applicable

WHO: Distribution by age

World Health Organization. National Health Workforce Accounts: A Handbook. 2016.

World Health Organization. Global Strategy on Health Resources for Health: Workforce 2030. 2016.

HWDB

Type of Year:

First Available Year:
2010
Last Available Year:
2019

All provinces/territories

National, Province/Territory, Provider; may be further aggregated by highest level of education, setting of employment, urban/rural/remote, etc.

Every year

Web Tool:
Health workforce data tables
URL: https://www.cihi.ca/en/health-workforce

Not applicable

Statistics reported may differ from those reported by other organizations due to differences in data collection and reporting methodologies.

Issues of under- and/or over-coverage may vary by type of provider.

Data is not necessarily available for each province and territory for each type of provider.

Vary by type of provider.

Please note that the available data years, geographic coverage, reporting level/disaggregation and update frequency vary by type of provider.

“Available data year” can refer to data year (for nurses) or to reporting year (for occupational therapists, physiotherapists and pharmacists).