Data Collection

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Dentist Office Locations

Dentist office locations required manual extraction through simulated user interaction with scripted macros. The result of using scripts and due to organization, over 99% of dentist locations had been successfully extracted.

Oral Biopsy Locations

Oral Biopsy location was extracted from OBS path records in 2006 and 2014 through the BC Cancer Research Center with considerable help from Jade Lavallee.

Population Statistics

Census data from 2011 were used from Statistics Canada for the generation of the Deprivation Index. Dissemination area data from 2006 and 2014 from Statistics Canada were used for accessibility analysis.

Contact Us

Our team consists of three undergraduate students from Simon Fraser University, although we will have graduated by the end of this project, please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. We will do our best to help.

Address:Department of Geography, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC
Reuben French: reubenf@sfu.ca
Andrew Kwok: ack10@sfu.ca
Toby Zhang: tobyz@sfu.ca