Table 1.
Major Canadian Health Databases
| Type | Name | Participants | Start Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cohort | Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project | 300,000 | 2000–2009 |
| Cohort | Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging | 50,000 | 2010 |
| Cohort | Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development Study | 10,059 | 2008 |
| Cohort | All Our Babies and All Our Families | 6774 | 2008 |
| Cohort | Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition | 5841 | 2009 |
| Cohort | TARGet Kids! | 5062 | 2008 |
| Cohort | Ontario Birth Study | 2748 | 2013 |
| Cohort | 3D Study - Design, Develop, Discover | 2456 | 2010 |
| Cohort | Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals | 2000 | 2008 |
| Cohort | Canadian Cohort of Obstructive Lung Disease | 1400 | 2009 |
| Cohort - administrative | Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (1991) | 2,500,000 | 1991 |
| Cohort - administrative | Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (1996) | 3,500,000 | 1996 |
| Cross-sectional survey | Canadian Health Measures Survey | 23,000 | 2007–2015 |
| Linked Administrative Database | Population Data BC | > 5,000,000 | 1980s |
| Linked Administrative Database | Manitoba Centre for Health Policy | > 1,000,000 | 1970s |
| Linked Administrative Database | Institute for Clinical Evaluative Science | 13,000,000 | 1986 |
| Network (26 pregnancy and birth cohorts) | Research Advancement Through Cohort Cataloguing and Harmonization | ~ 125,000 | varies |