Births Through British Columbia's Covid-19 Pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorClarke, Colton
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-07T21:04:47Z
dc.date.available2022-09-07T21:04:47Z
dc.date.copyright2022en_US
dc.date.issued2022-09-07
dc.description.abstractUsing information gathered on government sites for monthly births by local health area (LCA), yearly population, and unemployment rates, and using local public newspapers for lockdown and travel restriction severity, we perform several regressions that help us determine how the pandemic changed birth rates. Creating a forecasting model for the expected birth rates had the pandemic not happened, but the unemployment rates stayed as they were in the pandemic, for 2020 and 2021, we show different trends based on different census metropolitan areas and British Columbia overall. From November 2020 to December 2021, we find that approximately 95 births are missing in British Columbia overall but there is quite a bit of regional variation, with 1114 missing births in Vancouver, 47 missing births in Victoria, 100 extra births in Abbotsford/Mission, and 280 extra births in Kelowna in that same period.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduateen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipValerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Awards (VKURA)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/14198
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectCovid
dc.subjectCovid-19
dc.subjectBC
dc.subjectBritish Columbia
dc.subjectbirth
dc.subjectbirths
dc.subjectVancouver
dc.subjectVictoria
dc.subjectKelowna
dc.subjectAbbotsford
dc.subjectMission
dc.subjectbaby
dc.subjectbabies
dc.subjecteconomics
dc.subjectfamily
dc.subjectunemployment
dc.subjectpopulation
dc.subjecttravel
dc.subjectrestriction
dc.subjectrestrictions
dc.subjectlockdown
dc.subjectfertility
dc.subjectValerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Awards (VKURA)
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Economics
dc.titleBirths Through British Columbia's Covid-19 Pandemicen_US
dc.typePosteren_US

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