{
  "id": "regular-health-care-provider",
  "category": "Health care access",
  "title": "Adults with a regular health care provider",
  "geography": "British Columbia (province-wide)",
  "scope": "province",
  "levels": [
    "Provincial (health system)"
  ],
  "plain_question": "Out of every 100 adults in B.C., how many say they have a family doctor or nurse practitioner they see regularly?",
  "value": 79.9,
  "display_value": "79.9%",
  "unit": "% of adults 18 and over",
  "period": "Calendar year 2024",
  "period_start": "2024-01-01",
  "period_end": "2024-12-31",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "Calendar year 2023",
    "previous_value": 81.6,
    "change_percent": -1.7,
    "change_unit": "percentage points"
  },
  "trend": "worsening",
  "trend_basis": "79.9% in 2024 compared with 81.6% in 2023.",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "right_direction": "A higher number means more adults have a regular health care provider.",
  "caveats": [
    "This comes from a Statistics Canada survey, so it is an estimate with a margin of error. Small year-to-year changes may not be meaningful.",
    "The figure is for all of B.C. A Victoria or Island Health figure is not available as a yearly open series (see the Methods page).",
    "A newer survey year may be listed by Statistics Canada before its value is published; this page shows the latest year with a published value."
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2015",
      "value": 83.8
    },
    {
      "period": "2016",
      "value": 83.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2017",
      "value": 81.8
    },
    {
      "period": "2018",
      "value": 81.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2019",
      "value": 82.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2020",
      "value": 80.6
    },
    {
      "period": "2021",
      "value": 83.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2022",
      "value": 83.2
    },
    {
      "period": "2023",
      "value": 81.6
    },
    {
      "period": "2024",
      "value": 79.9
    }
  ],
  "refresh_frequency": "Annually",
  "data_published": "2025-08-06",
  "source": {
    "name": "Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey",
    "url": "https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/survey/household/3226",
    "dataset_url": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/07bf1adb-c6a5-4e91-8911-5565f4e38e0f",
    "table_url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1310090501",
    "table": "13-10-0905-01"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Open Government Licence - Canada",
    "url": "https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada"
  },
  "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 13-10-0905-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11T06:52:37Z"
}