The Ministry reports the breakdown of the BC Employment and Assistance program each month by region. This data is from 1997 and assumes existing regions for all historical data (back casted). Cases, recipients and dependent children are reported for the Ministry regions. Refer to the "Ministry of Social Development Region Boundaries" Data Catalogue entry for region boundaries. The Ministry no longer uses a 'regional' model for service delivery. As such, this is just maintained for historical purposes.