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2006, 2001
The MIZ is a concept applied, for statistical analysis purposes, to CSDs outside CMAs and CAs. Previously all CSDs in Canada were either a component of a CMA or CA or not (outside CMAs and CAs). The MIZ provides users with a more detailed geographic identity for the CSDs outside CMAs and CAs. As with CMAs and CAs, the allocation of a CSD to a MIZ category was determined using commuting flows of the resident employed labour force derived from the 2001 Census place of work data.
The calculation of the commuting flows for MIZ differs somewhat from the calculation used for CSD inclusion in CMAs/CAs. The percentages of the resident employed labour force living in a particular CSD outside CMAs and CAs and working in the urban core of any CMA/CA are combined to determine the degree of influence that one or more CMAs/CAs have on that CSD, as follows:
Table 3 shows the number of census subdivisions by MIZ category for Canada, provinces and territories.
Table 3 Number of census subdivisions by the Statistical Area Classification, 2006 Census
Refer to the related definitions of census metropolitan area (CMA) and census agglomeration (CA); census subdivision (CSD); Statistical Area Classification (SAC); and urban core, urban fringe and rural fringe, and to the geographic working paper entitled Census Metropolitan Area and Census Agglomeration Influenced Zones (MIZ): A Description of the Methodology (Catalogue no. 92F0138MIE2000002).
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