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Censuses:
2006, 2001, 1996, 1991, 1986, 1981, 1976, 1971
Remarks:
Statistics Canada's Custom Area Creation Service provides census data tabulations for user-defined areas, such as provincial electoral districts, local planning areas and school districts. When tabulating census data for user-defined areas, households are included or excluded depending on whether the representative points to which they are linked fall inside or outside the user-defined area (Figure 32). Thus, the data retrieved are most precise when user-defined areas coincide with dissemination block boundaries. Census data for individual block-faces are not disseminated.
Figure 32 Example of data retrieval with user-defined boundaries
Refer to related definitions of block-face; census subdivision (CSD); dissemination area (DA); dissemination block (DB); postal code; representative point and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).
Changes prior to the current census:
Prior to 2001, households, postal codes and place of work data were linked to enumeration area (EA) representative points when they could not be linked to block-face representative points. As well, unrounded block-face population counts were provided for user confirmation before tabulating characteristic data for custom areas.
