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Representative point
Modified on January 4, 2010
Part A - Plain language definition:
Not applicable
Part B - Detailed definition:
A representative point is a point that represents a line or a polygon. The point is centrally located along the line, and centrally located or population weighted in the polygon.
Representative points are generated for block-faces, dissemination blocks, dissemination areas, census subdivisions, urban areas and designated places.
Households, postal codes and place of work data are linked to block-face representative points when the street and address information is available; otherwise, they are linked to dissemination block (DB) representative points. In some cases, postal codes and place of work data are linked to dissemination area (DA) representative points when they cannot be linked to DBs. As well, place of work data are linked to census subdivision representative points when the data cannot be linked to DAs.
