Reference documents
Reference documents help users gain a better understanding of geographic concepts, products and services appropriate to their data needs. This includes reference guides for most geography products that describe the content, applications, data quality and record layouts of their respective product.
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Geography Catalogue
The Geography Catalogue highlights what is new for geographic products, as well as links to all of the many census geography-related products.
Illustrated Glossary
The Illustrated Glossary provides users with definitions of the terms related to geographic concepts along with illustrated representations to aid in their understanding.
Census learning centre: Geography
Concept training videos help users learn about geography concepts, how the concepts relate to census data and how to use geography products to their full potential.
Reference guides
The reference guides describe the content, applications, data quality and record layouts of most geography products.
Attribute domain values
Many dissemination products contain coded values that may be difficult to interpret by some users. The domain values page presents a list of the different coded values that can be found, along with their corresponding description.
Interim List of Changes
The Interim List of Changes to Municipal Boundaries, Status and Names provides a summary of the changes to census subdivisions such as municipal boundary or name changes that were processed since the production of the previous Interim List.
Working papers
The Geography working paper series is intended to inform users on a variety of topics covering conceptual, methodological or technical work to support the development and dissemination of geographic data, products and services.
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