University of Toronto. Data Library Service

Title: Geography tape file, 1986

Series title: Census of Canada, 1986

Principal investigator(s): Statistics Canada. Geography Division

Producer: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Geography Division

Date of creation: 1989-07-25

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Distributor: Toronto, Ont.: CARL Consortium for the 1986 Census of Canada

Date of distribution: 1989-09-19

Access conditions/restrictions: versity of Toronto faculty, students and staff, for academic research and teaching purposes only. See DLI licence.

Summary: Assigns to each 1986 census enumeration area all higher geographic levels by codes and names. The final 1986 population and occupied private dwelling counts for each EA are also included.

For each of the EAs, the codes and names of the following census geostatistical areas are identified: federal electoral district (FED), census division (CD), census consolidated subdivision (CCS), census subdivision (CSD) and, where applicable, the census metropolitan area (CMA) or census agglomeration (CA), primary census metropolitan area (PCMA) or primary census agglomeration (PVCA) as well as the urban area. Furthermore, the number and code of each census tract (CT) or provincial census tract (PCT) is identified. The Statistics Canada subprovincial region code for each EA is also included in this file.

Where applicable, the population of the CSD, CMA/CA and urban area in which the EA is located is also identified.

The following additional geographic information is also provided for each EA: population centroids (by Universal Transverse Mercator and Lambert Conformal coordinates and by latitutde and longitude) and National Topographic System map number.

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Geographic coverage: Canada, provinces and territories, enumeration area

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Date(s) of collection: 1986

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Data type: reference

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Unit of observation: enumeration area

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Extent of file: 1 data files (44,042 logical records) & accompanying documentation (codebook & SAS, SPSS syntax files)

Citation: Statistics Canada Geography tape file, 1986 [computer file]. Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Geography Division [producer]; Toronto, Ont.: CARL Consortium for the 1986 census of Canada [disseminator], 1989.