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Title: Census of Canada, 2001: profile files (D. Kendal ed. 2005)

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Principal investigator(s): Statistics Canada

Producer: Don Kendal, Department of Geography, Ryerson University

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Distributor: Ryerson University. Library. Maps and Data Resources

Date of distribution: 2007-11-14

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

Summary: Selected variables from the Census of Canada, 2001 profile files at the DA and CT levels, for selected CMAs.

Geographic coverage: Canada: Hamilton, Kitchener, Moncton, Oshawa, Quebec City, Regina, Saskatoon, Saint John's, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Windsor.

Time period: 2001-05

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Data type: aggregate statistics

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Unit of observation: census tract and dissemination area

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Notes: The boundary files are the Cartographic Boundary Files, 2001 Census published by Statistics Canada and distributed by DMTI. The original projection is Geographic, DATUM is NAD 83, and the co-ordinates are Latitude/Longitude.

Removal of Duplicates
In order to ensure that each CT was only one polygon, each CMA was dissolved before joining the attribute tables ("profiles") to the cartographic boundaries so that data were not duplicated for each separate polygon.

Creation of Profiles
The "profiles" are not exactly the same profiles as found in the original data released by Statistics Canada in Beyond 20/20 format:
1. Some of the Beyond 20/20 profiles had more than 256 fields and therefore could not to be transferred directly to dbase files (maximum of 256 fields). The original seven sets of variables were expanded to twelve. Also the Income variable list contained the median and average income more than once. Some of these duplicates were removed. Also the average housing value variable was moved to the Marital status and housing set. The Language list of variables has had some languages, for which there are a very small number of speakers, removed. This mainly affected native languages. The original table has to be consulted to get the numbers.


2. The field headings used in Beyond 20/20 allowed 256 characters, whereas dbase allows only 10. Consequently the field names had to be drastically truncated. Headings of 8 characters were created to allow for the automatic addition of such characters as "z" if the field is converted to z-scores in SPSS.

Note About Projection
Most of the work in developing thematic maps using CMA data is done by projecting the data to UTM, NAD 83 with the appropriate zone. Users should be aware that, when bringing any of these CMA shapefiles into ArcMap, the projection last used may automatically be adopted for the new data in that layer. Alternatively, the data may come with the original Geographic projection (in Lat/Long with decimal degree map units) and need to be given an appropriate projection should distance or area measurements be required. Printed maps will look better with the proper UTM Zone projected. An incorrect UTM zone will make the map look tilted and odd or may make the map disappear” entirely.

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Part 1: documentation
- background 
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/doc/Background-Please%20Read.txt
- background  (MSWord format)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/doc/Background-Please%20Read.doc
- 2001 CT data dictionary 
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/doc/2001_CT_data_dictionary.txt
- 2001 CT data dictionary (MSWord format)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/doc/2001_CT_data_dictionary.doc
- 2001 DA data dictionary (MSWord format)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/doc/2001_DA_dictionary.doc
Part 2: CT-level data files
- Hamilton (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_cma_ct/hamilton.zip
- Kitchener (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_cma_ct/kitchener.zip
- Moncton (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_cma_ct/moncton.zip
- Oshawa (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_cma_ct/oshawa.zip
- Quebec City (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_cma_ct/quebec.zip
- Regina (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_cma_ct/regina.zip
- Saskatoon (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_cma_ct/saskatoon.zip
- Saint John's (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_cma_ct/st_johns.zip
- Thunder Bay (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_cma_ct/thunder_bay.zip
- Toronto (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_cma_ct/toronto.zip
- Vancouver (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_cma_ct/vancouver.zip
- Winnipeg (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_cma_ct/wiinnipeg.zip
- Windsor (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_cma_ct/windsor.zip
Part 3: DA-level data files
- city to DA (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_da/citytodaav.zip
- CMA to DA (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_da/cmatodaav.zip
- education variables (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_da/daeducationav.zip
- ethnicity variables (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_da/daethnicityav.zip
- household variables (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_da/dahouseholdav.zip
- immigration variables (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_da/daimmigrationav.zip
- income variables (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_da/daincomeav.zip
- labour force variables (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_da/dalabourforceav.zip
- labour force education variables (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_da/dalabourforcemiscav.zip
- language variables (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_da/dalanguageav.zip
- mobility variables (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_da/damobilityav.zip
- occupation variables (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_da/daoccupationav.zip
- population variables (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_da/dapopulationav.zip
- religion variables (shape file format)(WinZipped)
file://prod/utm/ryerson_kendal/2001/2001_da/dareligionav.zip