University of Toronto. Data Library Service

Title: Postal code conversion file plus (PCCF+), version 5E, with postal codes through March 2009

Alternate title: PCCF+ version 5E : automated geographic coding based on the Statistics Canada Postal Code Conversion Files, including postal codes through March 2009

Alternate title: Health PCCF+

Series title: Postal code conversion file (PCCF) plus

Principal investigator(s): Wilkins, Russell

Producer: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Health Information and Research Division (82F0086XDB)

Date of creation: 2009-06-29

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Distributor: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Data Liberation Initiative

Date of distribution: 2009-07-21

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

Summary: PCCF+ Version 5 consists of a SAS control program and a series of reference files derived from the most recent Statistics Canada Postal Code Conversion File (PCCF) and a 2006 postal code population weight file (WCF). It automatically assigns a full range of geographic identifiers (down to dissemination area, dissemination block, and latitude, longitude) based on postal codes. It is consistent and logical in the way it does this. Any incorrect coding due to errors in the underlying reference files can easily be corrected once identified.

When the association between the postal code and census geography is not unique, the PCCF+ allows for a proportional allocation based on the population count.

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Geographic coverage: Canada, provinces and territories, dissemination areas, dissemination blocks

Time period: 2006

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Date(s) of collection: 2009-03

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Data type: metadata

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Unit of observation: dissemination block

Mode of data collection: process produced

Extent of file: 14 data files (number of logical records varies) & accompanying documentation

Citation: Statistics Canada. Postal code conversion file plus (PCCF+), version 5E, with postal codes through September 2008 [computer file]. Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada [producer]; Statistics Canada. Data Liberation Initiative [distributor], 2009-07.