Posted in Population and Demography on Sep 16th, 2010
Question I have a researcher looking for Census data for the town of Churchill, Manitoba between 1901 and 1996. I can access the complete Census from 1901 and 1961-1996 through the FTP, but I was unsure if Census data were available between 1901 and 1961. They are only, as far as I know, in print [...]
Posted in Reference on Nov 13th, 2009
Question (…) the area of the Saskatoon CMA from 1996-2001 went from 5322.09km in 96 to 5192.22km in 01. What caused this decline? We have thrown around many ideas and rationalisations, however we did not have a definitive answer. Answer I received the following information from our geography consultants in response to your question: “The [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Reference on Nov 13th, 2009
Question I have a research needing to know the number of farms in North Saanich, Central Saanich, and Saanich, from 1976 – 2006. ESTAT provides this information for the 2006 Census of Agriculture using the Provinces by Census Consolidated Subdivision geography option. How do I get the same data back to 1976? Question: Updated I [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Oct 23rd, 2009
Question A group of students is looking for information on very high income Canadians – annual income of $2 million or more. Is there any resource (not necessarily StatCan based) which would provide access to this? I suggested that housing value might be used as a proxy – but even then, the StatCan data is [...]
Posted in Families, Households and Housing, Population and Demography on Oct 2nd, 2009
Question A researcher requires Census data at the Block level. In addition to population and dwelling counts, he would like sex and age data, by block, and other information about the buildings. The researcher has identified the set of Victoria CT’s and DA of interest. “Here is the data request, in the researcher’s own words: [...]
Posted in Reference on Mar 27th, 2009
Question I am trying to get my hands on the questionnaires (long and short forms) for the 1986 and 1991 censuses but cannot locate them on the FTP server. Have they been posted there and if so in what folder and under what name? I found the 1981 questionnaires easily but just could not locate [...]
Posted in Reference on Feb 27th, 2009
**Note: Correspondence translated from its original French.** Question We’re currently working with the user summary tapes in the 1981 Census. I can’t find any associated documentation to some of the files on the FTP site. For the following files, we need the French equivalent of these documents: c1981bst-ea-b10indoc.pdf c1981bst-ea-b30indoc.pdf c1981bst-ea-b40indoc.pdf For the file CTH81A10, there [...]
Posted in Reference on Feb 9th, 2009
Question I’ve been asked for 1981 census data for Wallaceburg, Ontario. I’m trying to determine its geographical level back in 1981, but my print editions only go back to 1986, and I can’t find anything online. In 1986 it was a CA. Could someone be so kind as to look up Wallaceburg for me in [...]
Posted in Reference on Jan 26th, 2009
Question A student here is looking for information on EAs from the 1981 Census. Ideally, she would like a boundary file that covers the Skeena FED (59021). The EAs she is looking for are 101-116. I have checked the geography directory on the FTP site, and, among the 1981 files, there seems to be an [...]
Posted in Reference on Jan 16th, 2009
Question I have a graduate student who wants all possible profile data for the community of Houston (BC) for 1971-1991. I think we’re OK for everything but 1971. If the figures exist in print, we should have them on microfiche. I checked the 1971 catalogue on Laine’s site at http://prod.library.utoronto.ca:8090/datalib/codebooks/c/cc71/cen71pub.pdf, and I’m not seeing any [...]