Posted in Geography on Dec 7th, 2011
Good afternoon! I would like to bring to your attention that last week, on November 29, the Geography Division released some 2011 Geography products: Available today are four geographic products from the 2011 Census: Boundary Files, Road Network File, Correspondence Files and the Interim List of Changes to Municipal Boundaries, Status, and Names. These products [...]
Posted in Population and Demography, Reference on Oct 2nd, 2009
Question I have a question regarding the Urban Areas Rural Areas (UARA) code field in the Postal Code Conversion File. A researcher would like to find out the best way to determine whether a postal code is rural or urban. He wanted to use the UARA field, but is unclear about what a “0″ value [...]
Posted in Economic Accounts on Oct 2nd, 2009
Question A grad student here at the University of Manitoba is doing a thesis on the economy in Northern Manitoba. As most data sources do not have much of a geographical breakdown, he has been looking at the Census (profile) data. This has been somewhat helpful, but he is running into problems when he starts [...]
Posted in Reference on Mar 27th, 2009
Question I received what seems to be a pretty ambitious request from a sociology faculty. He would like to obtain complete cumulative profiles at the CSD level for all census years from 1986 to 2006. Now here is the catch. Ideally he would want the data for every census to be recomputed in terms of [...]
Posted in Health on Mar 20th, 2009
Question We are looking for hospitals in Canada and we also want the information as to size and address. The DMTI layer which has buildings footprints is partially helpful. The Canadian Medical Directory in paper lists 45 pages of hospitals without the information we seek and, by gosh, we don’t want to enter all of [...]
Posted in Reference on Feb 13th, 2009
Question Does anyone know if there are boundary files for CMAs by FSA, and what the path to them would be? Answer I confirmed with our geography consultant that no such file exists. According to the consultant, a user would have to take the two separate layers (CMA and FSA), and join/select the FSA’s within [...]
Posted in Reference on Feb 2nd, 2009
Question I have a couple of questions, which I’m hoping someone with experience in geographical hierarchies might be able to answer – I’ve been asked to find data on Wallaceburg, Ontario. According to GeoSuite Wallaceburg is a Locality and also an Urban Area. It’s in the CA of Chatham-Kent, which is untracted, so I’m presuming [...]
Posted in Reference on Jan 23rd, 2009
Question Can someone tell me if a SPSS syntax file has been created for the March 2008 PCCF? Or will it be created soon? Answer I can confirm that the DLI does not have any SPSS syntax files for the PCCF, nor do we anticipate creating any. However, as Laine suggests below, the SPSS file [...]
Posted in Reference on Jan 23rd, 2009
Question We are having difficulties with the latest PCCF file for Sept 2008. Several hundred postal codes, e.g., for postal codes A1A5K7, A1A5K8 … , have more than one record which are labeled SLI=1 (1 = the best or only record for the postal code) There appears to be a coding problem for the variable [...]
Posted in Reference on Oct 22nd, 2008
Question We have received a request for the 2008 Federal Election Boundary Files. I note that the ESRI Shape File, the ESRI Arc/Info Export File, and the ESRI Arc/Info Coverage file, for the Federal Electoral Districts of Canada (2006 Election) appear to be freely available from the NRC web site at http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/option/select.do?id=1169 In contrast, the [...]