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Census Dictionary - Definitions by universe
Population
Introduction to the population universe
- Age
- Census farm
- Common-law status
- Date of birth
- Farm operator
- Institutional resident
- Legal marital status
- Marital status
- Presence of children
- Relationship to household reference person (Person 1)
- Rural farm population
- Sex
- Usual place of residence
- First official language spoken
- Home language
- Home language - Part A
- Home language - Part B
- Knowledge of official languages
- Mother tongue
Family
Household
Dwelling
Introduction to the dwelling universe
- Collective dwelling
- Dwelling
- Dwelling, marginal, occupied by usual residents
- Dwelling, private
- Dwelling, private, occupied by foreign residents and/or by temporarily present persons
- Dwelling, private, occupied by usual residents
- Dwelling, regular
- Dwelling, unoccupied private
- Structural type of dwelling
Geography
Introduction to the geography universe
- Adjusted counts
- Block-face
- Cartographic boundary files (CBFs)
- Census agglomeration (CA)
- Census agricultural region (CAR)
- Census consolidated subdivision (CCS)
- Census division (CD)
- Census metropolitan area (CMA) and census agglomeration (CA)
- Census metropolitan influenced zone (MIZ)
- Census subdivision – previous census
- Census subdivision (CSD)
- Census tract (CT)
- Coordinate system
- Core, fringe and rural area
- Datum
- Designated place (DPL)
- Digital boundary files (DBFs)
- Dissemination area (DA)
- Dissemination block (DB)
- Economic region (ER)
- Ecumene
- Federal electoral district (FED)
- Forward sortation area (FSA)©
- Geocoding
- Geographic code
- Geographic reference date
- Geographical region of Canada
- Land area
- Locality (LOC)
- Map projection
- National Geographic Database (NGD)
- Place name (PN)
- Population centre (POPCTR)
- Population density
- Postal codeOM
- Province or territory
- Reference map
- Representative point
- Road network file (RNF)
- Rural area (RA)
- Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
- Spatial data quality elements
- Standard Geographical Classification (SGC)
- Statistical Area Classification (SAC)
- Thematic map
- Urban area (UA)
- Urban core, urban fringe and rural fringe
- Urban population size group
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