Statistics Canada
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Statistics Canada is the Canadian federal government bureau commissioned with gathering and analysing statistics about Canada. The bureau is commonly called StatCan.
Statistics is a federal responsibility in Canada and StatCan produces statistics for all the provinces as well as the federal government.
Among other responsibilities, StatCan undertakes a country-wide census every five years on the first and sixth year of each decade. The last Canadian census was in 2001; the next one will be in 2006 and will be the first census ever to use the internet for questionnaires.
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Terms
StatsCan uses a variety of terms to designate regions in Canada for statistical purposes:
- Census Agglomeration - Metropolitan areas smaller than 100,000 people
- Census Metropolitan Area - Metropolitan areas greater than 100,000 people
- Census division - Collection of census subdivisions
- Census subdivision - Cities, towns, municipalities, etc.
- City
- Chartered community - found in the Northwest Territories
- County municipality - rural territories in Alberta
- Community - villages in Prince Edward Island
- Canton - Townships in Quebec
- United cantons - Townships which have been united in Quebec
- District municipality - Rural or urban territories of British Columbia
- Hamlet - Small communities in the territories
- Improvement district - Rural territories in Alberta
- Indian government district - found in British Columbia
- Island municipality
- Local government district - found in Manitoba
- Township and royalty - Rural territories in Prince Edward Island
- Municipality - Rural territories in Quebec
- Municipal district - Rural territories in Alberta and Nova Scotia
- Northern hamlet - found in Saskatchewan
- Nisga'a land
- Northern village - found in Saskatchewan and Quebec (Village nordique)
- Nisga'a village - found in British Columbia
- Parish - rural territories in Quebec (Parish municipalities) and New Brunswick
- Indian reserve
- Rural community
- Regional district electoral area - Unorganized rural areas in British Columbia
- Region
- Regional municipality - At the CSD level, an amalgation of a large region. Found in Alberta and Nova Scotia
- Rural municipality - rural territories in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
- Resort vilage - found in Saskatchewan
- Indian settlement
- Special area - rural territories in Alberta
- Subdivision of county municipality - rural territories of Alberta
- Settlement - small communities in the territories
- Subdivision of unorganized - unorganized rural territories of Nefoundland and Labrador
- Summer village - found in Alberta
- Town
- Inuit land - found in Quebec
- Teslin land
- Township - At the CSD level, only in Ontario
- Reserve lands - found in Quebec
- Unorganized area
- Ville - cities and towns in Quebec
- Cree village - found in Quebec
- Naksapi village
- Village
- Urban area
- Designated place
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See also
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External link
- Statistics Canada website (http://www.statcan.ca/)
