Friday, October 17, 2008

Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) File Inquiry

Question

A researcher at Laurentian University wants to know if it's possible to get the Individuals file (2001) data for the Kingston Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). She was looking at the Individuals file documentation and Kingston is not available. Is it included somewhere else?

Answer

According to the User Guide, the 2001 Census PUMF (Individuals) contained information for selected CMAs only:

"The user will find information only for selected census metropolitan areas, the provinces and the territories".

Kingston was one of the smaller CMAs not selected for inclusion in the 2001 PUMF. However, microdata for Kingston would be available through the Research Data Centres.

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