Question
A student here would like to be able to use the statistics underlying the historical age pyramid at https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/pyramid-pyramide/his/index-eng.cfm. Specifically, he would like to have population by single years of age by gender for each year (1921 through 2011).
I found Age Groups (13) and Sex (3) for the population of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 1921 to 2011 Census (http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/tbt-tt/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=102186&PRID=0&PTYPE=101955&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2011&THEME=88&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=), but suspect that he wants the individual years of age rather age groups.
Are these time series available, or would requesting them require a special tabulation?
Answer
I have been unable to find the time series for individual years dating back to 1921. These series seem to be available for age groups.
For individual years I found online:
Topic-based tabulation: Age (131) and Sex (3) for the Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 and 2011 Censuses
98-311-XCB2011021
Age (123) and Sex (3) for Population, for Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 1996 and 2001 Censuses - 100% Data - Cat. No. 97F0003XCB2001001.
Others for age for 2001 census
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/english/census01/Products/standard/themes/DataProducts.cfm?S=1&T=37&ALEVEL=2&FREE=0
If they were to obtain a custom tabulation from the Regional offices, they would however only be able to get tables as far back as 1971.
