Question:
We have a student who is looking for the Geographic Attribution File for 2001, we’re having a difficult time locating it so I’m wondering if it exists, we can find other years.
Answer:
Subject Matter has informed us that the 2001 GAF was not disseminated. It was available through GeoSuite as blocks (renamed Dissemination Block in 2006). An Excel file (CB2001.xlsx) of the GeoSuite extraction that was made using GeoSuite 2001 is available on the Statistics Canada website: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/geo/ref/geosuite-eng.cfm. You can download GeoSuite 2001 from the link above, do a name search for Canada, select CB (Census Block) and export the fields needed.
