Thursday, March 14, 2019

Census Data (custom tabs in ODESI)

Question:
I have a researcher working with the tables giving the number of jobs located in each DA for 2006 and 2016(Place of Work DA from http://odesi2.scholarsportal.info/documentation/CENSUS/2016/cen16labour.html and http://odesi2.scholarsportal.info/documentation/CENSUS/2006/TBT/B2020/DOCS/cenb06labour.html), and they have noted a number of DAs missing. The notes section indicates that communities with fewer than 40 people are not included, but given that this data is for place of work are DAs not included if fewer than 40 people report the DA as their place of work (that is my reading based on the data in the table, but I would like to confirm)? If so, is there a possibility of a custom tab to get this data?

DAs missing from tables:

2016:

59530104

59530023

59530206

59530208

59530051

59530055

59530047

59530086

2006 and 2016:

59530049

59530050

Answer:
Subject matter confirmed the following:
Thank you for your query. You are correct. Place of work geography suppression is done on the employed labour force population who worked at home or had a usual place of work, not on the residential population. The minimum population threshold is 40 for any data.

A custom table would not have data for geographies suppressed under this rule.