CENSUS SUBDIVISIONS (CSD) - CBF

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Description:

The Census Subdivision Cartographic Boundary File for Canada contains the boundaries of all 5,600 census subdivisions for the 2001 Census. A census subdivision is an administrative area, which is a component of the Standard Geographic Classification and comprised of dissemination areas. Census subdivision is the general term for municipalities (as determined by provincial legislation) or areas treated as municipal equivalents for statistical purposes (for example, Indian reserves, Indian settlements and unorganized territories).

The Census Subdivision Cartographic Boundary File consists of polygons representing the census subdivisions. Every polygon encoded as part of the land area of Canada has a CSDuid (a code to uniquely identify census subdivisions) associated with it. The Census Subdivision Boundary File is available for Canada and by Province / Territory as well as Census Metropolitan Areas and tracted Census Agglomerations. The national Census Subdivision Boundary File consists of polygons representing census subdivisions. There are more polygons than census subdivisions primarily because of the additional polygons needed to represent islands.

(Source: Statistics Canada 2002)

The Data are available in Arc/Info(r) Export format (*.E00), or in MapInfo(r) Format in the Lambert Projection or in the Latitude / Longitude Projection.

In the TDR the following products are stored:

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