Census divisions - Canada

Name: Census divisions - Canada
Creator: opendatasoft

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This dataset is part of the Geographical repository maintained by Opendatasoft. This dataset contains data for all Census Divisions in Canada. Census division (CD) is the general term for provincially legislated areas (such as county, municipalité régionale de comté and regional district) or thei...

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Data schema (11 fields)

Filterable via the API (9)

yearprov_codeprov_name_encd_codecd_name_encd_area_codecd_typecd_name_frprov_name_fr

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Fill	Field	Type	Description
—	geo_point_2dGeo Point	geo_point_2d	—
—	geo_shapeShape	geo_shape	—
—	year	date	—
—	prov_codeOfficial Code Province / Territory	text	—
—	prov_name_enOfficial Name Province / Territory (English)	text	—
—	cd_codeOfficial Code Census Division	text	—
—	cd_name_enOfficial Name Census Division (English)	text	—
—	cd_area_codeIso 3166-3 Area Code	text	—
—	cd_typeType (English / French)	text	—
—	cd_name_frOfficial Name Census Division (French)	text	—
100%	prov_name_frOfficial Name Province / Territory (French)	text	—

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Sample data (5 records)

Record 1year: 2021 · cd_code: ["1315"]

{
  "year": "2021",
  "cd_code": [
    "1315"
  ],
  "cd_type": "County / Comté",
  "geo_shape": "[large value omitted]",
  "prov_code": [
    "13"
  ],
  "cd_name_en": [
    "Gloucester"
  ],
  "cd_name_fr": "Gloucester",
  "cd_area_code": "CAN",
  "geo_point_2d": {
    "lat": 47.56960433608995,
    "lon": -65.43192271804946
  },
  "prov_name_en": [
    "New Brunswick"
  ],
  "prov_name_fr": "Nouveau-Brunswick"
}

Record 2year: 2021 · cd_code: ["4706"]

{
  "year": "2021",
  "cd_code": [
    "4706"
  ],
  "cd_type": "Census division / Division de recensement",
  "geo_shape": {
    "type": "Feature",
    "geometry": {
      "type": "Polygon",
      "coordinates": [
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          [
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          ]
        ]
      ]
    },
    "properties": {}
  },
  "prov_code": [
    "47"
  ],
  "cd_name_en": [
    "Division No.  6"
  ],
  "cd_name_fr": "Division No.  6",
  "cd_area_code": "CAN",
  "geo_point_2d": {
    "lat": 50.598125492075255,
    "lon": -104.36604921981659
  },
  "prov_name_en": [
    "Saskatchewan"
  ],
  "prov_name_fr": "Saskatchewan"
}

Record 3year: 2021 · cd_code: ["4620"]

{
  "year": "2021",
  "cd_code": [
    "4620"
  ],
  "cd_type": "Census division / Division de recensement",
  "geo_shape": "[large value omitted]",
  "prov_code": [
    "46"
  ],
  "cd_name_en": [
    "Division No. 20"
  ],
  "cd_name_fr": "Division No. 20",
  "cd_area_code": "CAN",
  "geo_point_2d": {
    "lat": 52.080302002253944,
    "lon": -101.05238093733915
  },
  "prov_name_en": [
    "Manitoba"
  ],
  "prov_name_fr": "Manitoba"
}

Record 4year: 2021 · cd_code: ["3534"]

{
  "year": "2021",
  "cd_code": [
    "3534"
  ],
  "cd_type": "County",
  "geo_shape": {
    "type": "Feature",
    "geometry": {
      "type": "Polygon",
      "coordinates": [
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        ]
      ]
    },
    "properties": {}
  },
  "prov_code": [
    "35"
  ],
  "cd_name_en": [
    "Elgin"
  ],
  "cd_name_fr": "Elgin",
  "cd_area_code": "CAN",
  "geo_point_2d": {
    "lat": 42.7145002556659,
    "lon": -81.22732102558537
  },
  "prov_name_en": [
    "Ontario"
  ],
  "prov_name_fr": "Ontario"
}

Record 5year: 2021 · cd_code: ["4714"]

{
  "year": "2021",
  "cd_code": [
    "4714"
  ],
  "cd_type": "Census division / Division de recensement",
  "geo_shape": "[large value omitted]",
  "prov_code": [
    "47"
  ],
  "cd_name_en": [
    "Division No. 14"
  ],
  "cd_name_fr": "Division No. 14",
  "cd_area_code": "CAN",
  "geo_point_2d": {
    "lat": 53.01654355238673,
    "lon": -103.30936203908192
  },
  "prov_name_en": [
    "Saskatchewan"
  ],
  "prov_name_fr": "Saskatchewan"
}

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Using the API

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Base URL: https://public.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/georef-canada-census-division

License

Terms stated by the source (not a recognized license):

https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/reference/licence

Query examples

curl -s 'https://public.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/georef-canada-census-division/records?limit=20' -H 'Accept: application/json'

First 20 records of the dataset as JSON.

Uses the Opendatasoft Explore v2.1 syntax — supports select, where, group_by and order_by.

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observed 2 hours ago

Dataset

Volume & freshness

Records

293

Update cadence

Irregular

declared upstream

Last upstream update

4 years ago

2023-01-30

Temporal coverage

2016 → 2019

License

No license declared upstream.

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