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Census divisions - Canada
This dataset is part of the geographical reference collection maintained by Opendatasoft, a data-platform provider that republishes official geographic reference data. It covers all Census Divisions (CDs) in Canada, the general term used by Statistics Canada for provincially legislated administrative areas such as counties, municipalités régionales de comté, and regional districts, or their equivalents in provinces without such legislated divisions. The dataset provides boundary and identification data for these divisions, useful for geographic analysis, mapping, and statistical aggregation at the sub-provincial level across Canada. It is distributed as open data with no authentication required for access.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: ["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 2year: 2021 · cd_code: ["4621"]
{
"year": "2021",
"cd_code": [
"4621"
],
"cd_type": "Census division / Division de recensement",
"geo_shape": "[large value omitted]",
"prov_code": [
"46"
],
"cd_name_en": [
"Division No. 21"
],
"cd_name_fr": "Division No. 21",
"cd_area_code": "CAN",
"geo_point_2d": {
"lat": 54.212153447601054,
"lon": -100.14214667459305
},
"prov_name_en": [
"Manitoba"
],
"prov_name_fr": "Manitoba"
}Record 3year: 2021 · cd_code: ["4706"]
{
"year": "2021",
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"4706"
],
"cd_type": "Census division / Division de recensement",
"geo_shape": {
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"geometry": {
"type": "Polygon",
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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": {
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"lon": -104.36604921981659
},
"prov_name_en": [
"Saskatchewan"
],
"prov_name_fr": "Saskatchewan"
}Record 4year: 2021 · cd_code: ["4819"]
{
"year": "2021",
"cd_code": [
"4819"
],
"cd_type": "Census division / Division de recensement",
"geo_shape": "[large value omitted]",
"prov_code": [
"48"
],
"cd_name_en": [
"Division No. 19"
],
"cd_name_fr": "Division No. 19",
"cd_area_code": "CAN",
"geo_point_2d": {
"lat": 55.655213790993145,
"lon": -118.68267146591766
},
"prov_name_en": [
"Alberta"
],
"prov_name_fr": "Alberta"
}Record 5year: 2021 · cd_code: ["1308"]
{
"year": "2021",
"cd_code": [
"1308"
],
"cd_type": "County / Comté",
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},
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"Kent"
],
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"prov_name_en": [
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"prov_name_fr": "Nouveau-Brunswick"
}Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
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- 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
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observed 7 days 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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