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Statistics Canada is the Canadian federal government bureau commissioned with gathering and analysing statistics about Canada. The bureau is commonly called StatCan or StatsCan.

Statistics is a federal responsibility in Canada and StatCan produces statistics for all the provinces as well as the federal government.

Among other responsibilities, StatCan undertakes a country-wide census every five years on the first and sixth year of each decade. The last Canadian census was in 2001; the next one will be in 2006 and will be the first census ever to use the internet for questionnaires.

Terms

StatCan uses a variety of terms to designate regions in Canada for statistical purposes:

  • Census Agglomeration - Metropolitan areas smaller than 100,000 people
  • Census Metropolitan Area - Metropolitan areas greater than 100,000 people
  • Census division - Collection of census subdivisions
  • Census subdivision - Cities, towns, municipalities, etc.
    • City
    • Chartered community - found in the Northwest Territories
    • County municipality - rural territories in Alberta
    • Community - villages in Prince Edward Island
    • Canton - Townships in Quebec
    • United cantons - Townships which have been united in Quebec
    • District municipality - Rural or urban territories of British Columbia
    • Hamlet - Small communities in the territories
    • Improvement district - Rural territories in Alberta
    • Indian government district - found in British Columbia
    • Island municipality
    • Local government district - found in Manitoba
    • Township and royalty - Rural territories in Prince Edward Island
    • Municipality - Rural territories in Quebec
    • Municipal district - Rural territories in Alberta and Nova Scotia
    • Northern hamlet - found in Saskatchewan
    • Nisga'a land
    • Northern village - found in Saskatchewan and Quebec (Village nordique)
    • Nisga'a village - found in British Columbia
    • Parish - rural territories in Quebec (Parish municipalities) and New Brunswick
    • Indian reserve
    • Rural community
    • Regional district electoral area - Unorganized rural areas in British Columbia
    • Region
    • Regional municipality - At the CSD level, an amalgamation of a large region. Found in Alberta and Nova Scotia
    • Rural municipality - rural territories in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
    • Resort vilage - found in Saskatchewan
    • Indian settlement
    • Special area - rural territories in Alberta
    • Subdivision of county municipality - rural territories of Alberta
    • Settlement - small communities in the territories
    • Subdivision of unorganized - unorganized rural territories of Newfoundland and Labrador
    • Summer village - found in Alberta
    • Town
    • Inuit land - found in Quebec
    • Teslin land
    • Township - At the CSD level, only in Ontario
    • Reserve lands - found in Quebec
    • Unorganized area
    • Ville - cities and towns in Quebec
    • Cree village - found in Quebec
    • Naksapi village
    • Village
  • Urban area
  • Designated place

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