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1st Generation
Refers to persons born outside Canada.
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2nd Generation
Refers to persons born inside Canada with at least one parent born outside Canada.
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3rd Generation and Over
Refers to persons born inside Canada with both parents born inside Canada.
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8 or More Drinks Per Week
This is the percentage of individuals who indicated they drink 8 or more drinks per week calculated based on the sum of each day for the last week.
A Close Friend
A friend you feel at ease with, can talk to about private matters, and can call on for help.
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A Close Relative
A relative, other than your spouse or partner, you feel at ease with, can talk to about private matters, and can call on for help.
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Aboriginal Identity
Refers to those persons who reported identifying with at least one Aboriginal group, i.e. North American Indian, Métis or Inuit (Eskimo), and/or those who reported being a Treaty Indian or a Registered Indian as defined by the Indian Act of Canada and/or who were members of an Indian Band or First Nation. In 1991 and previous censuses, Aboriginal persons were determined using the ethnic origin question (ancestry). The 1996 Census included a question on the individual's own perception of his/her Aboriginal identity. The 2001 Census question is the same as the one used in 1996.
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Aboriginal Origin
Refers to those persons who reported at least one Aboriginal origin to the ethnic origin question (North American Indian, Métis or Inuit). Ethnic origin refers to the ethnic or cultural group(s) to which the respondent's ancestors belong.
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Above Bachelor's Degree
Refers to the possession of a university certificate or diploma above the bachelor level. Normally, this type of certificate or diploma is obtained following a first degree in the same field of study or by completing a master's or first professional degree. 
Age Group 1996
Refers to the age at last birthday (as of the census reference date, May 14, 1996). This variable is derived from date of birth. Grouping were defined through custom tabulation.
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Age Group 2001
Refers to the age at last birthday (as of the census reference date, May 14, 2001). This variable is derived from date of birth. Grouping were defined through custom tabulation.
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Age of Mother
Refers to age of mother as of the Census year of birth.
All Families
Includes husband-wife families as well as lone-parent families, it excludes non-family persons.
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All Persons
Includes the total population: taxfilers and imputed persons, whether adults or children, regardless of family type. See also "Taxfilers and Dependents".
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Assessed Value of Housing
To value a property for tax purposes whether by an inspection to determine its fair market value or by use of an adjustment multiplier.
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Assessment Agency
The corporation incorporated under the Corporations Act to conduct assessments under this Act.
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Average Couple Family Income
The total income of all the couple families divided by the number of such families. This excludes lone-parent families and non-family persons.
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Average Gross Rent Per Month
Includes rent, electricity, oil, gas, coal, or wood fuels, as well as water and other municipal services. Includes dwellings for which the monthly rent is zero.
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Average Owners' Monthly Payments
This not only includes mortgages but property taxes, condominium fees, electricity, oil, gas, coal, or wood fuels, as well as water and other municipal services. Also includes those dwellings for which the total regular monthly mortgage or loan payments is zero.
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Average Value of Dwellings
This is based on what respondents estimated their homes to be worth.
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Bachelor's Degree Not Completed
Includes those individuals with a university certificate and/or diploma below a bachelor's degree as their highest level of schooling.
Bachelor's Degree or Higher (pop 25-54)
The number of individuals 25 to 54 who have completed University as a percent of the total population 25 to 54.
Began Smoking Daily
The age categories under this heading indicate the age at which respondents began smoking cigarettes daily. The "daily" part is critical since it indicates only those who have smoked daily, either currently or in the past, are included in this question.
British, n.i.e.
"n.i.e." means "not included elsewhere".
Includes responses such as British, Anglo, Celtic, Cornish, Gaelic, Jersey Islander, Manx, United Empire Loyalist, United Kingdom, etc.
Excludes the following groups which were collected as separate responses in 2001: English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh.
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Canada Pension Plan
are compulsory contributory social insurance plans that protect workers and their families against loss of income due to retirement, disability or death. Canada Pension Plan and Quebec Pension Plan benefits include all benefits reported for the reference year.
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Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS)

The Canadian Community Health Survey is a cross-sectional survey that collects information related to health status, health care utilization and health determinants for the Canadian population. It is designed to answer two crucial questions:

1. How healthy are Canadians?

2. How healthy is the Canadian health care system?

The CCHS targets persons age 12 years and older living in private dwellings. Excluded from the sample are individuals living on Indian Reserves or Crown Lands, institutional residents, full time members of the Canadian Armed Forces and residents in certain remote areas.


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Canadian Index (Canada = 100)
The median income for the area is expressed as a percentage of the median income for Canada.
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Census Families
This definition of the family classifies people in the following manner: 1) husbands and wives (married or common law) living in the same dwelling, with or without children (children of any age who report "single" as their marital status, or imputed children); 2) lone parents (male or female) with one or more children. Thus, the residual population is called "non-family persons" and is made up of persons living alone and of persons living in a household but who are not immediate relatives of other household members.
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Census Year
A census year is from July 1st to June 30th. For example, Census year 2000-01 is from July 1st of 2000 to June 30th of 2001.
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Change in Employment
The percent change in the number of people reporting employment income between 1998 and 2003 divided by the number reporting employment income in 1998.
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Child Tax Benefit
is a system that replaces (beginning with the 1993 data year) the previous Family Allowance program, the non-refundable child deduction and the refundable Child Tax Credit. It is an income supplement for individuals who have at least one qualified dependent child. The Child Tax Benefit is also based on the individual's family income and the number of dependent children.
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Children
In husband-wife and lone-parent families, children are taxfilers or imputed persons; taxfiling children report "single" as their marital status and have no child of their own.
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Chinese, n.o.s.
The 1996 category 'Chinese, n.o.s.' contains all responses of 'Chinese', including 'Mandarin', 'Cantonese' and 'Hakka'. Therefore it is not equivalent to the 2001 category 'Chinese, n.o.s.' but rather, equal to the sum of the 2001 categories of 'Chinese, n.o.s.', 'Mandarin', 'Cantonese' and 'Hakka'.
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Chronic Conditions
Each of the conditions shown under this category was asked separately to respondents. Thus, the percentages shown represent the percentage of people in the survey who indicated they have the particular condition.
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Confidence Interval

The confidence interval is the probable range of the true value. It measures the precision with which an estimate approximates the population value.
“Probable” refers to the set confidence level. Common confidence levels are 90%, 95%, and 99%.

For example: If the sample estimate is equal to 80%, the Confidence Interval is equal to 3% and the Confidence Level is 95%, then we can be 95% confident that the true value falls between 77% - 83%.
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Confidence Interval and Sample Size
A confidence interval is closely related to sample size. A confidence interval will get narrower as the sample size increases. The narrower the confidence interval the more precise the estimate.
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Confidence Level
Confidence level is the estimated probability that a population estimate lies within a given confidence interval. A confidence level of 95% tells you that you can be 95% confident that the population value lies within a given confidence interval. 

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Correct Weight
Information based on self-reported height and weight. Categories based on the Canadian Standard for the Body Mass Index (BMI). BMI is calculated as follows: weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. The correct weight category combines two categories from the Body Mass Index: the acceptable weight category and the some excess weight category.
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Couple Family
Consists of a couple living together (whether married or common law) at the same address, and any children living at the same address; taxfiling children must report a marital status other than married. Previous to the 1998 data, taxfiling children had to report “single” as their marital status. Beginning in 2000, same-sex couples reporting as couples are counted as couple families. See also Census families.
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Couple family Previously Husband-wife family
Consists of a couple living together (whether married or common law) at the same address, and any children living at the same address; taxfiling children must report a marital status other than “married”. Previous to the 1998 data, taxfiling children had to report “single” as their marital status. Starting with the 2000 data, this category includes same-sex couples. See also "Census families".
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Days Waiting for Health Care (average)
The time between when an individual makes an appointment and the date he or she sees the doctor/nurse.
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Deaths by Age
Refers to the age of the individual as of the Census year of death.
Disability
A disability is any condition that stops the individual from doing his or her routine activities.
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Dividend Income
includes dividend income from taxable Canadian corporations (such as stocks or mutual funds) as reported on line 120 of the personal income tax return, and then grossed down to the actual amounts received; dividend income does not include dividends received from foreign investments (which are included in interest income and reported on line 121).
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Economic Self-Reliance Ratio

The ratio of market income (of all kinds) to total personal income. For example, for a community that has a self-reliance ratio of 70.0%, this means that of all the income flowing into that community, 70 cents on the dollar came from market sources; the other 30 cents was transfers from government.


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Employment Income
is the total reported employment income. Employment income includes wages and salaries, commissions from employment, training allowances, tips and gratuities, and self-employment income (net income from business, profession, farming, fishing and commissions).
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Employment Insurance (Income Transfer Source, previously Unemployment Insurance)
This comprises all types of benefits paid to individuals under this program, regardless of reason, including regular benefits for unemployment, fishing, job creation, maternity, parental/adoption, retirement, self-employment, sickness, training and work sharing.
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Employment Insurance (previously Unemployment Insurance)
comprises all types of benefits paid to individuals under this program, regardless of reason, including regular benefits for unemployment, fishing, job creation, maternity, parental/adoption, retirement, self-employment, sickness, training and work sharing.
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Employment Insurance Incidence
is the number of people receiving Employment Insurance during the year divided by the number of people in the labour force.

We define the labour force here as the number of people who received employment income or employment insurance within the year (this differs slightly from the definition given in Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey).
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Employment rate-1995
Refers to the ratio of total individuals reporting at least one week of work in 1995 to the total population.
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Employment Rate-2000
Refers to the ratio of total individuals reporting at least one week of work in 2000 to the total population.
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Employment Rates by Selected Age Groups

Refers to the number of people reporting employment income within a certain age group divided by the total population within that same age group.

Employment income includes wages and salaries, commissions from employment, training allowances, tips and gratuities, self-employment income (net income from business, profession, farming, fishing and commissions) and Indian employment income (new in 1999).
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Ethnic Origin
Refers to the ethnic or cultural group(s) to which the respondent's ancestors belong. It also represents the sum of persons who reported single ethnic origins and multiple ethnic origins in the census.
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Exercise: Active or Very Active
Multiples of the resting metabolic rate (METS) were used to classify individuals into five categories: 'sedentary', 'light activity', 'moderately active', 'active', or 'very active', based on a series of questions on various types of exercise. The 'active' and 'very active' categories are combined here.
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Exercise: Sedentary or Light Activity
Multiples of the resting metabolic rate (METS) were used to classify individuals into five categories: 'sedentary', 'light activity', 'moderately active', 'active', or 'very active', based on a series of questions on various types of exercise. The 'sedentary' and 'light activity' categories are combined here.
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Families Reporting Income
Is counted for a given source of income when that income is received by at least one family member. Families and individuals may report more than one source of income.
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Family Allowance
See Child Tax Benefit.
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Family Total Income
is the sum of the total incomes of all members of the family (see "Total Income"). New to the 1992 definition of total income is income for non-filing spouses. The information is derived from the taxfiling spouse. Caution must be used in comparing to data for previous years.
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Fishing and Farming Self-Employment Income
is net income from fishing and farming,
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Full-Time
Full-time (30 hours or more per week)
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Generation Status
Generation status of the respondent, i.e. “1st”, “2nd” or “3rd +” generation, refers to whether the respondent or the respondent’s parents were born in or outside Canada.
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Gini Coefficient
The Gini coefficient ranges from a maximum of 1.0 (perfect inequality) to zero (perfect equalilty). When the Gini coefficient is zero, all the units have the same income. When the Gini coefficient is 1.0, one unit has all the income, and all the other units have zero income. Consequently, the higher the Gini coefficient the greater the inequality in the distribution of income.
Government Transfer Payments
For the purpose of these data, transfer payments denote the following payments made to individuals by the federal or provincial governments:

  • Employment Insurance
  • Family Allowance (to 1992)
  • FST credit (in 1989 and 1990)
  • GST credit (which began replacing the FST credit in 1990 and completely replaced it by 1991)
  • HST credit (beginning in 1997)
  • Child Tax Credit (to 1992)
  • Child Tax Benefit (starting with 1993)
  • Old Age Security pension/net federal supplements
  • Canada and Quebec Pension plans
  • non-taxable income and provincial refundable tax credits (both beginning in 1990)
  • Quebec family allowance (beginning in 1994)
  • British Columbia family bonus (beginning in 1996) and New Brunswick and Alberta family allowances (beginning in 1997).


The individuals in this case receive these payments without providing goods or services in return. Previous to the 1996 data, "Transfer payments" also included superannuation and other (private) pensions.
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GST credit
includes all amounts received through this program. In 1990, the Goods and Services Tax Credit began replacing the Federal Sales Tax (FST) Credit. By 1991, the FST Credit no longer existed.

In Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, provincial sales tax have been harmonized with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) since 1997. For this reason, the federal GST credit is now known as the GST/HST credit.
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Head of Family
Please note that for this table numbers within each category (Age, Education Level, and Reason for Assistance) will add to the Total Families (including unattached individuals).
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High School or Above (pop 20+)
The number of individuals 20 or more who have completed at least high school as a percent of the total population 20+.
Highest Level of Schooling
Refers to the highest grade or year of elementary or secondary (high) school attended, or to the highest year of university or college education completed. University education is considered to be a higher level of schooling than college education. Also, the attainment of a degree, certificate or diploma is considered to be at a higher level than years completed or attended without an educational qualification.
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Home Language
Refers to the language spoken most often or on a regular basis at home by the individual at the time of the census.
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Hours Worked Per Week
Refers to the hours worked during the week (Sunday to Saturday) prior to Census Day.
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Husband-Wife Families
consist of a man and woman living together (whether married or common law) at the same address, and any children living at the same address; taxfiling children must report "single" as their marital status. See also "Census families".
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Imputed Persons
are persons who are not taxfilers, but are reported or otherwise identified by a taxfiler (for example, a non-filing spouse or child).
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Income Aggregates
are rounded to the nearest thousand dollars. See also "Total income" and the various sources of income.
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Income Support Assistance Incidence
is the number of people receiving Social Assistance during the year (including dependents) divided by the total population.
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Index
is a comparison of the variable for the given area with either the province (province = 100) or with Canada (Canada = 100).
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Industries
Industry - 1980 Canadian Standard Industrial Classification. Refers to the industry classification of the work persons were doing during 1995, as determined by their kind of work and the description of the most important duties in their job. The 1980 SIC differs slightly from the more common NAICS.
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Inside/Outside Community of Residence
May vary depending on what the respondent considers to be his or her community of residence. For example, New-Wes-Valley is a municipality in Economic Zone 14 that includes the communities of Valleyfield, Badger's Quay, Pool's Island, Brookfield, Wesleyville, Pound Cove, Templeman, and Newtown. Whether the respondent considers the municipality or a community within the municipality to be his or her community of residence will affect the results of this question.
Interest Income
refers to the amount Canadians claimed on line 121 of the personal income tax return. This amount includes interest generated from bank deposits, Canada Savings Bonds, corporate bonds, treasury bills, investment certificates, term deposits, annuities, mutual funds, earnings on life insurance policies and all foreign interest and foreign dividend incomes.
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Investment Income
includes both interest income and dividend income.
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Knowledge of Official Languages
Refers to the ability to conduct a conversation in English only, in French only, in both English and French, or in neither of the official languages of Canada.
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Leisure Activity Time
Based on how the individual spent his or her leisure time during the last two weeks.
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Levels by Age
Refers to the number of migrating individuals. We calculate the figures for each age group using the age of the individual at the beginning of the time period. For example, the figures for the 15-19 age group in the 1991 to 1996 period refers to the number of individuals in that group who migrated before they reached the ages of 20-24 in 1996.
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Life Expectancy (estimated)
The average number of years a person is expected to live at birth, based on death rates in 1996.
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Lone Parent Family
is a family with only one parent, male or female, and with at least one child. See also "Census families".
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Low Income Cut-Off
Low Income Cut-offs
"Low Income cut-offs are used to delineate family units into "low income" and "other" groups.
A family unit with income below the cut-off for its family size and urbanization classification
is considered a "low income" family.

1998 LICOs (1992 base)
Population of Community of Residence
Family Size"500,000 +""100,000-499,999""30,000-99,999""Less than 30,000"Rural
11757115070149651392412142
22196218837187061740515178
32731523429232642164718877
43306328359281622620522849
53695831701314812929325542
64085535043347983237928235
7 +4475138385381173546730928


1997 LICOs (1992 base)
Population of Community of Residence
Family Size"500,000 +""100,000-499,999""30,000-99,999""Less than 30,000"Rural
11740914931148271379612030
22176018664185341724515038
32706323213230502144818703
43275928098279032596422639
53661831409311912902325307
64047934720344783208127975
7 +4433938032377663514030643


1996 LICOs (1992 base)
Population of Community of Residence
Family Size"500,000 +""100,000-499,999""30,000-99,999""Less than 30,000"Rural
11713214694145911357711839
22141418367182391697114799
32663322844226842110718406
43223827651274592555122279
53603630910306952856224905
63983534168339303157127530
7 +4363437427371663458130156


1995 LICOs (1992 base)
Population of Community of Residence
Family Size"500,000 +""100,000-499,999""30,000-99,999""Less than 30,000"Rural
11687414473143721337311661
22109218091179651671614576
32623222500223432079018129
43175327235270462516721944
53549430445302332813224530
63923633654334203109627116
7 +4297836864366073406129702


1994 LICOs (1992 base)
Population of Community of Residence
Family Size"500,000 +""100,000-499,999""30,000-99,999""Less than 30,000"Rural
11651114162140631308611410
22063917702175791635714263
32566822016218632034317739
43107126650264652462621472
53473129791295832752724003
63839332931327023042826533
7 +4205436072358203332929064


1993 LICOs (1992 base)
Population of Community of Residence
Family Size"500,000 +""100,000-499,999""30,000-99,999""Less than 30,000"Rural
11648214137140391306311390
22060317671175491632914238
32562321978218252030817708
43101726604264192458321435
53467129739295322747923961
63832632874326453037526487
7 +4198136009357583327129014
"Low income cut-offs are based on data from the Family Expenditure Survey (FAMEX). From FAMEX data the Canada average family expenditure on food shelter and clothing is calculated. This is expressed as a percentage of pre-tax income. Base year low income cut-offs are set where families spend 20 percentage points more of their income than the Canadian average on food shelter and clothing. The FAMEX data are then analyzed to determine the income levels where families spend this percentage on the basics (i.e. the overall Canada percentage plus 20 percentage points). These income levels differentiated by size of area of residence and by family size, become the base year low income cut-offs." Source: Statistics Canada - Catalogue 13-551
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Major Field of Study
Main subject area of the person's highest degree, certificate or diploma after high school. This refers to the subject in which the person obtained the most advanced degree, certificate or diploma that he or she holds at the postsecondary level.
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Median
is the middle number in a group of numbers. Where a median income, for example, is given as $26,000, it means that exactly half of the incomes reported are greater than or equal to $26,000, and that the other half are less than or equal to the median amount. Median incomes in the data tables are rounded to the nearest hundred dollars. With the exception of "Total Income", zero values are not included in the calculation of medians for individuals, but are included in the calculation of medians for families.
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Median Age
Median age is defined as the point where half of the individuals are greater than a particular age and half are lower.
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Mental Health Scale
Based on the Bradburn scale. Calculated by asking a series of 10 questions each rated on a 'often', 'sometimes', or 'never' scale. Numeric scores are averaged and grouped into four levels: excellent, good, fair, and poor.
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Migration Rate
The Migration Rate from 1991 to 1996 is the total net migration (in minus out) during this period divided by the population in 1991. This gives the rate at which people are either entering (positive migration) or leaving (negative migration) an area of interest.
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Mill Rates
Used to calculate the amount of property taxes paid by households in a municipality. It is the amount of money in dollars a household would pay per each $1,000 of the value of the home.
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Mother Tongue
Refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census.
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Multiple responses
Represents the total number of persons who reported more than one ethnic origin in the census. This total is less than the sum of multiple responses of each group because respondents reporting more than one ethnic origin are counted in the multiple responses categories for each of the groups they reported. For example: a respondent reporting Scottish and English origins is counted once under the Total population - Multiple responses category. However, the same respondent is counted once in the Scottish - Multiple responses category and counted once in the English - Multiple responses category.
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NCARP/TAGS
Northern Cod Adjustment Recovery Program
The Atlantic Groundfish Strategy
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Negative Income
generally applies to net self-employment income, net rental income and net limited partnership income. Negative income would indicate that expenses exceeded gross income.
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Net Federal Supplements
are part of the Old Age Security (OAS) pension program, intended to supplement the income of pensioners and spouses with lower income; payments take the form of a Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) or a Spouse's Allowance (SPA).
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Never Smoker
This is the percentage of respondents who have never smoked, neither daily or occasionally.
Non-Family Person
is an individual who is not living with a spouse, single children or parent, with exception: the exception to the parent category is related to the marital status of the taxfiling child; only children who report marital status of "single" will be treated as children of a family; others will be non-family persons. See also "Census families".
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Non-Negative Income
is income that is zero or greater.
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Non-Taxable Income/Provincial (Refundable) Tax Credits
serve to reduce the tax burden; unlike non-refundable tax credits, all amounts are paid to the taxfiler. Among these refundable tax credits are the Federal Sales Tax (FST) credit (for 1989 and 1990), the Goods and Services Tax (GST) credit (beginning in 1990), the Harmonized Sates Tax (HST) credit (beginning in 1997) and provincial refundable tax credits (beginning in 1990). Included are the refundable provincial tax credits received by taxfilers in Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec (since 1990), British Columbia and the Northwest Territories (since 1993), Quebec family allowances (beginning with 1994), British Columbia family bonus (beginning with 1996) and New Brunswick and Alberta family allowances (beginning in 1997).
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Not Seeking Care When Necessary
Based on whether respondents felt they needed medical care or advice and did not seek it.
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Number Reporting
indicates the number of persons or items represented in a variable (e.g., the number of taxfilers reporting income in the year in question).
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Occupations
Occupation (Based on 1991 Standard Occupational Classification) refers to the kind of work persons were doing during 1995, as determined by their kind of work and the description of the most important duties in their job. Persons with two or more jobs were to report the information for the job at which they worked the most hours.
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Old Age Security
is part of the Old Age Security program, a federal government program that guarantees a degree of financial security to Canadian seniors. All persons in Canada aged 65 or older, who are Canadian citizens or legal residents, may qualify for a full OAS pension, depending on their years of residence in Canada after reaching age 18. Old Age Security benefits include all benefits reported for the reference year (excluding Guaranteed Income Supplements and Spousal Allowance benefits; see also "Net Federal Supplements" and "Non-taxable Income").
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Other Aboriginal Multiple Origins
Includes those who reported multiple Aboriginal origins or multiple Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal origins to the ethnic origin question.
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Other Income
includes net rental income, alimony, income from a limited partnership, retiring allowances, scholarships, amounts received through a supplementary unemployment benefit plan (guaranteed annual income plan), payments from income-averaging annuity contracts, as well as all other taxable income not included elsewhere. Beginning with the 1992 data, this variable also includes the imputed income of imputed spouses, as derived from the tax return of the filing spouse. See also "Total Income".
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Other languages
This is a subtotal of all non-official languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here.
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Other Self-Employment Income
is net income from business, profession and commission (i.e. other than fishing and farming).
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Overweight
Information based on self-reported height and weight. Categories are based on the Canadian Standard for the Body Mass Index (BMI). BMI is calculated as follows: weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared.
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Parent
is a person for whom we have identified single children living at the same address. See also "Census families".
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Part-time
Part-time (less than 30 hours per week)
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Per Capita
amounts are the aggregate amounts for a given area, divided by the total population for that same area.
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Permenant Disability
A disability that will not disappear in a few weeks.
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Personal Income per Capita
is obtained by dividing the total income (both market and transfers) by the population.
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Persons
in husband-wife families include both spouses and children; in lone-parent families include the parent and children; for non-family persons include the number of such individuals.
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Poll Tax
An annual tax on either:

(a) a person who is 18 years of age or older, is ordinarily a resident in the municipality, and is employed in the municipality for not fewer than 90 days in total during the financial year . A person who does not ordinarily reside in a municipality for the full current financial year is entitled to a rebate of the poll tax proportional to the duration of time that person is not a resident.

(b) an individual, partnership, association or corporation who is not ordinarily resident in the municipality but owns real property in the municipality.
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Population change

This is the difference in population between two years divided by the population in the earlier year.
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Private Pensions
include pension benefits (superannuation and private pensions) other than Old Age Security and Canada/Quebec Pension Plan benefits.
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Provincial Index (Province = 100)
The median income for the area is expressed as a percentage of the median income for the province.
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Provincial Refundable Tax Credits
Non-taxable income refers to the amounts included in a taxfiler's income when applying for refundable tax credits, but not included in the calculation of taxable income; these amounts include Workers' Compensation payments, Net Federal Supplements received (Guaranteed Income Supplements and/or Spouse's Allowance), and social assistance payments. Beginning with the 1994 data, information is available separately for Net Federal Supplements, Workers' Compensation and social assistance. Provincial tax credits are a refundable credit paid to individuals by the province in which he/she resided as of December 31 of the taxation year. See also "Provincial refundable tax credits".
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Proxy Interview
In cases where the selected respondent was, for reasons of physical or mental health, incapable of completing an interview, another knowledgeable member of the household provided information about the selected respondent.
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