| Coverage Area | Canada – Dissemination Areas for all 13 provinces and territories |
| Reference Date | Reference year is aligned to vintage of Precisely's Estimates and Projections used in development. Refer to accompanying release notes and data schema for reference date information. |
| Update Frequency | Annual |
| Map Projection | Latitude/Longitude (NAD83 coordinate reference system) |
| File Formats | Pipe-delimited text – mappable boundary data contained in a separate text file, with geometry in WKT format for Dissemination Area (DA) boundaries MapInfo Extended TAB (NativeX) – mappable; data joined to DA boundaries |
| Geography Levels | Data is provided at the Dissemination Area level of geography. Refer to the statistics file (consumer_vitality_can_statistics.xlsx) for additional information. |
| Data Sources | Precisely TomTom (Precisely DA boundaries based on TomTom data) Statistics Canada |