World Points of Interest - Premium from Precisely contains a national dataset of Canadian business locations, leisure hotspots, and geographic features. Business establishments were extracted from this data source, along with a variety of attributes and business-specific information, such as company name, six-digit SIC (Standard Industry Classification) Code, and description, sales and employment data, as well as location context information – all for over 3 million Canadian businesses.
Data from World Points of Interest - Premium was geocoded using the geocoding solution from Precisely. Preference was given to address geocoding. Where address geocoding was unsuccessful, positioning fell back to postal or geographic centroids. Census 2021 Dissemination Area (DA) codes were assigned to each business point using a point-in-polygon operation with Census 2021 DA boundaries.
The Business Summary database was created by aggregating Canadian business records from World Points of Interest - Premium to their two-digit (US) SIC code, for all levels of geography. To build the Retail Summary dataset, retail-specific businesses in Canada were tabulated by three-digit NAICS code, for all levels of geography.
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