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Canadian Census 2021 Release Notes

Product type
Data
Portfolio
Enrich
Product family
Enrich Demographics > Segmentations and Geodemographics
Product
Canadian Census PowerPacks
Version
Latest
ft:locale
en-US
Product name
Canadian Census 2021
ft:title
Canadian Census 2021 Release Notes
Copyright
2024
First publish date
2000
ft:lastEdition
2024-12-09
ft:lastPublication
2024-12-09T11:38:55.062000

Product content was updated in two stages. The 2023 version of this product includes the remaining installment of 2021 Census data. This second state of the Census 2021 update contains a variety of Census themes which are based on data published by Statistics Canada at the Dissemination Area level and higher geographies, between July and December 2022:

  • Families, households, and marital status
  • Income
  • Housing
  • Language
  • Immigration, place of birth, and citizenship
  • Mobility and migration
  • Indigenous people
  • Ethnocultural origins and religious* diversity
  • Labour
  • Language of work
  • Commuting
  • Education
  • Instruction in the official minority language**

*Content about religion returned to this Census (from 2011), as it is a census question that is asked every ten years.

**Refers to new questions introduced in the 2021 Census.

This product now offers a full suite of datasets assembled from across the seven-part phased release of Statistics Canada's 2021 Census program.

Note: Precisely's Canadian Census 2021 boundaries are now available as a separate product. The full suite of census boundaries includes Dissemination Areas, Aggregate Dissemination Areas, Census Tracts, Census Subdivisions, Census Divisions, Census Metropolitan Areas/Census Agglomerations, and Provinces/Territories.