census_divisions_2016 {mapcan}

Census divisions (2016)

Description

A data set with geographic information for Canadian census divisions

Usage

census_divisions_2016

Format

A data.frame with 91430 rows and 13 variables:

long

Longitude

lat

Latitude

order

Order of layers

hole

Polygon hole (TRUE or FALSE)

piece

Piece

id

Uniquely identifies a census division (composed of the 2-digit province/territory unique identifier followed by the 2-digit census division code).

group

Group

census_division_name

Census division name

census_divison_type

Census division type

pr_alpha

Province or territory 2-letter identifier

pr_sgc_code

Province Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) code.

pr_english

Province name (English)

pr_french

Province name (French)

Source

https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/geo/bound-limit/bound-limit-2016-eng.cfm (under Statistics Canada Open Licence https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/reference/licence)