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these are referred to as census overlay samples by asde. the samples are drawn on the basis of maximizing a demographic or economic characteristic by selecting those regions that are above a given threshold for that characteristic.As an example: “Zip codes within the state of Florida, where the percentage of households with children under 18 is above X%”. These samples can be very useful when applied carefully and only when it [..]
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this methodology draws numbers directly from the telephone directory listings. we use the best available electronic listings for these samples. rdd samplesASDE generates the sample numbers in two ways, the traditional RDD method and the ASDE enhanced RDD methodology.
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a method of identifying the households to be contacted for a telephone interview. either all the digits of the telephone number are randomly generated
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a group of individuals or cases from a particular population. sampling and statistical inference are used in circumstances in which it is impractical to obtain information from every member of the populationMore commonly used methods which are refinements of this basic idea, are stratified sampling (in which the population is divided into classes and simple random samples are drawn from each class), clus [..]
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census division is the general term applied to areas established by provincial law which are intermediate geographic areas between the municipality and the province level. census divisions represent countiesCensus Metropolitan Area (CMA) and Census Agglomeration (CA)
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a census metropolitan area is a very large urban area with adjacent urban and rural areas which have a high degree of social and economic integration with the urban core. a cma has an urban core population of at least 100Census Sub-Division (CSD) is the general term applying to municipalities (as determined by provincial legislation) or their equivalent (for example, Indian reserves, Indian settlements and unorganized [..]
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small area composed of one or more neighbouring blocksThe dissemination area (DA) is a small, relatively stable geographic unit composed of one or more blocks. It is the smallest standard geographic area for which all census data are disseminated. DAs co [..]
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an economic region is a grouping of complete census divisions. prince edward island and the two territories each consist of one economic region. economic regions are used to analyze regional economic activity. federal electoral districtA Federal Electoral District (FED) refers to any place or territorial area entitled to elect a representative member to serve in the House of Commons (source: Canada Elections Act, 1990). There are cu [..]
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the forward sortation area is the identifier for the first three characters of any canadian postal code. it is the basis for sorting mail. it identifies an area within a provinceThe Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) is Statistics Canada’s official classification of geographic areas in Canada. The SGC provides unique numeric identification (codes) for three types of g [..]
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