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Documentation: Canadian Census 2011
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Publisher: Statistics Canada
Survey: Canadian Census 2011
Document: Statistics Canada - Catalogue no. 99-000-X2011001 National Household Survey
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Canadian Census 2011
Statistics Canada - Catalogue no. 99-000-X2011001 National Household Survey
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Introduction to the universes
Chapter 3. Aboriginal Peoples
Chapter 4. Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity
Age at immigration
Citizenship
Ethnic origin
First official language spoken
Generation status
Home language
Home language - Part A
Home language - Part B
Immigrant status
Knowledge of non-official languages
Knowledge of official languages
Mother tongue
Period of immigration
Place of birth of father
Place of birth of mother
Place of birth of respondent
Population group
Religion
Visible minority
Year of immigration
Chapter 5. Education and Labour
5.1. Education
5.2. Labour
Chapter 6. Mobility and Migration
Census division of current residence
Census subdivision of current residence
Mobility 1: Census division of residence 1 year ago
Mobility 1: Census metropolitan area or census agglomeration of residence 1 year ago
Mobility 1: Census subdivision of residence 1 year ago
Mobility 1: Census subdivision type of residence 1 year ago
Mobility 1: Components of migration (in- and out-)
Mobility 1: Country of residence 1 year ago
Mobility 1: Mobility status - Place of residence 1 year ago
Mobility 1: Province or territory of residence 1 year ago
Mobility 1: Statistical Area Classification of residence 1 year ago
Mobility 5: Census division of residence 5 years ago
Mobility 5: Census metropolitan area or census agglomeration of residence 5 years ago
Mobility 5: Census subdivision of residence 5 years ago
Mobility 5: Census subdivision type of residence 5 years ago
Mobility 5: Components of migration (in- and out-)
Mobility 5: Country of residence 5 years ago
Mobility 5: Mobility status - Place of residence 5 years ago
Mobility 5: Province or territory of residence 5 years ago
Mobility 5: Statistical Area Classification of residence 5 years ago
Province or territory of current residence
Chapter 7. Income and Housing
7.1. Income
Adjusted after-tax income for economic families and persons not in economic families
Adjusted after-tax income of households
Adjusted income for economic families and persons not in economic families
Adjusted market income of households
Adjusted total income of households
After-tax income
After-tax income of census families
After-tax income of economic families
After-tax income of households
Average income of families or persons not in families
Average income of households
Average income of individuals
Benefits from Canada Pension Plan or Quebec Pension Plan
Benefits from Employment Insurance
Census family total income
Child benefits
Child care expenses paid
Child or spousal support payments
Composition of income
Disposable income for the MBM
Dividends, interest on bonds, deposits and savings certificates, and other
Earner or employment income recipient
Earnings or employment income
Economic family total income
Government transfer payments
Household total income
Income decile group
Income status
Income tax paid
Low-income gap
Low-income after-tax cut-offs (LICO-AT)
Low-income before-tax cut-offs (LICO-BT)
Low-income measure after tax (LIM-AT)
Low-income measure before tax (LIM-BT)
Low-income measure of market income (LIM-MI)
Major source of income
Market income
Market Basket Measure (MBM)
Net capital gains or losses
Net farm income
Net non-farm income from unincorporated business and/or professional practice
Non-discretionary spending for the MBM
Old Age Security pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement
Other income from government sources
Other money income
Prevalence of low income
Retirement pensions, superannuation and annuities, including those from RRSPs and RRIFs
Self-employment net income
Severity of low income
Total income
Total income plus net capital gains or losses
Wages and salaries
7.2. Housing
Chapter 8. Other
Activities of daily living
Age
Census family
Census family composition
Census family status
Census family structure
Census farm
Common-law status
Date of birth
Dwelling, private, occupied by usual residents
Economic family
Economic family status
Economic family structure
Farm operator
Household living arrangements
Household size
Household type
Household, private
Legal marital status
Marital status
Presence of children
Relationship to household reference person (Person 1)
Rural farm population
Sex
Structural type of dwelling
Usual place of residence
List of abbreviations
Appendix 1.1. 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) questionnaires
Appendix 1.2. Ethnic origins disseminated in the 2011 National Household Survey 2011
Appendix 1.3. Mother tongue and home language – 2011 National Household Survey
Appendix 1.4. Knowledge of non-official languages – 2011 National Household Survey
Appendix 1.5. Places of birth disseminated in the 2011 National Household Survey
Appendix 1.6. Classification of the countries of citizenship for the 2011 National Household
Appendix 1.7. Religions disseminated in the 2011 National Household Survey
Appendix 2.1. Comparability of the 2011 National Household Survey Labour force status data
Appendix 2.2. Major field of study - Classification based on the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2011
Appendix 2.3. Major field of study - Classification based on the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2000 codes
Appendix 2.4. Language of work: 2011 National Household Survey classification
Appendix 2.5 Empirical concordance: National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2011 - National Occupational Classification Statistics (NOC-S) 2006
Appendix 3.1. Derived Statistics
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