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Additional information. Data used to develop this dashboard are sourced from the 2021 Census of Population, presented in Table 98-10-0002-01 and Table 98-10-0011-01.Counts on population and private dwellings, change in population, land area in square kilometres, and population density per square kilometre are summarized based on definition type.
- Population growth in Canada’s rural areas, 2016 to 2021
Canada’s rural Note 1 population increased by 26,609 people...
- Population Centre and Rural Area Classification 2016
Taken together, population centres and rural areas cover all...
- Population growth in Canada’s rural areas, 2016 to 2021
Feb 9, 2022 · Canada’s rural Note 1 population increased by 26,609 people (+0.4%) from 2016 to reach 6.6 million in 2021. However, the rural population growth rate was fifteen times slower compared with urban areas in Canada (+6.3%). Rural areas have less than 1,000 people and a population density of fewer than 400 persons per square kilometre.
Any municipality outside of a census metropolitan area is rural. This classification considers all large cities as the same, given their shared urban characteristics. It also considers smaller cities, small towns, and rural areas as the same. ROI acknowledges that there are limitations to this approach and that differences exist within these ...
- Introduction
- Status
- Population Centre and Rural Area Classification 2016
- Background
- Conceptual Framework and Definitions
- Classification Structure and Codes
- Classification Variant
The Population Centre and Rural Area Classification 2016 is the current departmental standardand was approved on January 16, 2017.
The Population Centre and Rural Area Classification 2016 provides standard names and codes for Canada's population centres (POPCTRs) and rural area (RA). A classification variant provides the standard names and codes for POPCTRs and RA by province and territory.
The Population Centre and Rural Area Classification has been developed to classify population centres and rural area. The term 'urban' is widely used and one that people intuitively understand – a concentration of population at a high density. It is the opposite of 'rural', where population is not concentrated but dispersed at a low density. This i...
The Population Centre and Rural Area Classification conforms to the basic principles of statistical classification. It consists of a set of discrete units that are mutually exclusive and, in total, cover the entire universe. Usually, a classification appears as a hierarchy, each level of which satisfies the above-mentioned principles and is defined...
The Population Centre and Rural Area Classification has two levels. The relationship is illustrated in Figure 1.
In Statistics Canada, variants are created and adopted in cases where the version of the base classification does not fully meet specific user needs for disseminating data or for sampling in surveys. A classification variant is based on a classification version such as the Population Centre and Rural Area Classification 2016. In a variant, the cate...
the only one to show a slight decline in the rural population since 2016 (Table 3). All other. approaches show that rural population is growing, however, urban areas grew more than rural. areas. The Index of Remoteness shows a large rural population increase of 25%, which may be a result of methodological changes for the 2021 update.
(i.e. a CSD) is surrounded by a rural municipality (i.e. another CSD) and the two CSDs are grouped to form a CCS. In the 1996 Census of Population, there were 2,607 CCSs. Census division: A census division refers to areas established by provincial law, which are intermediate geographic areas between the municipality (i.e. a CSD) and the province.
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One of the longstanding debates concerns whether “rural” is a geographical concept, a location with identifiable boundaries on a map, or whether it is a social representation, a community of interest, a culture and way of life. 3. This paper focuses on geographical classifications of “rural.”.
