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Canada 2001 Census - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (525 words) |
 | The Canada 2001 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. |
 | From 1996 to 2001, the nation's population concentrated further in four broad urban regions: the extended Golden Horseshoe in southern Ontario; Montréal and environs; British Columbia's Lower Mainland and southern Vancouver Island; and the Calgary-Edmonton corridor. |
 | The census numbers are the basis of the federal governments transfer payments to the provinces and therefore when a province loses population, its transfer payments are decreased. |
| Preliminary Census Counts Estimate Anguilla’s Residential Population at 11,300 (518 words) |
 | While the processing of the census questionnaires is not yet completed to allow a firm count of Anguilla’s population, the pre-census day household visits have allowed a first estimate of the population to be released. |
 | The de jure population was estimated from the de facto population in 1992. |
 | The percentage of children in the population was 30% slightly larger than the preliminary estimate from the 2001 Census of 28%. |