Encyclopedia > Census division statistics of Canada
Canada's equivalent to Counties are known uniformly as Census Divisions which are called by different names in different provinces, or in different parts of provinces. The below table shows the largest and smallest Census division in Canada and the provinces and territories by area and by population respectively.
In the United States, the Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau), an agency of the Department of Commerce, conducts the national population census and most economic censuses.
For most of the 19th century in the United States and Canada, census data were tabulated and compiled by hand, without the aid of machines.
The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published annually by the Census Bureau, is an important statistical compendium on the social, political, and economic aspects of life in the United States.
The periodic collection of this type of census may be considered as a stock taking activity which allows for correction in the population numbers that would be obtained directly from the registers and which are necessary due to the occurrence of un-registered events as, for instance, those related to migration.
A “rolling census” represents an alternative to the classic model of the census by means of a continuous cumulative survey, covering the whole country over a long period of time (generally years), rather than a particular day or short period of enumeration.
The two main parameters of a rolling census are the length of the period of enumeration (which is linked to the frequency of updates required) and the sampling rate (which depends on the available budget and the geographic levels required for dissemination purposes).
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