Harmonized 2021 census geography for Quebec

Geographic database containing the result of Statistics Canada's __2021 Census geography harmonization process__.

Harmonization is a process of editing geographic boundaries in order to adjust them spatially to the official geographic base.

This work was carried out in 2022 by the Institut de la Statistique du Québec (ISQ) according to the official provincial geographic base. A metadata sheet shows the process of harmonizing this geography. __The content of the resulting database is detailed there (page 2), as well as the description of the attributes in the appendix (pages 7 to 11) __.

**This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**

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Date ( RI_367 )
2022-05-17
Date ( RI_366 )
2022-05-17
RI_418
  Government and Municipalities of Québec; Government and Municipalities of Québec; Institut de la statistique du Québec - Direction de la gestion des données et de l'accès pour la recherche (DGDAR) ( )
https://www.donneesquebec.ca
Status
proposed; proposé RI_600
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • Census agglomeration
  • Diffusion area
  • Census division
  • Census geography
  • Census metropolitan area
  • Economic region
  • Census subdivision
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Government information
Use limitation
Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution (CC-BY) licence – Quebec (https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/licence/)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Metadata language
fra; CAN
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
2021-01-01
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unknown / unknown / unknown
Distribution format
  • FGDB/GDB ( unknown )

  • HTML ( unknown )

  • PDF ( unknown )

  • SHP ( unknown )

RI_418
  Government and Municipalities of Québec; Government and Municipalities of Québec; Institut de la statistique du Québec - Direction de la gestion des données et de l'accès pour la recherche (DGDAR) ( )
https://www.donneesquebec.ca
OnLine resource
FGDB of the harmonized 2021 census geography for Quebec ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;fra

OnLine resource
Original metadata (https://www.donneesquebec.ca) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;HTML;fra

OnLine resource
Geography of the 2021 Census of Population harmonized with the geographic base of Quebec — Metadata sheet ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
Harmonized 2021 census geography shape files for Quebec ( HTTPS )

Dataset;SHP;fra

File identifier
1c54bc07-3fd7-489b-bcb5-3f318ec22255 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2025-11-11
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
HNAP ISO:19115 - 2003
RI_418
  Government and Municipalities of Québec; Government and Municipalities of Québec; Institut de la statistique du Québec - Direction de la gestion des données et de l'accès pour la recherche (DGDAR) ( )
https://www.donneesquebec.ca
 
 

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