Regional and Community Vitality Index

The RVI/CVI database is derived from the CanEcumene 3.0 GDB (Eddy, et. al. 2023) using a selection of socio-economic variables identified in Eddy and Dort (2011) that aim to capture the overall state of socio-economic conditions of communities as ‘human habitats’. This dataset was developed primarily for application in mapping socio-economic conditions of communities and regions for environmental and natural resource management, climate change adaptation, Impact Assessments (IAs) and Regional Assessments (RAs), and Cumulative Effects Assessment (CEA).

The RVI/CVI is comprised of five sub-indicators: 1) population change, 2) age structure, 3) education levels, 4) employment levels, and 5) real estate values. Index values are based on percentile ranks of each sub-indicator, and averaged for each community, and for three ranked groups: 1) all of Canada, 2) by province, and 3) by population size. The data covers the Census periods of 2001, 2006, 2011 (NHS), 2016, and 2021.

The index is mapped in two ways: 1) as ‘points’ for individual communities (CVI), and 2) as ‘rasters’ for spatial interpolation of point data (RVI). These formats provide an alternative spatial framework to conventional StatsCan CSD framework. (For more information on this approach see Eddy, et. al. 2020).

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Eddy, B.G., Muggridge, M., LeBlanc, R., Osmond, J., Kean, C., and Boyd, E. 2023. The CanEcumene 3.0 GIS Database. Federal Geospatial Platform (FGP), Natural Resources Canada. https://gcgeo.gc.ca/viz/index-en.html?keys=draft-3f599fcb-8d77-4dbb-8b1e-d3f27f932a4b

Eddy B.G., Muggridge M, LeBlanc R, Osmond J, Kean C, Boyd E. 2020. An Ecological Approach for Mapping Socio-Economic Data in Support of Ecosystems Analysis: Examples in Mapping Canada’s Forest Ecumene. One Ecosystem 5: e55881. https://doi.org/10.3897/oneeco.5.e55881

Eddy, B.G.; Dort, A. 2011. Integrating Socio-Economic Data for Integrated Land Management (ILM): Examples from the Humber River Basin, western Newfoundland. Geomatica, Vol. 65, No. 3, p. 283-291. doi:10.5623/cig2011-044.

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Date ( RI_367 )
2020
Date ( RI_366 )
2016
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;Atlantic Forestry Centre, Corner Brook, NL - Eddy Brian ( Research Scientist )
26 University Dr. , Corner Brook , Newfoundland and Labrador , A2H 5J3 ,
709-660-3607
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords ( RI_525 )
  • community vitality, community resilience, adaptive capacity, ecumene, populated places, indigenous communities, census, socio-economic, demographic, ecosystems
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Census data
  • Ecosystems
  • Socioeconomic data
  • Demographic maps
  • Population
  • Population distribution
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Demographic data
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng
Metadata language
fra
Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
2001
End date
2023
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3978 /
Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3347 /
Distribution format
  • SHP ( unknown )

  • ESRI REST ( 10.3.1 )

  • FGDB/GDB ( 10 )

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Strategic Policy and Results Sector - ( )
OnLine resource
Regional and Community Vitality Index - MXD EN ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;MXD;eng

OnLine resource
Regional and Community Vitality Index - Raster Files ( HTTPS )

Dataset;TIFF;zxx

OnLine resource
Regional and Community Vitality Index - Shapefiles ( HTTPS )

Dataset;SHP;eng

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Regional and Community Vitality Index - GDB ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng

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Regional and Community Vitality Index - Excel Files ( HTTPS )

Dataset;XLS;eng

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Regional and Community Vitality Index - WMS EN ( HTTPS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
Regional and Community Vitality Index ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

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Regional and Community Vitality Index - WMS FR ( HTTPS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

OnLine resource
Regional and Community Vitality Index - Time Series ( HTTPS )

Application;HTML;fra

OnLine resource
Regional and Community Vitality Index - Time Series ( HTTPS )

Application;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
Regional and Community Vitality Index - Technical Reference V2 (English) ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
02. Document de référence technique Vers. 3.0 - FR ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
Regional and Community Vitality Index ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

File identifier
461123f1-1370-4709-aeda-639783ee8455 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Parent identifier
The Canadian Ecumene (CanEcumene) 3.0 GIS Database 3f599fcb-8d77-4dbb-8b1e-d3f27f932a4b
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2025-02-13T10:11:03
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_415
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;Atlantic Forestry Centre, Corner Brook Research Division - Dr. Brian Eddy ( Research Scientist )
26 University Dr. , Corner Brook , Newfoundland and Labrador , A2H 6B3 ,
709-660-3607
 
 

Overviews

overview
eng; CAN#RVI/CVI

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