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Group of neighbouring municipalities joined together for the purposes of regional planning and managing common services (such as police or ambulance services). These groupings are established under laws in effect in certain provinces of Canada. Census division (CD) is the general term for provincially legislated areas (such as county, municipalité régionale de comté and regional district) or their equivalents. In other provinces and the territories where laws do not provide for such areas, Statistics Canada defines equivalent areas for statistical reporting purposes in cooperation with these provinces and territories. Census divisions are intermediate geographic areas between the province/territory level and the municipality (census subdivision). Census divisions (CD) have been established in provincial law to facilitate regional planning, as well as the provision of services that can be more effectively delivered on a scale larger than a municipality. In Newfoundland and Labrador, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, provincial or territorial law does not provide for these administrative geographic areas. Therefore, Statistics Canada, in cooperation with these provinces and territories, has created equivalent areas called CDs for the purpose of disseminating statistical data. In Yukon, the CD is equivalent to the entire territory. Next to provinces and territories, census divisions (CD) are the most stable administrative geographic areas, and are therefore often used in longitudinal analysis.

Resources

Name	Format	Description	Link
File geodatabase (french)	Unknown		https://ftp.cartes.canada.ca/pub/statcan_statcan/Census_Recensement/census-division-2016_division-recensement-2016/census_division_2016_fr.gdb.zip
MXD file (french)	Unknown		https://ftp.cartes.canada.ca/pub/statcan_statcan/Census_Recensement/census-division-2016_division-recensement-2016/Division_de_recensement_2016_fr.mxd
File geodatabase (english)	Unknown		https://ftp.maps.canada.ca/pub/statcan_statcan/Census_Recensement/census-division-2016_division-recensement-2016/census_division_2016_en.gdb.zip
MXD file (english)	Unknown		https://ftp.maps.canada.ca/pub/statcan_statcan/Census_Recensement/census-division-2016_division-recensement-2016/Census_Division_2016_en.mxd
Selection of Statistics Canada socio-economic variables by census division (english)	HTML		https://gcgeo.gc.ca/geonetwork/metadata/eng/dd684fbd-d675-4200-8a6a-4c04d78d99ec
Selection of Statistics Canada socio-economic variables by census division (french)	HTML		https://gcgeo.gc.ca/geonetwork/metadata/fre/dd684fbd-d675-4200-8a6a-4c04d78d99ec
Geosuite (english)	HTML		https://geosuite.statcan.gc.ca/geosuite/en/index
Geosuite (french)	HTML		https://geosuite.statcan.gc.ca/geosuite/fr/index
Census Division	Ersi REST		https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server2_serveur2/rest/services/StatCan/census_division_2016_en/MapServer/0
Census division	Ersi REST		https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server2_serveur2/rest/services/StatCan/census_division_2016_fr/MapServer/0
Census Division (Layer)	WMS		https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server2_serveur2/services/StatCan/census_division_2016_en/MapServer/WMSServer?layers=0&legend_format=image%2Fpng&feature_info_type=text%2Fhtml&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
Census division (Layer)	WMS		https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server2_serveur2/services/StatCan/census_division_2016_fr/MapServer/WMSServer?layers=0&legend_format=image%2Fpng&feature_info_type=text%2Fhtml&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
2016 Census - Boundary files (SHP, GML, TAB) - english	HTML		https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/geo/bound-limit/bound-limit-2016-eng.cfm
2016 Census - Boundary files (SHP, GML, TAB) - french	HTML		https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/geo/bound-limit/bound-limit-2016-fra.cfm
Boundary Files, Reference Guide (english)	HTML		https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/92-160-g/92-160-g2016002-eng.htm
Boundary Files, Reference Guide (french)	HTML		https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/92-160-g/92-160-g2016002-fra.htm

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