Guide to the Census

Standard geographic levels

Canadian Census Analyser from University of Toronto (authentication required) (recommended for mapping)
(currently only through 2016 Census)

Statistics Canada website

• 2021 Census profiles to DA level
• 2016 Census profiles to DA level
• 2011 Census profiles to DA level
• 2011 NHS profiles to CT level
  • includes DA level (use Census Division 4806 for Calgary DAs)
• Census Datasets from Statistics Canada (filter by Topic or Geography)

Canadian Century Research Infrastructure Census tables (CSDs and CDs) 1911-1951

• matching GIS layers also available

Public use microdata files

• Census 1901, 1911, 1971-2006
• National Household Survey 2011

Indigenous peoples and communities

Other geographic levels

• Calgary Community Census (download from here)

List of files available:

• 2016 - Profile and Boundary File
• 2011 - Census/NHS Profile
• 2006 - Profile
• 2001 - Profile and Boundary File
• 1996 - Profile
• 1991 - Profile

• Calgary Civic Census data by community and ward, pdf format
• Calgary Open Data data and gis files, by community and ward, 1999 - current
• An interactive web map of Calgary census tract boundaries for each of the censuses from 1986 to 2016.

Download Beyond 20/20 software to open .ivt files