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Term: Standard Geographical Classification System
Glossary Definition
Last Updated: 2006-01-12
Definition:
Statistics Canada's official system of classifying geographical areas in Canada; it represents a variety of different levels of geographical aggregation. It is frequently used for geocoding population-level data.
Related terms
- Census Agglomeration (CA)
- Census Division (CD)
- Census Metropolitan Area (CMA)
- Census SubDivision (CSD)
- Census Tract (CT)
- Dissemination Area (DA)
- Enumeration Area (EA)
- Geocoding
- Statistics Canada
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Manitoba Centre for Health Policy
Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine,
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences,
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University of Manitoba
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