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Term: Area Suppression

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Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2007-11-02

Definition:

To protect the confidentiality of individual responses Statistics Canada has adopted a technique known as area suppression. This involves the deletion of all characteristic data for geographic areas with populations below a specified size.

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