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Term: Area Suppression
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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