ENV SOCTY 2HI3 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Dissemination block - Answer -smallest geographic area for which population and
dwelling counts are disseminated
Similar to a city block, bounded on all four sides by roads/other boundaries
Dissemination area - Answer -next highest level of geography after dissemination
block; smallest standard geographic area for which ALL CENSUS data across the
country can be applied/ are disseminated
A small, relatively stable geographic unit composed of one or more neighboring
dessemination blocks
Includes a population of 400 - 700 ppl
Census rural - Answer -popltn living outside settlements of 1 000 inhabitants and w a
popltn density of 400 or more ppl per square km (effort to consider both total pop count
and density)
What's common to diff definitions of rural - Answer -isolated from urban core
Rural and small town RST - Answer -incorporates nuances of what it means to be rural
by looking at commuting zones
Individuals in towns or municipalities outside commuting zones of larger urban centres
(w 10k or more)
Sactype - Answer -one standard we typically use in Ontario: Statistical Area
Classifications that look into MIZ types
Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) - Answer -area consisting of one or more
neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core
Has to have a total population of greater than 100 000 of which 50 000 must live in the
urban core
Consists of one or more csds
E.g., Hamilton bc pop is greater than 100k and urban core is greater than 50k
Census agglomeration - Answer -main labour market area of an urban core of at least
10 000 inhabitants
Once a CA reaches 100k it changes to a CMA
E.g. OWEN SOUND
Census tract - Answer -permanent neighbourhood or rural community in cmas, and
most cas over 50 000 population in the urban area
, -population bt 2500 and 8 000, preferred avg of 4000, greatest possible social and
economic homogeneity; a compact shape
Census subdivision (HINT: CUB) - Answer -(C ities, etc. Ubnique data abt... B
oundaries,,)
Happy medium
Cities, townships, reserves, municipalities
Boundaries can be affected by municipal restructuring
Small enuf to capture unique data abt a community but big enuf tht u can compare it to
other parts of province
Census divisions - Answer -counties, regional districts, rural municipalities
49 cds in Ontario
HAMILTON - Answer -a census division and a census subdivision
2 key features of the geography hierarchy - Answer -units of geo get smaller as you go
from top to bottom of page and
3 distinct arms
The smallest standard geographic area for which all census data can be applied -
Answer -dissemination area (das cover all the territory of Canada)
Trend of mortality due to injury rate or poisoning: - Answer -the most urban dwellers
have the lowest mortality rates when compared to increasingly rural settings (most rural
is No Metropolitan Influenced Zones)
SAC type ranks from 1 to 8 based on how urban or rural a community is (Census
metropolitan area is the most urban, at 1) - Answer -
Cas and cmas - Answer -actual urban areas/cores, further and further away as sactype
approaches 8
Major criticisms of sactype - Answer -unable to distinguish rural from remote,
considered an aggregate category
Solely relies on population counts and distributions as opposed to (doesn't bother
incorporating intangibles like commuting flow and how adjacent it is, among other
nuances)
STATS can recently released the Remoteness Index. What are 0 and 1 - Answer -looks
at relative remoteness of census subdivisions and ranks
0 is most accessible and 1 is most remote
What does the remoteness index take into account - Answer -takes into account travel
cost to represent travel burden AND population size of all popctrs within a given radius
Dissemination block - Answer -smallest geographic area for which population and
dwelling counts are disseminated
Similar to a city block, bounded on all four sides by roads/other boundaries
Dissemination area - Answer -next highest level of geography after dissemination
block; smallest standard geographic area for which ALL CENSUS data across the
country can be applied/ are disseminated
A small, relatively stable geographic unit composed of one or more neighboring
dessemination blocks
Includes a population of 400 - 700 ppl
Census rural - Answer -popltn living outside settlements of 1 000 inhabitants and w a
popltn density of 400 or more ppl per square km (effort to consider both total pop count
and density)
What's common to diff definitions of rural - Answer -isolated from urban core
Rural and small town RST - Answer -incorporates nuances of what it means to be rural
by looking at commuting zones
Individuals in towns or municipalities outside commuting zones of larger urban centres
(w 10k or more)
Sactype - Answer -one standard we typically use in Ontario: Statistical Area
Classifications that look into MIZ types
Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) - Answer -area consisting of one or more
neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core
Has to have a total population of greater than 100 000 of which 50 000 must live in the
urban core
Consists of one or more csds
E.g., Hamilton bc pop is greater than 100k and urban core is greater than 50k
Census agglomeration - Answer -main labour market area of an urban core of at least
10 000 inhabitants
Once a CA reaches 100k it changes to a CMA
E.g. OWEN SOUND
Census tract - Answer -permanent neighbourhood or rural community in cmas, and
most cas over 50 000 population in the urban area
, -population bt 2500 and 8 000, preferred avg of 4000, greatest possible social and
economic homogeneity; a compact shape
Census subdivision (HINT: CUB) - Answer -(C ities, etc. Ubnique data abt... B
oundaries,,)
Happy medium
Cities, townships, reserves, municipalities
Boundaries can be affected by municipal restructuring
Small enuf to capture unique data abt a community but big enuf tht u can compare it to
other parts of province
Census divisions - Answer -counties, regional districts, rural municipalities
49 cds in Ontario
HAMILTON - Answer -a census division and a census subdivision
2 key features of the geography hierarchy - Answer -units of geo get smaller as you go
from top to bottom of page and
3 distinct arms
The smallest standard geographic area for which all census data can be applied -
Answer -dissemination area (das cover all the territory of Canada)
Trend of mortality due to injury rate or poisoning: - Answer -the most urban dwellers
have the lowest mortality rates when compared to increasingly rural settings (most rural
is No Metropolitan Influenced Zones)
SAC type ranks from 1 to 8 based on how urban or rural a community is (Census
metropolitan area is the most urban, at 1) - Answer -
Cas and cmas - Answer -actual urban areas/cores, further and further away as sactype
approaches 8
Major criticisms of sactype - Answer -unable to distinguish rural from remote,
considered an aggregate category
Solely relies on population counts and distributions as opposed to (doesn't bother
incorporating intangibles like commuting flow and how adjacent it is, among other
nuances)
STATS can recently released the Remoteness Index. What are 0 and 1 - Answer -looks
at relative remoteness of census subdivisions and ranks
0 is most accessible and 1 is most remote
What does the remoteness index take into account - Answer -takes into account travel
cost to represent travel burden AND population size of all popctrs within a given radius
