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- Acknowledgements
- Overview
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Statistical unit
- The CPC community name in the Address Lookup File
- 1.4 Files for locating postal delivery installations
- 2.1 Persons and the postal code reported in the census
- 3.0 Geocoding rules and measures of quality
- 3.3 Measures of quality
- The quality indicator QI_1
- Conclusion
- Appendix B – Information data quality and spatial data quality
- Elements of spatial data quality
- Appendix C – CPC community and CSD
The authors would like to thank Belinda Ha for her analysis and tabulations in SAS, Robert Parenteau, Sandra Porter and Joe Kresovic for their editorial help as well as Cathy Caldwell for implementing the automated geocoding.
Statistics Canada creates files that provide the link between postal codes and the geographic areas by which it disseminates statistical data. By linking postal codes to the Statistics Canada geographic areas, Statistics Canada facilitates the extraction and subsequent aggregation of data for selected geographic areas from files available to users....
Statistics Canada creates files that provide the link between postal codes and the geographic areas by which it disseminates statistical data. By linking postal codes to the Statistics Canada geographic areas, Statistics Canada facilitates the extraction and subsequent aggregation of data for selected geographic areas from files available to user...
This paper has two objectives: (1) to establish a conceptual framework articulating the relationship between postal codes and geographic areas; and, (2) to subsequently, establish rules for linking postal codes to standard geographic areas. 1 Postal codes are managed by Canada Post Corporation (CPC) for the efficient sorting and delivery of mail. ...
A Statistical unit is the unit of observation or measurement for which data are collected or derived. The basic statistical unit for social statistics is the person, which is the unit of analysis for most social statistics programs. Other units used in social statistics include the dwelling and the household. The association between the postal code...
Identification of the municipality serviced by a postal code is an important initial step in “zeroing in” on where the postal code should be geocoded. The 1st character of the postal code (indicating the province or territory) in combination with the CPC community name does in some (but not all) cases point to the current municipality or census su...
PCType 3 and PCType 5 postal codes are associated with the pick-up of mail from a postal delivery installation (rather than delivery to a civic address). The civic addresses associated with the postal delivery installation are available on the Householder File. The point locations for these postal delivery installations were also recently acquired...
The one source containing a reported postal code and the standard geographic area for persons in the entirety of Canada is the Census of Population. Households in Canada are required to report (or confirm) their postal code on the census form. This respondent postal code is typically the postal code of the residence of the household. This can b...
Rules based geocoding can be developed by combining the information from the census and the CPC files. Quality indicators can be developed for each record geocoded with this approach since both the rules based method of geocoding and the information used for geocoding can be used to create the quality indicators.
The quality of the postal code geocoding can be both improved and better reported given the concept of geocoding to FSA and postal code service areas. (Background and definitions of the measures of quality are provided in Appendix B). A. Timeliness Timeliness can be measured in terms of the difference between the following: The vintage of the post...
This indicator is for the quality of the general area to which the geocoding was done. It should be an indicator of the certainty in terms of geocoding to the correct census subdivision (and correct part of that CSD). Search area is based on FSA service area and CPC community to CSD correspondence Search area is based on FSA service area only Sear...
The intentions of this paper were: (1) to study the postal code concepts and descriptors used by Canada Post Corporation; (2) to establish a conceptual framework articulating the relationship between postal codes and standard geographic areas; and, (3) to subsequently, establish business rules for linking postal codes to standard geographic areas. ...
The essence of Statistics Canada’s policy on data quality and methodology is that users must be provided with the information necessary to judge its fitness for their intended use. Six dimensions of quality identified within the concept of "fitness for use" are shown in the table below: The six dimensions of information quality The relevance of st...
Lineage: Describes the history of the spatial data, including descriptions of the source material from which the data were derived, and the methods of derivation. It also contains the dates of the source material, and all transformations involved in producing the final digital files or map products. Positional accuracy: Refers to the absolute and r...
The primary approach to geocoding that is recommended in this paper is using service areas to create search areas. However, historically the primary approach to geocoding has been to locate the CSD or part of the CSD represented by the CPC community and then geocode based on the address information. The correspondence between the CPC community an...
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