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Document Census 2021 table population and data dictionary#1185

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@rbahreh rbahreh commented Mar 18, 2025

What this pull request accomplishes:

  • Set up initial documentation for the census2021 schema
  • Added tables for profile data and data dictionary entries
  • Ensured that existing applications depending on these tables (midblock model and teoz) remain unaffected by these changes (table definitions)

Issue(s) this solves:

What, in particular, needs to reviewed:

  • Check that the new census2021 tables are structured correctly to hold all the 2021 Census data we need.

What needs to be done by a sysadmin after this PR is merged

I am not aware of any automated tasks that read data from these tables except the ones we are working with. However, I would like to discuss whether the census data update can be turn into an automatic pipeline in future?

@rbahreh rbahreh added Documentation New Data for creating pipelines for new datasets open data labels Mar 18, 2025
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There's a small typo in the readme and some fluffs to fix and then this can be merged! Yay Census data!!!

# CENSUS <!-- omit in toc -->

The Data products are available [here](https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/index-eng.cfm) from 1996 census to 2021 census. The pcensus profile 2021 is organised in zip files by Province or territory, which the TAB zipped file "Canada, provinces, territories, census divisions (CDs), census subdivisions (CSDs) and dissemination areas (DAs) - Ontario only" from Comprehensive download files section was downloaded from [here](https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/download-telecharger.cfm?Lang=E).

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Minor typo in the second sentence, second word, "pcensus"

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