Download User's Guide - Charitable Donors

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 4
The content of the databank .......................................................................................... 5
DATA SOURCE ......................................................................................................................... 7
DATA FREQUENCY .................................................................................................................. 7
DATA QUALITY ......................................................................................................................... 7
i) Number of Canadian taxfilers..................................................................................... 7
ii) Elderly population...................................................................................................... 8
iii) Income...................................................................................................................... 9
CONFIDENTIALITY AND ROUNDING .................................................................................... 10
SUPPRESSED DATA .............................................................................................................. 10
GLOSSARY OF TERMS.......................................................................................................... 11
STATISTICAL TABLES ........................................................................................................... 13
Footnotes and Historical Availability ............................................................................ 13
GEOGRAPHY .......................................................................................................................... 14
Geographic Levels - Postal Geography ....................................................................... 15
Adding postal areas without duplication ........................................................... 20
Concordance files............................................................................................. 22
Old walk/new walk file ...................................................................................... 22
Geographic Levels - Census Geography ..................................................................... 24
Geographic Levels - Special Geography ..................................................................... 26
Conversion files ................................................................................................ 27
WE INVITE YOUR COMMENTS ............................................................................................. 29
LIST OF DATA PRODUCTS AVAILABLE ............................................................................... 30
REGIONAL REFERENCE CENTRES ..................................................................................... 31
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