Employment by industry data sourced from the 2001 Census of Population long form. The dataset is archived and no longer maintained, with users advised to consult Statistics Canada for current information. It provides counts for multiple geographies including provinces, counties, municipalities, electoral districts, and health authorities.
Use Cases
- Analyze historical industry employment distribution based on census-provided counts.
- Compare labour market structures across different municipal and electoral district geographies.
- Study demographic and economic trends in Nova Scotia prior to 2001.
- Reference archived community-level employment data for historical record-keeping.
Strengths
- Data covers multiple granular geographies including communities, municipalities, and health authorities.
- Source is the authoritative Census of Population long form from 2001.
Limitations
- Data is archived and not maintained or updated; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of Nova Scotia
- Collection Method
- Census of Population (long form)
- Time Range
- 2001
- Geography
- Nova Scotia (provinces, counties, communities, municipalities, district health authorities, community health boards, economic regions, police districts, school boards, municipal electoral districts, provincial electoral districts, federal electoral districts, regional development authorities, watersheds)