DOI: 10.14288/1.0428830
title: HART - 2006 Census of Canada - Selected Characteristics of Census Households for Housing Need - Canada, all provinces and territories at the Census Division (CD) and Census Subdivision (CSD) level [custom tabulation]

description: &lt;p&gt; For more information, please visit HART.ubc.ca. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART)&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; This dataset includes 18 tables which draw upon data from the 2006 Census of Canada. The tables are a custom order and contains data pertaining to core housing need and characteristics of households. 16 of the tables each cover a different geography in Canada: one for Canada as a whole, one for all Canadian census divisions (CD), and 14 for all census subdivisions (CSD) across Canada. The last two tables contains the median income for all geographies. Statistics Canada used these median incomes as the "area median household income (AMHI)," from which they derived some of the variables within the Shelter Costs/Household Income dimension. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Included alongside the data tables is a guide to HART's housing need assessment methodology. This guide is intended to support independent use of HART's custom data both to allow for transparent verification of our analysis, as well as supporting efforts to utilize the data for analysis beyond what HART did. There are many variables in the data order that we did not use that may be of value for others. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The dataset is in Beyond 20/20 (.ivt) format. The Beyond 20/20 browser is required in order to open it. This software can be freely downloaded from the Statistics Canada website: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/public/beyond20-20 (Windows only). For information on how to use Beyond 20/20, please see: http://odesi2.scholarsportal.info/documentation/Beyond2020/beyond20-quickstart.pdf https://wiki.ubc.ca/Library:Beyond_20/20_Guide &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Custom order from Statistics Canada includes the following dimensions and variables:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Geography: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; - Country of Canada, all CDs & Country as a whole&lt;br /&gt; - All 10 Provinces (Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island (PEI), Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia), all CSDs & each Province as a whole&lt;br /&gt; - All 3 Territories (Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon), all CSDs & each Territory as a whole&lt;br /&gt; &lt;em&gt;The global non-response rate (GNR) is an important measure of census data quality. It combines total non-response (households) and partial non-response (questions). A lower GNR indicates a lower risk of non-response bias and, as a result, a lower risk of inaccuracy. The counts and estimates for geographic areas with a GNR equal to or greater than 50% are not published in the standard products. The counts and estimates for these areas have a high risk of non-response bias, and in most cases, should not be released.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Universe:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Full Universe: &lt;br /&gt; Private Households in Non-farm Non-band Off-reserve Occupied Private Dwellings with Income Greater than zero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Households examined for Core Housing Need: &lt;br /&gt; Private, non-farm, non-reserve, owner- or renter-households with incomes greater than zero and shelter-cost-to-income ratios less than 100% are assessed for 'Core Housing Need.' Non-family Households with at least one household maintainer aged 15 to 29 attending school are considered not to be in Core Housing Need, regardless of their housing circumstances. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Variables:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;b&gt;Housing indicators in Core Housing Universe (3)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 1. Total - Private Households by core housing need status&lt;br /&gt; 2. Households examined for core housing need&lt;br /&gt; 3. Households in core housing need&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Tenure Including Presence of Mortgage and Subsidized Housing; Household size (11)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 1. Total - Household tenure and mortgage status&lt;br /&gt; 2. Owners&lt;br /&gt; 3. With mortgage&lt;br /&gt; 4. Without mortgage&lt;br /&gt; 5. Renters&lt;br /&gt; 6. Total - Household size&lt;br /&gt; 7. 1 person&lt;br /&gt; 8. 2 persons&lt;br /&gt; 9. 3 persons&lt;br /&gt; 10. 4 persons&lt;br /&gt; 11. 5 or more persons&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Shelter costs groups/statistics (20)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 1. Total – Private households by household income proportion to AMHI_1&lt;br /&gt; 2. Households with income 20% or under of area median household income (AMHI)&lt;br /&gt; 3. Households with income 21% to 50% of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; 4. Households with income 51% to 80% of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; 5. Households with income 81% to 120% of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; 6. Households with income 121% or over of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; 7. Total – Private households by household income proportion to AMHI_2&lt;br /&gt; 8. Households with income 30% and under of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; 9. Households with income 31% to 60% of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; 10. Households with income 61% or more of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; 11. Total – Private households by shelter cost proportion to AMHI_1&lt;br /&gt; 12. Households with shelter cost 0.5% and under of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; 13. Households with shelter cost 0.6% to 1.25% of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; 14. Households with shelter cost 1.26% to 2% of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; 15. Households with shelter cost 2.1% to 3% of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; 16. Households with shelter cost 3.1% or over of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; 17. Total – Private households by shelter cost proportion to AMHI_2&lt;br /&gt; 18. Households with shelter cost 0.75% or under of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; 19. Households with shelter cost 0.76% to 1.5% of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; 20. Households with shelter cost greater than or equal to 1.6% of AMHI&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Selected characteristics of the households (47)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 1.Total - Household type&lt;br /&gt; 2. Census-family households&lt;br /&gt; 3. One-census-family households&lt;br /&gt; 4. Couple-family households&lt;br /&gt; 5. With children&lt;br /&gt; 6. Without children&lt;br /&gt; 7. Lone-parent-family households&lt;br /&gt; 8. Multiple-family households&lt;br /&gt; 9. Non-family households&lt;br /&gt; 10. One person only&lt;br /&gt; 11. Two or more persons&lt;br /&gt; 12. Total - Aboriginal Status of Household &lt;br /&gt; 13. Aboriginal household &lt;br /&gt; 14. Total - Visible minority household&lt;br /&gt; 15. Visible Minority household&lt;br /&gt; 16.Total - Sex of the primary household maintainer (PHM)&lt;br /&gt; 17. PHM is male&lt;br /&gt; 18. PHM is female&lt;br /&gt; 19. Total - Private households by Aboriginal identity of the primary household maintainer (PHM)&lt;br /&gt; 20. PHM is Aboriginal&lt;br /&gt; 21. Total - Visible minority status of the primary household maintainer (PHM)&lt;br /&gt; 22. Primary household maintainer is Chinese&lt;br /&gt; 23. Primary household maintainer is South Asian&lt;br /&gt; 24. Primary household maintainer is Black&lt;br /&gt; 25. Primary household maintainer is a Filipino&lt;br /&gt; 26. Primary household maintainer is Latin American&lt;br /&gt; 27. Primary household maintainer is Southeast Asian&lt;br /&gt; 28. Primary household maintainer is Arab&lt;br /&gt; 29. Primary household maintainer is West Asian&lt;br /&gt; 30. Primary household maintainer is Korean&lt;br /&gt; 31. Primary household maintainer is Japanese&lt;br /&gt; 32. Primary household maintainer is Visible minority, n.i.e. &lt;em&gt;The abbreviation 'n.i.e.' means 'not included elsewhere.' Includes persons with a write-in response such as 'Guyanese,' 'West Indian,' 'Tibetan,' 'Polynesian,' 'Pacific Islander,' etc.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 33. Primary household maintainer is Multiple visible minority&lt;br /&gt; 34. Primary household maintainer is not a visible minority&lt;br /&gt; 35. Primary household maintainer is Aboriginal self-reporting&lt;br /&gt; 36. Total - Private households by immigrant status and period of immigration of the primary household maintainer (PHM)&lt;br /&gt; 37. PHM is an immigrant&lt;br /&gt; 38. PHM is a recent immigrant (immigrated between 2001 and 2006)&lt;br /&gt; 39. Total - Private households by household family type of the primary household maintainer (PHM)&lt;br /&gt; 40. PHM is a female lone-parent&lt;br /&gt; 41. Total – Private households by age group of the primary household maintainer (PHM)&lt;br /&gt; 42. PHM is under 24 years&lt;br /&gt; 43. PHM is between 15 to 19 years&lt;br /&gt; 44. PHM is between 20 to 24 years&lt;br /&gt; 45. PHM is between 65 years and over&lt;br /&gt; 46. PHM is between 65 to 84 years&lt;br /&gt; 47. PHM is between 85 years and over&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Median income (2)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 1. Number of households&lt;br /&gt; 2. Median income of household ($)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;em&gt;The household median income in the custom tabulation were estimates from a 25% sample-based data that have undergone weighting. These weights were applied to the sample data to produce estimates from the census long-form sample. The incomes used were drawn from the previous tax year, and therefore represent 2005 dollars.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;File list (19 total):&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Original data files (18):&lt;br /&gt; 1. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6 CT.5 ( Canada)_revised.ivt&lt;br /&gt; 2. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6 CT.6 ( Census Divisions)_revised.ivt&lt;br /&gt; 3. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6 CT.7 (ON_CSDs).ivt&lt;br /&gt; 4. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6 CT.8 (BC_CSDs).ivt&lt;br /&gt; 5. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6 CT.20 (AB_CSDs).ivt&lt;br /&gt; 6. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6 CT.21 (MB_CSDs).ivt&lt;br /&gt; 7. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6 CT.22 (SK_CSDs).ivt&lt;br /&gt; 8. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6 CT.23.1 (Que_CSDs).ivt [1 of 2 files for Quebec]&lt;br /&gt; 9. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6 CT.23.2 (Que_CSDs).ivt [2 of 2 files for Quebec]&lt;br /&gt; 10. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6 CT.24 (NFL_CSDs).ivt&lt;br /&gt; 11. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6 CT.25 (PEI_CSDs).ivt&lt;br /&gt; 12. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6_CT.26 (NB CSDs).ivt&lt;br /&gt; 13. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6_CT.27 (NS CSDs).ivt&lt;br /&gt; 14. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6_CT.28 (YK_CSDs)_2006.ivt&lt;br /&gt; 15. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6_CT.29 (NWT_CSDs)_2006.ivt&lt;br /&gt; 16. ORD-05563-K2P1Y6_CT.30 (Nunavut_CSDs)_2006.ivt&lt;br /&gt; 17. 2006_MedianIncome_Provinces, Territories and CSDs.ivt&lt;br /&gt; 18. 2006_MedianIncome_Canada_CDs.ivt&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Housing Needs Assessment Methodology guide (1):&lt;br /&gt; 1. HNA-Methodology.pdf &lt;br/&gt; &lt;/p&gt; (2022)