After each federal census, the City places a custom order with Statistics Canada to produce neighbourhood-level cross sections of census data for Edmonton.

Statistics Canada provides their data in .ivt format. The benefit of this format is that it allows users to explore multi-dimensional datasets in a variety of cross tabulations. For example, an .ivt file that contains data for neighbourhood, age, gender and income could be used to generate a table of counts by neighbourhood, further broken down by both income and age group, by age group and gender, etc.

In order to provide this data to open data users as soon as possible, we have directly uploaded the .ivt files to our portal. Note that they are compressed into .zip format and will need to be extracted in order to be used.

You can open .ivt files with the Beyond 20/20 Professional Browser (https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/public/beyond20-20), which is free to download. If you’re looking for some support on getting started using the software, Carleton University Library has a repository of resources (https://library.carleton.ca/guides/help/beyond-2020-how-use-beyond-2020) including video tutorials and PDFs.

After each federal census, the City places a custom order with Statistics Canada to produce neighbourhood-level cross sections of census data for Edmonton.

Statistics Canada provides their data in .ivt format. The benefit of this format is that it allows users to explore multi-dimensional datasets in a variety of cross tabulations. For example, an .ivt file that contains data for neighbourhood, age, gender and income could be used to generate a table of counts by neighbourhood, further broken down by both income and age group, by age group and gender, etc.

In order to provide this data to open data users as soon as possible, we have directly uploaded the .ivt files to our portal. Note that they are compressed into .zip format and will need to be extracted in order to be used.

You can open .ivt files with the Beyond 20/20 Professional Browser (https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/public/beyond20-20), which is free to download. If you’re looking for some support on getting started using the software, Carleton University Library has a repository of resources (https://library.carleton.ca/guides/help/beyond-2020-how-use-beyond-2020) including video tutorials and PDFs.