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Canada Census

According to the Rationale, the following census data are collected and manipulated to fit the goal.

The data is 2006 census data, provided by Blake Byron Walker, SFU

Age

In the original data, age groups are divided in 5 year interval from 0 to 80. For the purpose of this project, people in age 0-9 (children) and age >70 are considered to be more vulnerable, in another word, are less efficient to evacuate during and after earthquake.

The data is in excel spreadsheet format containig DAUID. It is joined with BC coast line shape file in SFU SIS lab using the DAUID in ArcMap and display it as a shape file.

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Population Distribution

The population data is directly used in ArcMap to build the shape file.

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Building Construction Period

Building construcion periods are originally divided in 10 year interval. From befor 1960 until 2006. I classified them into 4 groups: prev 1960; 1961-1981; 1981-1996; 1996-2006 where buildings constructed before 1960 are more likely to collapse and buildings built recently (10 years from data collected time) are more likely to stay. The same processure is used to map display them in ArcMap.

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Hospital Location

Data of hospital location are collected from google earth. A list of BC hospital is availabe in wikipedia and I mapped them in google earth. From google earth, I export the coordinate data and display it in ArcMap.

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VANDIX

VANDIX: The Vancouver Area Neighbourhood Deprivation Index, is a census-based measure of socio-economic status

It is built with 21 variables using 2006 census data and some survey results. The variables include material wealth; mobility; education; employment; etc;. The final score reflect how "healthy" the people are at different area of vancouver. The positive scores means poorer health and negative scores means better health.

It is originally built by Nathaniel Bell. However, VANDIX originally only study Vancouver area, it is rebuilted by Blake using data from whole BC.

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For the original work of VANDIX: http://journal.cpha.ca/index.php/cjph/article/view/3185