Data Collection.

Data collection was a very simple process in this analysis. The road network map data and enumeration

map data was supplied by Statistics Canada 1996 digital files. Because Canadian data is difficult to obtain, I had to use population totals for 1991. I obtained this information from the University of Toronto under the Canadian Census Profile Tables.

This is what the data for the road networks originally looked like. I had to remove (clean) additional information such

such as pipelines, parks, golf courses, rail lines and etc.

This is an example of the mapped enumeration data and a section of the population totals data. For the mapped

enumeration data I had to eliminate the all data that was not within the defined boundaries of Vancouver city limits. I had to physically match the census tract name from the enumeration data with the census tract name from the population profile tables to derive my population analysis.