Dwellings Occupied by Usual Residents and Population in Dwellings (6) of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 100% Data

Geography = Alberta

Dwellings occupied by usual residents and population in dwellings (6)	Values
Total - Dwellings occupied by usual residents	1,530,870
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents ^Footnote 1	1,527,675
Collective dwellings occupied by usual residents ^Footnote 2	3,190
Total - Population in dwellings ^Footnote 3	4,066,965
Population in private dwellings	3,978,145
Population in collective dwellings	88,820

Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

'Private dwelling occupied by usual residents' refers to a private dwelling in which a person or a group of persons is permanently residing. Also included are private dwellings whose usual residents are temporarily absent on May 10, 2016.

Footnote 2

'Collective dwelling' refers to a dwelling of a commercial, institutional or communal nature. It may be identified by a sign on the premises or by an enumerator speaking with the person in charge, a resident, a neighbour, etc. Included are lodging or rooming houses, hotels, motels, tourist establishments, nursing homes, hospitals, staff residences, military bases, work camps, jails, group homes, and so on.

Footnote 3

Population in dwellings excludes persons residing outside Canada on government, military or diplomatic postings.

Data quality note(s) – Alberta

• Incomplete enumeration flag
  Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.
• Short-form data quality flag
  Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.7%.
• Short-form income data quality flag
  Default. Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016012.