Read the Dissemination Geographies Relationship File — get_statcan_geography

Reads the Dissemination Geographies Relationship File for the given census year. The table contains the information on how all the geographic levels are related for each area. Data gets cached after first download if the cancensus cache path has been set. A reference guide is available at https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/982600032021001

get_statcan_geography_relationships(census_year = "2021", refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

census_year: census year to get the data for, right now only 2021 is supported, for older years `get_statcan_geographic_attributes()` can fill in most of the information
refresh: (logical) refresh the cache if true

Value

tibble with the relationship data

Examples

# list add the cached census data
if (FALSE) {
get_statcan_geography_relationships("2021")
}