Query the StatCan WDS for metadata — get_statcan_wds

Get official metadata information from Statistics Canada for a given geographic level. Only available for the 2021 census. Data is cached for the duration of the R session.

Usage

get_statcan_wds_metadata(census_year, level, version = NULL, refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

census_year: census year to get the data for, right now only 2021 is supported
level: geographic level to return the data for, valid choices are "PR","CD","CMACA","CSD","CT","ADA","DA","ER","FED","DPL","POPCNTR", "FSA", "HR"
version: optionally specify a version of the data to download. For example, for FED level data, version 1.3 will access the 2013 represenation order, whereas version 2.0 will access the 2023 representation order. By default the latest available version is accessed.
refresh: default is `FALSE` will refresh the temporary cache if `TRUE`

Value

tibble with the metadata

Examples

# get metadata for federal electoral districts
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
get_statcan_wds_metadata(census_year="2021",level="FED")
} # }