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.
get_statcan_wds_metadata(census_year, level, version = NULL, refresh = FALSE)census year to get the data for, right now only 2021 is supported
geographic level to return the data for, valid choices are "PR","CD","CMACA","CSD","CT","ADA","DA","ER","FED","DPL","POPCNTR", "FSA"
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.
default is `FALSE` will refresh the temporary cache if `TRUE`
tibble with the metadata
# get metadata for federal electoral districts
if (FALSE) {
get_statcan_wds_metadata(census_year="2021",level="FED")
}