Hierarchical File, Census of Population, 2021 [Canada] (Public Use Microdata Files)

The 2021 Hierarchical Census public use microdata file (PUMF) contains 149,789 private households with a total of 361,915 individual records, representing 1% of the population in private households in private occupied dwellings in Canada. These records were drawn from a sample of one quarter of the Canadian population (sample data from questionnaire 2A-L). The 2021 PUMF contains 101 variables. Of these, 80 variables, or 79%, come from the individual universe and 21 variables, or 21%, are drawn from the family, household and dwelling universes. In addition, the file contains four unique record identifiers (ID), an individual weighting factor and 16 replicate weights for the purpose of estimating sampling variability. The file does not include people living in institutions; Canadian citizens living temporarily in other countries; fulltime members of the Canadian Forces stationed outside Canada; persons living in institutional collective dwellings such as hospitals, nursing homes and penitentiaries; and persons living in non-institutional collective dwellings such as work camps, hotels and motels, and student residences.