Motivation: Our pertinent national source, Statistics Canada, reports subnational population under the following programs with different combinations of properties:

• Annual, estimate, total population, as early as 1976
• Annual, estimate, by five-year age bracket, from 1996

Response: For international consistency, Moody's Analytics estimates quarterly population by broad (0 to 14, 15 to 64, 25 to 54, 65 and older, 75 and older) and ten-year (15 to 24, 25 to 34, 35 to 44, 45 to 54, 55 to 64, 65 to 74) age-brackets, for the 33 census metropolitan areas of Canada.

Properties

• Measurement: Thousands of persons (Ths. #)
• Adjustment: Seasonally adjusted (SA)
• Native frequency: Quarterly
• Start date: As early as 1976Q2
• Concepts: 11
• Geo coverage: All census metropolitan areas (33)
• Do all concept-geo pairs exist: Yes

The series reside in the historical catalog:

• Canada » Demographics » Population » Moody's Analytics Estimates

and include, for example:

• RPOP0014Q.ICAN_MCAL = Population - Ages 0-14, (Ths. #, SA) - for Calgary CMA

• RPOPQ.ICAN_MTRN     = Population - All ages - for Toronto CMA

Method: Please refer to the background documentation in Mnemonic 411.

See also

• New Estimates: Canada - Population projections by age (Jul 2018)
• New Estimates: Canada subnational - Population for CMAs (Feb 2013)