Atlas Overview
Many organizations in the Kamloops area are interested in socio-economic information. Census information, produced by Statistics Canada at five year intervals, is the basis for hundreds of different types of potential socio-economic maps. These maps would be of significant value to support program planning by social service agencies, community planning by local governments, economic development planning, cultural planning and education planning.
Expertise has been developed within the atlas partnership to develop socio-economic maps using census information. This information can be displayed using shapes on the maps at different sizes. Large shapes are of little value for socio-economic maps within the atlas area - they are too large to show differences at a neighbourhood level that are of importance to policy makers.
Maps can be made that show small shapes (dissemination areas) that are of great value to decision makers. The challenge in producing these maps is obtaining the data with the necessary permission from Statistics Canada to display the information using web technology.
Current thematic map layers:
Three sets of socio-economic maps are on the atlas using 2001 census information and large spatial areas. These maps show the distribution of low income individuals, families and households, as well as education levels (less than high-school education). These maps are not at the more detailed "dissemination area".