Data Collection
The main source of data used for
this analysis were 1996 census tracts and were obtained from Rob Fielder's
geoprocessing program. Arc catalogue was used to access the tabular digital
data and the vector digital data. The tabular digital data was then
exported from the geodatabase as a table and the vector digital data was exported
as a shapefile. and convert it into a shapefile. The vector data was
unprojected and so the Geoprocessing Wizard in the ArcInfo-ArcToolbox was
used to project the data into UTM 10n (from North American Datum 1983) using
meters as the reference units. Then it was brought into Arc View where
the tabular digital data was joined to the attributes table.
The landuse data used were downloaded from
the S: drive from the GVRD folder. This data was already in raster format
and did not need to be projected as it was already projected in UTM 10n,
with meters as its reference units.
The data sources used for the background
research are as follows:
- Advisory Committee on Population Health (ACPH). Towards
a Healthy Future - Second Report on the Health of Canadians
. Health
- Murphy, Shirley. Lifestyle practices & occupational
stressors as predictors of Health outcomes in urban firefighters.
International Journal of Stress Management.
9: no. 4: Oct, 2002.
- Statistics Canada website: www.ccsd.ca/factsheets/fs_lic00.htm
- Wilkinson, Richard. Unhealthy Societies
- The Afflictions of Inequality. Routledge, New York, 2001.
