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Definition for Sampling Variance – see section 3.4.1 of the following Statistics Canada publication: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/12-587-x/12-587-x2003001-eng.pdf
Definition of Index and other terms – http://www.statcan.gc.ca/edu/power-pouvoir/glossary-glossaire/5214842-eng.htm#p
See 2017-03-10 Meeting notes for more definitions of some of these concepts.
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