Usual place of work: Refers to persons who report to the same workplace location at the beginning of each shift, excluding those who work at home or outside Canada.

No fixed workplace: Includes persons such as building contractors, travelling salespersons, independent truck drivers, etc.

Mode of transportation: Refers to the principal method of transportation used to get to work in the week prior to Census Day. If the person did not work during that week but had worked at some time since January 1, 1995, the information relates to the job of longest duration.

Census metropolitan area (CMA): a very large urban area (known as the urban core) together with adjacent urban and rural areas that have a high degree of social and economic integration with the urban core. A CMA has an urban core population of at least 100,000, based on the previous census.

View definitions for 1996 Census Metropolitan Areas:  St. John's ,  Halifax ,  Saint John ,  Saguenay ,  Québec ,  Sherbrooke ,  Trois-Rivières ,  Montréal ,  Ottawa–Gatineau Ontario–Quebec ,  Ottawa-Gatineau (Quebec part) ,  Ottawa–Gatineau (Ontario part) ,  Kingston ,  Oshawa ,  Toronto ,  Hamilton ,  St. Catharines–Niagara ,  Kitchener ,  London ,  Windsor ,  Sudbury,  Thunder Bay ,  Winnipeg ,  Regina ,  Saskatoon ,  Calgary ,  Edmonton ,  Abbotsford ,  Vancouver ,  Victoria