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Originally Posted by Changing City
Stats Canada says "Students who are away at school or for a summer job should be included on their parents' questionnaire if they return to live with them at any other time of the year.
Students living elsewhere all year, such as in an apartment or shared housing, and who do not return to live at their parents' home should be included on the questionnaire at their usual place of residence."
So just as locations with a student residence may have a low or negligable count, residential neighbourhoods may show a higher popualtion than is true when university is in session.
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It may be true that it goes in both directions, but there isn't any sort of symmetry there since it's going to go much farther in one direction than the other. University students tend to be a fairly narrow age range covering 4ish years in the late teens and early 20s. So a residential nabe will have plenty of households without someone of that age range (and not everyone in that age range leaves home for uni). But a university residence can house hundreds of people in a single building and none would be counted since typically uni residences are specifically for people there temporarily during the school year.
So a residential area that loses a couple people during the school year isn't going to be much different while an student heavy area gaining hundreds or thousands during the school year will be noticeably livelier. In other words, not including students living in residence is much more misleading for student-heavy areas for 2/3 of the year in terms of the urban experience on the ground.
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