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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
^ Pretty sure "urban population centres" refers to metro areas rather than municipalities.
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If you add up the CMAs in BC that had over 100,000 people in 2021, It includes Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, Abbotsford-Mission, Nanaimo, Kamloops and Chilliwack. Together they're 76% of BC's population. If you add the population of the other 21 CMAs that had less than 100,000 people in 2021, then you get 90% of BC's population living in Metropolitan areas.
So it's either using municipalties, old data, or some other definition of 'urban'.
For Manitoba, there's only one CMA over 500,000, and no others with 100,000. Winnipeg CMA had 834,678 people in the 2021 census, which was 62% of Manitoba. If you take Winnipeg municipality, it had 749,607 people, so 56% of Manitoba's population. That suggests the data for 'urban areas' uses municipalities, not CMAs, while the 'metropolitan' data uses CMAs.
Add the other 5 CMAs wiith population under 100,000, and you get 72% of Manitobans living in CMAs.