Standards of service to the public Statistics Canada is committed to serving its clients in a prompt, reliable and courteous manner and in the official language of their choice. [...] This provides a periods exhibited population increases), declining typology of nine types of communities: (when at least three of four inter-censal periods Type of Region Type of Community Growing Growing Stable Declining Growing Stable Stable Declining Growing Declining Stable Declining Cross-tabulations were used to summarize the type of community/region. [...] Almost percent of the declining communities were in stable two-thirds (60 percent) of the communities in regions and 17 percent were in growing regions. [...] Recall, 22 percent of all To get a better appreciation of the share of communities were declining communities within Canada’s population associated with each type of declining regions. [...] The location quotient (vertical axis) indicates the intensity of employment in agriculture relative to the national share of employment in agriculture in 2001.