The national sample of the 1901 census of Canada was created by the Canadian Families Project at the University of Victoria between 1996 and 2001. The database contains all information for sampled dwellings from Schedule 1 of the census (the population schedule) and from Schedule 2 (the property schedule). The sampling point was the dwelling number in the first column of the enumeration form. The sample was a random sample of five percent of all dwellings within each of 129 microfilm reels was selected. This means that there is a degree of geographic stratification. Information on all individual persons within each sampled dwelling was entered. The sample yielded 50,941 dwellings and 265,287 individuals. A more complete description of the sampling procedure and data entry methods can be found in the User’s Guide. The User’s Guide contains a copy of instructions to enumerators.