>Hi,
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>I wasn't sure where to stick this - seems like chatter is the default for general stuff. Anyway, I'm in the middle of doing an analysis of credit union membership in Manitoba - demographic stuff. I have a table with just under 400,000 records - one of the fields has the postal code. I'm looking to find a data file that contains information related to the 'forward sortation' portion of the postal code (the first three characters).
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>We want to do some slicing and dicing of this data and a file containing this information would be useful. Any ideas on where I may be able to get my mitts on one of these files (by the way, I had a cursory look at the Canada Post website all I could find was a $2,000/year subscription for this type of information - I'd like to think that it could be had for less than that). TIA.

If you want real demographic information you will have to pay...
I have used PSearch and PCensus in the past...
I believe 'Tetrad' made the software...
the reason for the high price is the price the canadian government charges for its census information placed in an electronic retrievable format....

the company i was working for at the time paid about $10,000 for PSearch and PCensus.....
they were both great products....

HTH
Dave.