* Canadian Census templates- "Nationality" ambiguity

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Canadian Census templates- "Nationality" ambiguity

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The Canadian Census often contains both a "Nationality" and a "Racial or tribal origin" field. In the predefined A.S. templates, the "Nationality" census field is typically set to a "Column Type" of "Nationality". However; the associated FH7 default fact appears to be the "National or Tribal Origin" attribute and shows up in fact listings as "Origin: ...". This is quite confusing to someone reading the fact listing and looking at the census.

To be very clear; this is not a criticism of the A.S. program. FH7 doesn't have a "Nationality" or "Citizenship" attribute to which A.S. could map and A.S. could hardly be expected to provide a custom attribute definition to which to map. I've simply tried to document a potential ambiguity.

One thing that I still can't seem to reconcile is that the FH7 "National or Tribal Origin" attribute has no associated date when added directly in FH7, while it does when generated via A.S.
Gary Gauthier
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