A growing body of research is showing an association between low levels of education and poor health outcomes, including increased risk of premature death. Investigating this relationship is limited due to a lack of sociodemographic information in administrative data in Canada, including death records. To fill this data gap, Statistics Canada is releasing a new area-level measure of the population with less than high school education using the 2016 Census of Population data. This measure can be integrated with administrative records and survey data to understand inequalities associated with a low level of education in Canada.