Previous standard - Immigration

Status

This standard was replaced by a new departmental standard on April 18, 2011.

Definition

Immigration concerns the movement of nationals of any given country to another country for the purpose of settlement. It applies to a person who has been granted the right to permanently live in Canada by immigration authorities. It usually applies to persons born outside Canada but may also apply to a small number of persons born inside Canada to parents who are foreign nationals. Similarly, some small number of persons who are Canadian by birth have been born outside Canada to Canadian parents. Once a person has been accorded immigrant status it becomes a life-long attribute as long as the person lives in Canada. Therefore, immigrants are often further classified by period of immigration in order to distinguish between recent immigrants and earlier immigrants.

Variables

• Age at immigration
• Year or period of immigration

Age at immigration

Age at immigration refers to the age at which a person first obtained landed immigrant status. A landed immigrant is a person who has been granted the right to live in Canada by immigration authorities.

Classification(s)

Year or period of immigration

Year or period of immigration refers to a person who is a landed immigrant by the period of time in which he or she first obtained landed immigrant status. A landed immigrant is a person who has been granted the right to live in Canada by immigration authorities.

Note: since the Census is a major source of immigration data, ten or five year periods should be referenced to census years, that is years ending in one or six (as in 1996). Periods of immigration shown will, of course, change over time reflecting the most recent periods of observation.

Classification(s)