Year of immigration of immigrant

Status: This standard was approved as a departmental standard on February 15, 2016.

Definition

Year of immigration refers to the year in which the immigrant first obtained landed immigrant or permanent resident status.

Immigrant refers to a person who is, or who has ever been, a landed immigrant or permanent resident. Such a person has been granted the right to live in Canada permanently by immigration authorities. Immigrants who have obtained Canadian citizenship by naturalization are included in this group.

Conformity to relevant internationally recognized standards

There are no relevant internationally recognized standards. Though the United Nations' "Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Revision 3", 2017 discusses the desirability of collecting information on international migration and specifically the length of time immigrants have been in the country, it recommends using year of arrival. Similarly, the "Conference of European Statisticians Recommendations for the 2020 Censuses of Population and Housing", 2015, also suggests using year of arrival.

Measurements

• 'Calendar year' is expressed in single years, from the earliest year on the file to the reference year.
  
  Note: Single years can be collapsed to form larger categories, typically of five or ten years. February 15, 2016 to current

Classifications

• Periods of Immigration, Aggregating Before 1980 January 01, 2022 to current
• Classification of Periods of Immigration, Aggregating Before 1992 July 12, 2016 to current

Additional information

To create periods of immigration for analytic purposes, single years of immigration can be collapsed to form larger categories, typically of five or ten years.

See:

• Citizenship of person
• Immigrant status of person
• Place of birth of person

Relation to previous version

• Year of immigration of immigrant February 15, 2016 to current

  This standard has been updated by revising the definition of immigrant as well as the Measurement note.

• Year of immigration of immigrant April 18, 2011 to February 14, 2016

  This reformats and replaces the earlier standard 'Year or period of immigration' and is compatible with it.

• Year or period of immigration July 15, 1998 to April 17, 2011

  This was the departmental standard from July 15, 1998 to April 17, 2011.

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