More information on Year of immigration

Censuses:

2006 (1/5 sample), 2001 (1/5 sample), 1996 (1/5 sample), 1991 (1/5 sample), 1986 (1/5 sample), 1981 (1/5 sample)

Reported for:

Persons who are, or have been, landed immigrants, excluding institutional residents

Question number:

Direct variable: Question 12

Responses:

Single years from 1885 to 2006 (includes January to Census Day, May 16, 2006)

Remarks:

Respondents who answered 'Yes' to the landed immigrant status question (Question 11) were to answer the year of immigration question (Question 12) by reporting the year in which they first obtained landed immigrant status. People who immigrated to Canada more than once were to report the year in which they first received landed immigrant status.

Respondents who answered 'No' to Question 11 will not have gone through the immigration process, and, thus, do not have a year when landed immigrant status was obtained. These people include Canadian citizens by birth and non-permanent residents (people from another country who have a Study or Work Permit, or who were refugee claimants at the time of the census, and family members living here with them).

Year of immigration data are available since the 1981 Census. The 1971 Census and earlier censuses had only periods of immigration, i.e, ranges of years.

For further information on the immigrant population, refer to Figures 5A and 5B.