Canadian migration destinations of recent immigrants and interprovincial migrants: similarities, differences and explanations

Table 1 Interprovincial migrant and recent immigrant samples age 20–49

Source: Statistics Canada Public-use microdata files 1981–2006
^a Recent immigrants resided outside of Canada 5 years before the Census, were not Canadian born and did not immigrate to Canada more than 5 years ago. Non-permanent residents are also excluded
^b Interprovincial migrants are Canadian born individuals whose province of residence in the Census year differed from their province of residence 5 years before
^c In each case, this is the number in the migrant group as a share of the entire population aged 20–49