Resettled Refugees in Canada: Monthly IRCC Updates

Canada's Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada provides archived monthly data on resettled refugees who arrived through the Government of Canada's Refugee and Humanitarian Resettlement Program. The dataset includes individuals who have received settlement services, with figures suppressed or rounded to protect privacy. This dataset is no longer being updated.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in refugee resettlement volumes based on the monthly update structure mentioned in the description
• Study the demographic or geographic distribution of resettled refugees who received settlement services
• Assess the implementation of privacy protection measures like data suppression and rounding
• Conduct longitudinal research on refugee integration using the historical monthly data

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative government agency Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
• Includes explicit privacy protection measures where values 0-5 are suppressed and others are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5
• Covers resettled refugees who have received settlement services, indicating a specific population segment

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data is archived and will not be updated, limiting analysis to historical periods

Provenance

Source

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada | Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada

Collection Method

Administrative data from the Government of Canada's Refugee and Humanitarian Resettlement Program

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-14 17:41:12.075114; freshness should be verified

Geography

Canada