Express Entry-Invited Candidates: Monthly Canadian Immigration Updates

Monthly updates from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on qualified individuals invited to apply for permanent residence via the Express Entry system. Data is published by the Canadian government under the OGL-CA-2.0 license. Figures are suppressed or rounded to prevent identification, with values between 0 and 5 shown as '--' and other values rounded to the nearest multiple of 5.

Use Cases

• Analyze monthly trends in Express Entry invitations based on published government updates
• Study the application of privacy-preserving data rounding techniques on immigration statistics
• Monitor the flow of qualified candidates into the permanent residence application pipeline

Strengths

• Data is published by the authoritative government agency Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
• Includes a documented privacy protocol for suppressing and rounding small values
• Available in CSV and XLSX formats for accessibility

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to monthly updates from a single government source

Provenance

Source

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 12:32:09.142789; freshness should be verified

Geography

Canada