Nova Scotia Nominee Program: Annual Nominees by Occupation

Nova Scotia's Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration issues nomination certificates to prospective immigrants under the Nova Scotia Nominee Program. This dataset provides annual counts of nominees, classified by National Occupational Classification (NOC) code, category, and occupational group, with a transition from NOC 2016 to NOC 2021 standards in 2023. It tracks the distribution of immigration nominations across skilled occupations to meet provincial labor market needs.

Use Cases

• Tracking annual nomination trends by occupation using the Year and Nominees columns.
• Analyzing the distribution of nominees across skill levels and TEER categories using the NOC Category column.
• Mapping specific occupational groups, such as 'Financial auditors and accountants', to nomination volumes using the Occupational Group and NOC Code columns.
• Comparing pre- and post-2023 occupational classification data using NOC Code (4-digit vs. 5-digit).

Strengths

• Provides detailed occupational breakdown using Canada's National Occupational Classification system, which comprises over 40,000 job titles in 516 unit groups.
• Captures a significant classification transition, containing both NOC 2016 (4-digit) and NOC 2021 (5-digit) codes for the year 2023.
• Available on multiple government platforms (Socrata and Open Canada), indicating official provenance and reliability.

Limitations

• Key metadata is inconsistent or missing across sources: row count, dataset size, and author are unknown.
• The most recent update date conflicts between sources, with one showing 2026-04 17 and another showing 2025-03-05.
• The description is repeated verbatim across platforms, suggesting potential documentation gaps beyond the provided text.

Provenance

Source

Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration (LSI), Government of Nova Scotia.

Collection Method

Administrative data from the Nova Scotia Nominee Program.

Time Range

Annual data, with years prior to and including the transitional year 2023.

Freshness

2026-04-17 15:33:00.594650

Geography

Nova Scotia, Canada.