Temporary Foreign Worker Program Labour Market Impact Assessments, 2018-2025

Canada's quarterly and annual Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) statistics from 2018 to 2025, published by Employment and Social Development Canada. The data includes 28 tables covering requested and approved positions, occupations, sectors, program streams, and workers' countries of origin. It is updated quarterly, with the most recent release in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in approved temporary foreign worker positions based on quarterly and annual data.
• Study the distribution of foreign workers by country of origin and employment occupation.
• Compare employer demand across different Temporary Foreign Worker Program streams and sectors.
• Track the outcomes of Labour Market Impact Assessment applications (positive/negative) over time.

Strengths

• Data is updated quarterly with a defined publication schedule, ensuring regular updates.
• Covers eight consecutive years of LMIA data (2018-2025) for longitudinal analysis.
• Includes 28 detailed tables broken down by positions, applications, employers, and the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the Canadian administrative source.

Provenance

Source

Employment and Social Development Canada

Collection Method

Administrative data published by the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

Time Range

2018-2025

Freshness

Updated quarterly; last metadata update was 2026-03-16.

Geography

Canada