Temporary Foreign Worker Program LMIA Statistics, 2024-2025

Quarterly and annual Labour Market Impact Assessment statistics from Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, published by Employment and Social Development Canada. The data includes 28 tables covering requested and approved positions, occupations, sectors, and worker countries of origin from Q1 2024 to Q4 2025. It is updated quarterly within two to three months of the most recent quarter, with annual summaries released each March.

Use Cases

• Analyze labor demand by occupation and sector based on approved TFW positions.
• Track geographic distribution of labor needs based on employment location data.
• Study trends in the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) based on dedicated tables.
• Compare application outcomes (positive/negative LMIAs) by program stream and employer.

Strengths

• Data is updated quarterly with a defined release schedule, ensuring regular updates.
• Includes 28 distinct tables broken down by positions, applications, employers, and the SAWP.
• Linked to separate public lists of employers with positive and negative LMIA decisions.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data cannot be used to calculate the number of foreign workers who enter Canada, as noted in the description.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Employment and Social Development Canada

Collection Method

Administrative data from the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

Time Range

2024 Q1 to 2025 Q4

Freshness

Quarterly; last updated 2026-03-16.

Geography

Canada