Monthly Updates on Canadian Temporary to Permanent Resident Status Transitions

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada publishes monthly data on people granted permanent resident status who previously held temporary resident status. Values are suppressed or rounded to prevent identification; figures between 0 and 5 are shown as '--' and other values are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5. The dataset is updated monthly and is available under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in permanent residency acquisition based on prior temporary status
• Tracking monthly changes in immigration status transitions
• Assessing the impact of rounding and suppression on statistical totals

Strengths

• Data is published monthly, providing regular updates
• Suppression and rounding protocols are explicitly documented to protect privacy

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Rounding and suppression may cause reported totals to not match summed components

Provenance

Source

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 12:32:17.386984

Geography

Canada