Factsheet: National Data on Immigrants: An Overview

Highlights

• Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) collects data on immigrants when they land in Canada and, for temporary residents, CIC collects data when the individual enters Canada.
• Statistics Canada collects data on censuses and surveys that are reported by individuals.
• In recent years, a number of datasets have been assembled by linking data from more than one source. One database, the Longitudinal Immigrant Database (IMDB) matches the information reported by immigrants when they land with their annual taxfiler data in each year after their admission to Canada