Permanent residents by province and immigration category, monthly

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Monthly admissions of permanent residents to Canada by province/territory of intended destination and immigration category (main category / group / component), January 2015 to the latest published month. Includes year-over-year change, trailing 12-month totals, and each cell's share of national admissions. Source: IRCC monthly open-data updates.

Source: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Rows: 20,610
Columns: 16
Source cadence: Monthly
Last refreshed: Sep 27, 2026
Theme: demographics

Column	Type	Description
date	string	Month the admissions were recorded, as the first day of the month (YYYY-MM-DD), built from IRCC's EN_YEAR and EN_MONTH columns.
year	integer	Calendar year of the admissions month (IRCC column EN_YEAR).
quarter	string	Calendar quarter of the admissions month (IRCC column EN_QUARTER: Q1..Q4).
month	integer	Calendar month number 1-12, mapped from IRCC's EN_MONTH abbreviations (Jan..Dec).
country	string	Destination country; always Canada for this dataset.
country_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code of the destination country; always CAN.
province	string	Province or territory of intended destination (IRCC column EN_PROVINCE_TERRITORY). Includes 'Province/Territory not stated' for records without a stated destination.
main_category	string	Top level of IRCC's immigration-category hierarchy (IRCC column EN_IMMIGRATION_CATEGORY-MAIN_CATEGORY): Economic, Sponsored Family, Resettled Refugee & Protected Person in Canada, All Other Immigration.
category_group	string	Second level of the immigration-category hierarchy (IRCC column EN_IMMIGRATION_CATEGORY-GROUP), e.g. Worker Program, Provincial Nominee Program.
category_component	string	Finest level of the immigration-category hierarchy (IRCC column EN_IMMIGRATION_CATEGORY-COMPONENT), e.g. Skilled Worker, Sponsored Spouse or Partner.
admissions	integer	Number of permanent residents admitted in the month for this cell, as published by IRCC (rounded for disclosure control; see caveats). Null when IRCC suppressed the small count ('--').
suppressed	boolean	True when IRCC withheld the count for this cell ('--' in the source); admissions is null in that case.
admissions_yoy_pct	float	Year-over-year percent change of admissions vs the same month one year earlier for this cell. Null when either side is suppressed or the base is zero.
admissions_ttm	integer	Trailing 12-month sum of admissions for this cell. Null when any month in the window is suppressed (never a partial sum).
share_of_canada_pct	float	This cell's share of total Canadian permanent-resident admissions in the month, in percent.
row_hash	string	Deterministic 16-hex content hash over the grain fields, date, admissions and suppressed flag; used for idempotent snapshots.

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

date	year	quarter	month	country	country_code	province	main_category	category_group	category_component	admissions	suppressed	admissions_yoy_pct	admissions_ttm	share_of_canada_pct	row_hash
2015-01-01	2,015	Q1	1	Canada	CAN	Alberta	All Other Immigration	Humanitarian & Compassionate	Humanitarian & Compassionate	60	false	—	—	0.47	70a49e5cdc5b84bd
2015-02-01	2,015	Q1	2	Canada	CAN	Alberta	All Other Immigration	Humanitarian & Compassionate	Humanitarian & Compassionate	35	false	—	—	0.21	1bc3e1f451e96880
2015-03-01	2,015	Q1	3	Canada	CAN	Alberta	All Other Immigration	Humanitarian & Compassionate	Humanitarian & Compassionate	35	false	—	—	0.16	e82d6cf7100fd517
2015-04-01	2,015	Q2	4	Canada	CAN	Alberta	All Other Immigration	Humanitarian & Compassionate	Humanitarian & Compassionate	45	false	—	—	0.21	2b7d7d031d826633
2015-05-01	2,015	Q2	5	Canada	CAN	Alberta	All Other Immigration	Humanitarian & Compassionate	Humanitarian & Compassionate	40	false	—	—	0.17	bc7eda81550e4441
2015-06-01	2,015	Q2	6	Canada	CAN	Alberta	All Other Immigration	Humanitarian & Compassionate	Humanitarian & Compassionate	35	false	—	—	0.13	9dd4769a1481ce85
2015-07-01	2,015	Q3	7	Canada	CAN	Alberta	All Other Immigration	Humanitarian & Compassionate	Humanitarian & Compassionate	45	false	—	—	0.16	543cc7b26b23bc50
2015-08-01	2,015	Q3	8	Canada	CAN	Alberta	All Other Immigration	Humanitarian & Compassionate	Humanitarian & Compassionate	30	false	—	—	0.12	1b1b46f4bd6b2358
2015-09-01	2,015	Q3	9	Canada	CAN	Alberta	All Other Immigration	Humanitarian & Compassionate	Humanitarian & Compassionate	80	false	—	—	0.3	7963ad5061c8c6dd
2015-10-01	2,015	Q4	10	Canada	CAN	Alberta	All Other Immigration	Humanitarian & Compassionate	Humanitarian & Compassionate	80	false	—	—	0.33	5b1c16bacde08f9e

Profiled Sep 27, 2026 from snapshot 20260927T042649Z-aaa7659d229b

Measured

Completeness: 91.5%
Rows: 20,610
Columns: 16
Columns with gaps: 4

Rows per yeardate · 2015–2026 · 12 years

20152026

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
datevarchar	0%	115	—	2024-08-01179 2024-06-01176 2023-05-01175
yearbigint	0%	13	2,015 → 2,026median 2,021
quartervarchar	0%	4	—	Q15,312 Q25,310 Q35,095
monthbigint	0%	13	1 → 12median 6
countryvarchar	0%	1	—	Canada20,610
country_codevarchar	0%	1	—	CAN20,610
provincevarchar	0%	15	—	Ontario2,678 British Columbia2,521 Alberta2,340
main_categoryvarchar	0%	4	—	Economic8,990 Sponsored Family5,123 Resettled Refugee & Protected Person in Canada5,115
category_groupvarchar	0%	11	—	Worker Program5,557 Sponsored Family5,123 Resettled Refugee3,106
category_componentvarchar	0%	30	—	Sponsored Spouse or Partner1,743 Provincial Nominee Program1,522 Skilled Worker1,442
admissionsbigint	23.5%	658	5 → 11,300median 55	157 outside 1st–99th percentile
suppressedboolean	0%	2	—	false15,768 true4,842
admissions_yoy_pctdouble	38.6%	3,661	-99.1 → 16,300median 0	246 outside 1st–99th percentile
admissions_ttmbigint	49.9%	3,143	95 → 88,570median 1,460	200 outside 1st–99th percentile
share_of_canada_pctdouble	23.5%	843	0.01 → 31.6median 0.18	157 outside 1st–99th percentile
row_hashvarchar	0%	20,074	—	000963ef60166bd01 000a0bcaa247989c1 000bf2e50152184e1

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ircc_permanent_residents/pr_by_province_category_monthly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ircc_permanent_residents/pr_by_province_category_monthly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ircc_permanent_residents/pr_by_province_category_monthly

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Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. (2026). Permanent residents by province and immigration category, monthly [Data set, snapshot 20260927T042649Z-aaa7659d229b, sha256 aaa7659d229b]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-27, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/ircc_permanent_residents/pr_by_province_category_monthly?snapshot=20260927T042649Z-aaa7659d229b

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@misc{dz_ircc_permanent_residents_pr_by_province__aaa7659d,
  title        = {{Permanent residents by province and immigration category, monthly}},
  author       = {{Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/ircc_permanent_residents/pr_by_province_category_monthly?snapshot=20260927T042649Z-aaa7659d229b}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20260927T042649Z-aaa7659d229b, sha256 aaa7659d229b6a2ef96631763128294f1b991a6096b3803c4dd7a207ac0c07f5; accessed 2026-09-27}
}

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