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FACTSand FIGURES 2001

Immigration Overview

 

IMMIGRATION REPORT CARD, 2001

IMMIGRANTS
PLANNED RANGE
ACTUAL LANDINGS
DIFFERENCE*
LOWER
UPPER
IN 2001
%
Immediate Family
42,000
45,000
45,383
1%
Parents and Grandparents
15,000
16,000
21,261
33%
Total Family
57,000
61,000
66,644
9%
 
Skilled Workers
100,500
113,300
137,085
21%
Business Immigrants
15,000
16,000
14,580
-9%
Provincial/Territorial Nominees
1,400
1,400
1,274
-9%
Total Economic
116,900
130,700
152,939
17%
 
Other**
4,000
4,000
2,828
-29%
Total Other
4,000
4,000
2,828
-29%
Total Immigrants
177,900
195,700
222,411
14%
 
REFUGEES      
 
Government Assisted Refugees
7,300
7,300
8,693
19%
Privately Sponsored Refugees
2,800
4,000
3,570
-11%
Refugees Landed in Canada
10,000
15,000
11,891
-21%
Dependants Abroad***
2,000
3,000
3,740
25%
Total Refugees
22,100
29,300
27,894
-5%
Total Planned
200,000
225,000
250,305
11%
 
Backlog
N/A N/A
41
  
Not stated N/A N/A
0
  
 
Total 200,000 225,000
250,346
  

* Where the planned levels are expressed as ranges, the percentage difference is expressed in terms of the ceiling level of the specified range.

** Other - includes Live-in Caregivers, Post Determination Refugee Claimants, Deferred Removal Orders, Retirees.

*** Dependants (of a refugee landed in Canada) who live abroad.
 
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