Abstract #301054

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301054
Activity Number: 322
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics
Abstract - #301054
Title: Characteristics of U.S.-Canada Migrants: Results from the 2000 and 2001 Censuses
Author(s): Marie-France Germain*+ and Eric Caron-Malenfant and Cynthia J. Davis
Companies: Statistics Canada and Statistics Canada and U.S. Census Bureau
Address: Demography Division, Ottawa, ON, K1A OT6, Canada
Keywords: Canadian Census ; American Census ; North-American migration ; brain drain
Abstract:

Migration between the United States and Canada is not a recent phenomenon. However, in the past few years, there was a debate on the "brain drain" of Canadian emigrants to the United States, especially those working in knowledge-based occupations. In terms of numbers, these exchanges of human capital have been to the benefit of the United States. In this context, it is interesting to compare the two migrant populations, i.e., the Canadians in the United States and the Americans in Canada, using the most recent rounds of census data to examine the magnitude, direction, timing and selected socio-economic characteristics (for example, age, year of entry, education, occupation and industry). However, with the census databases, only Canadians by birth living in the U.S. and Americans by birth living in Canada will be studied, as both censuses do not collect information on country of last permanent residence of migrants. Consequently, foreign-born Canadians (i.e., former immigrants to Canada) who later moved to the United States will be excluded from the analysis, as will be foreign-born Americans who moved to Canada.

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