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Temporary residents

Canada - Total entries of temporary residents by yearly sub-status

*North American Free Trade Agreement
**Free Trade Agreement
***General Agreement on Trade in Services
****Labour Market Opinion
*****Also includes foreign workers from Guatemala working in agriculture.

Number
Yearly sub-status 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
 NAFTA* 15,110 13,424 11,693 11,525 11,879 13,361 14,082 15,566 14,967 17,469
 Other FTA** 481 385 267 289 309 361 381 529 500 547
 International
 agreements		 2,786 2,840 3,198 4,884 1,470 1,709 2,133 2,704 2,331 1,341
 Provincial
 agreements		 361 1,883
 GATS*** 2,245 1,689 616 502 434 521 636 603 371 357
Workers - International arrangements 20,622 18,338 15,774 17,200 14,092 15,952 17,232 19,402 18,530 21,597
 Reciprocal
 employment		 16,923 19,111 20,953 24,798 31,442 34,202 35,989 44,683 49,001 54,471
 Employment
 benefit		 7,647 7,689 7,927 7,887 8,205 9,999 10,159 10,898 10,099 13,595
 Spouse/common
 law partner		 1,280 2,805 3,497 4,415 5,210 6,339 8,187 9,886 9,289 9,275
 Research and
 studies related		 2,960 3,480 3,386 3,474 3,670 4,037 5,200 6,247 6,667 7,122
 Other Canadian
 interests		 8,461 4,720 1,312 1,136 1,782 1,631 1,491 1,442 1,539 1,810
Workers - Canadian interests 37,271 37,805 37,075 41,710 50,309 56,208 61,026 73,156 76,595 86,273
Other workers without LMO**** 12,875 4,751 1,003 1,079 904 965 1,336 1,195 1,435 1,329
 Information
 technology workers		 901 836 1,056 1,307 1,782 2,152 2,983 3,210 2,691 2,928
 Live-in caregiver
 program		 4,369 4,739 5,085 6,710 7,203 9,338 13,773 12,883 9,824 8,394
 Seasonal
 Agricultural Worker
 Program		 18,509 18,616 18,693 19,050 20,278 21,250 22,575 24,183 23,383 23,898
 Low skill pilot
 program*****		 2,277 2,336 2,796 3,781 6,554 15,365 25,733 19,069 14,893
 Other workers with
 LMO		 25,110 23,499 22,176 22,656 24,313 26,581 30,430 32,418 26,741 22,964
Workers with LMO**** 48,889 49,967 49,346 52,519 57,357 65,875 85,126 98,427 81,708 73,077
Foreign workers 119,657 110,861 103,198 112,508 122,662 139,000 164,720 192,180 178,268 182,276
 Work permits
 without LMO		 1,471 1,329 981 1,177 1,752 2,393 2,909 3,561 4,835 7,030
 Work permits with
 LMO		 81 90 84 101 139 155 197 293 139 159
Students with work permits 1,552 1,419 1,065 1,278 1,891 2,548 3,106 3,854 4,974 7,189
Students without work permit 79,350 75,514 68,640 64,838 65,987 69,241 70,925 75,675 80,204 88,968
Foreign students 80,902 76,933 69,705 66,116 67,878 71,789 74,031 79,529 85,178 96,157
 With work permits 12,338 12,118 13,160 10,889 8,340 9,256 11,017 12,824 15,737 10,096
 Without work
 permit		 32,022 21,205 18,628 14,561 11,332 13,602 17,394 23,969 17,381 13,014
Refugee claimants 44,360 33,323 31,788 25,450 19,672 22,858 28,411 36,793 33,118 23,110
 With work permits 761 1,334 840 727 685 957 1,190 1,158 1,085 1,480
 Without work
 permit		 156 122 70 37 115 33 30 37 30 248
Other humanitarian population 917 1,456 910 764 800 990 1,220 1,195 1,115 1,728
Humanitarian population 45,277 34,779 32,698 26,214 20,472 23,848 29,631 37,988 34,233 24,838
Visitors 82,449 81,446 76,158 78,609 76,023 77,559 79,605 80,669 73,346 72,127
Temporary resident permit holders 2,147 6,366 9,100 10,484 10,757 9,612 9,394 8,837 11,091 8,531
Other 84,596 87,812 85,258 89,093 86,780 87,171 88,999 89,506 84,437 80,658
Total 330,432 310,385 290,859 293,931 297,792 321,808 357,381 399,203 382,116 383,929

*North American Free Trade Agreement
**Free Trade Agreement
***General Agreement on Trade in Services
****Labour Market Opinion
*****Also includes foreign workers from Guatemala working in agriculture.

Percentage
Yearly sub-status 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
 NAFTA* 4.6 4.3 4.0 3.9 4.0 4.2 3.9 3.9 3.9 4.6
 Other FTA** 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
 International
 agreements		 0.8 0.9 1.1 1.7 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.3
 Provincial
 agreements		 0.1 0.5
 GATS*** 0.7 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1
Workers - International arrangements 6.2 5.9 5.4 5.9 4.7 5.0 4.8 4.9 4.8 5.6
 Reciprocal
 employment		 5.1 6.2 7.2 8.4 10.6 10.6 10.1 11.2 12.8 14.2
 Employment
 benefit		 2.3 2.5 2.7 2.7 2.8 3.1 2.8 2.7 2.6 3.5
 Spouse/common
 law partner		 0.4 0.9 1.2 1.5 1.7 2.0 2.3 2.5 2.4 2.4
 Research and
 studies related		 0.9 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.9
 Other Canadian
 interests		 2.6 1.5 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5
Workers - Canadian interests 11.3 12.2 12.7 14.2 16.9 17.5 17.1 18.3 20.0 22.5
Other workers without LMO**** 3.9 1.5 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.3
 Information
 technology workers		 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.8
 Live-in caregiver
 program		 1.3 1.5 1.7 2.3 2.4 2.9 3.9 3.2 2.6 2.2
 Seasonal
 Agricultural Worker
 Program		 5.6 6.0 6.4 6.5 6.8 6.6 6.3 6.1 6.1 6.2
 Low skill pilot
 program*****		 0.7 0.8 1.0 1.3 2.0 4.3 6.4 5.0 3.9
 Other workers with
 LMO		 7.6 7.6 7.6 7.7 8.2 8.3 8.5 8.1 7.0 6.0
Workers with LMO**** 14.8 16.1 17.0 17.9 19.3 20.5 23.8 24.7 21.4 19.0
Foreign workers 36.2 35.7 35.5 38.3 41.2 43.2 46.1 48.1 46.7 47.5
 Work permits
 without LMO		 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.3 1.8
 Work permits with
 LMO		 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
Students with work permits 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.3 1.9
Students without work permit 24.0 24.3 23.6 22.1 22.2 21.5 19.8 19.0 21.0 23.2
Foreign students 24.5 24.8 24.0 22.5 22.8 22.3 20.7 19.9 22.3 25.0
 With work permits 3.7 3.9 4.5 3.7 2.8 2.9 3.1 3.2 4.1 2.6
 Without work
 permit		 9.7 6.8 6.4 5.0 3.8 4.2 4.9 6.0 4.5 3.4
Refugee claimants 13.4 10.7 10.9 8.7 6.6 7.1 7.9 9.2 8.7 6.0
 With work permits 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4
 Without work
 permit		 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
Other humanitarian population 0.3 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.5
Humanitarian population 13.7 11.2 11.2 8.9 6.9 7.4 8.3 9.5 9.0 6.5
Visitors 25.0 26.2 26.2 26.7 25.5 24.1 22.3 20.2 19.2 18.8
Temporary resident permit holders 0.6 2.1 3.1 3.6 3.6 3.0 2.6 2.2 2.9 2.2
Other 25.6 28.3 29.3 30.3 29.1 27.1 24.9 22.4 22.1 21.0
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

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