Variable: Nativity Status (29)


Definition 1:
Landed Immigrant Status
Part A - Plain Language Definition
Not applicable
Part B - Detailed Definition
Refers to people who have been granted the right to live in Canada permanently by immigration authorities.

Stubset:

1.    Total - Nativity status
    2.    Non-permanent residents
    3.    Non-immigrants
        4.    Total - Place of birth of respondent - Immigrants
        5.    North America - Immigrants
            6.    United States - Immigrants
        7.    Central America - Immigrants
        8.    South America - Immigrants
        9.    Caribbean and Bermuda - Immigrants
            10.  Haiti - Immigrants
            11.  Jamaica - Immigrants
        12.  Western Europe - Immigrants
            13.  France - Immigrants
        14.  Northern Europe - Immigrants
            15.  United Kingdom - Immigrants
        16.  Eastern Europe - Immigrants
        17.    Southern Europe - Immigrants*1
            18.  Italy - Immigrants
        19.  Northern Africa - Immigrants*2
            20.  Mahgreb - Immigrants*3
        21.  Africa, other - Immigrants
        22.  West Central Asia and the Middle East - Immigrants
        23.  Eastern Asia - Immigrants
            24.  China and Special Administrative Regions + Taiwan - Immigrants
        25.  South-East Asia - Immigrants
        26.  Southern Asia - Immigrants
            27.  India - Immigrants
        28.  Oceania - Immigrants
        29.  Canada and other - Immigrants*4

*1 Cyprus, which in censuses prior to 1996 and 2001 was grouped under the heading "Southern Europe", is now included in West Central Asia and the Middle East.
*2 Includes Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia
*3 Includes Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
*4 Includes a small number of immigrants who were born in Canada, as well as other places of birth not classified elsewhere.