Immigration Data Portal | The Community Data Program

Data

The catalogue of data products, infographics and dashboards accessible to Immigration Sector Network members is available here.

Membership

If your LIP is already a full member of the CDP, you can register a new account here. Once your account is activated, you can start looking for data here.

If your LIP is not a member of the CDP but would like to join a data consortium in your local community, learn how to become a member here.

If your LIP cannot join a data consortium or there isn’t one in your community, it can join the CDP's Immigration Sector Network:

First, register your LIP here.
Under "Consortium," please select "Immigration Sector Network."
Once your organization's registration has been approved, you can register a user account here.

Users may download products from the catalogue only once their user account has been activated.

Guides

For more information, please refer to these step-by-step guides:

A video orientation for the Immigration Data Portal is available here: https://youtu.be/SnkgRLrGisc

For an orientation of the Beyond 20/20 software, skip ahead to the 30-minute mark of this orientation: https://communitydata.ca/resources/webinars/orientation-aug-16

You can also contact information@communitydata.ca if you have any questions about the data or this data portal.

Webinars

December 5, 2024: IMDB, Housing, Permanent and Temporary Resident Data for Local Immigration Partnerships (LIPs)
July 27, 2023: Immigration Data Portal: Orientation to ICARE, IMDB and 2021 Census Data Tables, Dashboards and Infographics
November 9, 2022: How to effectively use Core and ICARE IMDB Tables
September 27, 2022: What can I do with the Longitudinal Immigration Database [IMDB]?
March 9, 2022: National LIP Secretariat Webinar on Community Data Program, Data Access and Visualization
June 25, 2020: Resources for the Local Immigration Partnership Portal

See the full list of upcoming and past webinars here. Recordings are available for most past webinars.

Infographics and Dashboards

Longitudinal Immigration Database Dashboard, 2015-2021

The Longitudinal Immigration Database Dashboard presents data from IMDB tables 1-10 in a series of interactive charts. The charts compare data on immigrant taxfiler mobility and income with admission categories, world areas of birth, known languages, citizenship status, pre-admission experience, age, and gender covering the tax years 2015 to 2021.

An instructional video for the Longitudinal Immigration Database Dashboard, 2015-2021 is available here.

Click here to download this dashboard from the catalogue.

Immigration Profile Dashboard, 2021

The Immigration Profile Dashboard, 2021 displays a profile of the immigrant population in a selected community, using data from the 2021 Census. The dashboard provides an overview of immigration and looks at demographics, language, education, employment and income for the immigrant and recent immigrant populations.

The data in this dashboard covers all of Canada at the following levels of geography: Canada, Provinces and Territories (PR), Census Divisions (CD), Census Subdivisions (CSD), and Local Immigration Partnership (LIP) boundaries.

Click here to download this dashboard from the catalogue.

Longitudinal Immigration Database ICARE Dashboard, 2012-2019

The Longitudinal Immigration Database ICARE Dashboard presents data from the IMDB ICARE tables T1 and T2 in a series of interactive charts. Data on immigrant taxfiler mobility and economic outcomes are compared with settlement service delivery, admission categories and world areas of birth. The dashboard includes time series showing data on immigrant taxfiler landing groups over time, and charts showing data for individual tax years.

An instructional video for the Longitudinal Immigration Database ICARE Dashboard, 2012-2019 is available here.

Click here to download this dashboard from the catalogue.

Census Profile 2021: Immigration, Mobility, Ethnocultural and Religious Diversity Dashboard

The 2021 Census Profile: Immigration, Mobility, Ethnocultural and Religious Diversity Dashboard displays data from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census Profile on the topics of immigration, place of birth, mobility, and ethnocultural and religious diversity. This dashboard allows users to view 2021 Census indicators in an interactive map and generate detailed profiles of individual geographies.

Click here to download this dashboard from the catalogue.

Mobility In and Out of Local Immigration Partnerships Dashboard

The Mobility In and Out of Local Immigration Partnerships Dashboard visualizes immigrant mobility data for custom LIP geographies using the Longitudinal Immigration Database [IMDB].

This dashboard allows you to compare mobility indicators by immigration admission category, admission year (or landing year), tax year, age and gender of immigrant taxfilers

Click here to download this dashboard from the catalogue.

Profile: All Immigrants, 2016

This interactive Tableau dashboard allows you to view a selection of census variables for the immigrant population at a geography of your choice.

Click here to download this dashboard from the catalogue.

Profile: Recent Immigrants, 2016

This interactive Tableau dashboard allows you to view a selection of census variables for the recent immigrant (period of immigration 2011-2016) population at a geography of your choice.

Click here to download this dashboard from the catalogue.

To open these dashboards, you will need Tableau Reader installed on your computer. Tableau Reader can be downloaded here.