In response to the importance of internal migration issues, the Population Estimates Program at Statistics Canada has been producing migration estimates using administrative sources of data. As such, there are two versions of migration estimates: preliminary and final, based on the monthly Child Tax Benefit file and the annual income tax return file respectively. The preliminary estimates of migration differ from the final estimates in that a diferent time frame is used to define a move. The objectives of this report are: to describe the discrepancies between the final & preliminary estimates; and to introduce & describe six approaches to decrease the discrepancies using the regression method, simple time series analysis, and the United States Bureau of Census method. Results of calculations are presented based on evidence from 1994/5 to 2000/01 to illustrate the best approach to achieve improved convergence between the final & preliminary migration estimates.
Using an employer-employee matched dataset of administrative tax records on most Canadian firms and the full populations of their workers, this paper documents relationships between firm size, industry, and the typical ages of firms' workforces. In particular, the paper considers both differences in levels for the calendar years 2003 to 2010 inclusive, as well as changes in the age composition of firms' workforces over this time as observed in a longitudinal analysis. The results indicate that there is substantial heterogeneity in the ages of firms' workforces across both firm size and industry. In addition, the extent to which the age composition of firms' workforces changed over time is strongly correlated with the size of firms, where smaller firms saw the largest increases in age composition. The implications of these findings for Canadian research and policy are briefly discussed"--Abstract.
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