Migration: Canadian Interprovincial Migration Data
Description
The Migration data frame has 90 rows and 8 columns.Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- source
-
Province of origin (source).
A factor with levels:
ALTA, Alberta;
BC, British Columbia;
MAN, Manitoba;
NB, New Brunswick;
NFLD, New Foundland;
NS, Nova Scotia;
ONT, Ontario;
PEI, Prince Edward Island;
QUE, Quebec;
SASK, Saskatchewan.
- destination
-
Province of destination (1971 residence).
A factor with levels:
ALTA, Alberta;
BC, British Columbia;
MAN, Manitoba;
NB, New Brunswick;
NFLD, New Foundland;
NS, Nova Scotia;
ONT, Ontario;
PEI, Prince Edward Island;
QUE, Quebec;
SASK, Saskatchewan.
- migrants
-
Number of migrants (from source to destination) in the
period 1966--1971.
- distance
-
Distance (between principal cities of provinces):
NFLD, St. John;
PEI, Charlottetown;
NS, Halifax;
NB, Fredricton;
QUE, Montreal;
ONT, Toronto;
MAN, Winnipeg;
SASK, Regina;
ALTA, Edmonton;
BC, Vancouver.
- pops66
-
1966 population of source province.
- pops71
-
1971 population of source province.
- popd66
-
1966 population of destination province.
- popd71
-
1971 population of destination province.
Source
Canada (1962)
Map. Department of Mines and Technical Surveys. Canada (1971)
Census of Canada.
Statistics Canada,
Vol. 1, Part 2 [Table 32]. Canada (1972)
Canada Year Book. Statistics Canada [p. 1369].Details
There is one record in the data file for each migration stream. You can average the 1966
and 1971 population figures for each of the source and destination
provinces.
References
Fox, J. (2008)
Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models,
Second Edition. Sage.