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Population 5 years and over by mobility status, by census metropolitan areas (2001 Census)

Definitions
Mobility Status—Place of Residence 5 Years Ago: Refers to the relationship between a person’s usual place of residence on Census Day and his or her usual place of residence five years earlier.

Non-Movers: Persons who on Census Day were living at the same address they lived at five years earlier.

Movers: Persons who on Census Day were living at a different address than the one they lived at five years earlier.

Movers are further categorized as:

Non-migrants: Persons who were living at a different address but in the same census subdivision (CSD).

Migrants: Persons who were living in a different CSD (internal migrants) or outside the country (external migrants).

Census metropolitan areas: Area consisting of one or more adjacent municipalities situated around a major urban core. To form a census metropolitan area, the urban core must have a population of at least 100,000.

View definitions for 2001 Census Metropolitan Areas:  St. John's ,  Halifax ,  Saint John ,  Saguenay ,  Québec ,  Sherbrooke ,  Trois-Rivières ,  Montréal ,  Ottawa–Gatineau Ontario–Quebec ,  Ottawa–Gatineau (Quebec part) ,  Ottawa–Gatineau (Ontario part) ,  Kingston ,  Oshawa ,  Toronto ,  Hamilton ,  St. Catharines–Niagara ,  Kitchener ,  London ,  Windsor ,  Sudbury,  Thunder Bay ,  Winnipeg ,  Regina ,  Saskatoon ,  Calgary ,  Edmonton ,  Abbotsford ,  Vancouver ,  Victoria

 



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