R: Canadian Interprovincial Migration Data

Migration {car} | R Documentation

## Canadian Interprovincial Migration Data

### Description

The `Migration` data frame has 90 rows and 8 columns.

### Usage

    Migration

### 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.

### 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.

### 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].

### References

Fox, J. (2008) Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition. Sage.

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