Notes

Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 051-0018.

For example, of immigrants aged 18 to 54 who landed in 2000 and who filed a T1 tax return the following year, 7% were residing in Alberta. This was the case for almost 12% of those who landed in 2009. (Custom tabulation from Longitudinal Immigration Data Base.)

The prevalence of intra-provincial mobility within Alberta during the latter half of the 2000s will be available once results from the 2011 National Household Survey are available for analysis.

The option of including a question on place of work is being considered by Statistics Canada as part of the redesign of the Labour Force Survey scheduled for 2016.

An overview of earlier studies carried out on behalf of various municipalities and provincial agencies was presented in Haan and Odynak (2009) as well as at the 2013 Annual Warren Kalbach Population Conference, University of Alberta, March 8, 2013.

In 2011, the Alberta Office of Statistics and Information (AOSI) contracted with the Special Surveys Division of Statistics Canada to conduct a field test using both Drop-off/Mail-back questionnaires and on-site personal interviews to reach transient work populations in the Wood Buffalo/Fort McMurray region. The test demonstrated that the Drop-off/Mail-back option would not produce useable data. Although responses to the personal interviews were acceptable, conducting interviews in the region presented unique logistical challenges, and cost was a deterrent.

See Table 36 in Section 8, "Appendix Tables," for detailed numbers.

In 2002 dollars.

Individuals may have more than one T4 record; i.e., individuals may receive more than one T4 slip.

All individuals with one or more Alberta T4 are included in this group regardless of whether their T4s were matched with a T1FF record or a T1H record.

When province of residence information is missing on the T1FF, the filer’s postal code is used to derive province of residence. If the filer’s postal code is missing, the postal code of co-resident family members is used to derive province of residence.

Estimates of the total number of persons 18 years of age or older out-migrating from Alberta over a similar period ranged from 37,800 to 43,100 between 2004/2005 and 2010/2011 (from July 1 of one year to June 30 of the next) (CANSIM table 051-0012). These estimates include all persons 18 years of age or older regardless of earnings or employment status, while the estimates of out-migration presented in the text above are limited to individuals who had T4 earnings of more than $1,000.

The only exception is 2009, with a difference of almost 15,000 between the base definition (Approach 1) and the most restrictive definition (Approach 3).

Between 2004 and 2007, the inclusion of late tax filers from the T1H file increased the number of inter-provincial employees in Alberta estimated from the T1FF by an average of 8.66% (Base definition). The T1FF estimates of inter-provincial employment for 2008 and 2009 were thus multiplied by 1.0866 to estimate the total inter-provincial employment in Alberta in those years. The ‘late tax filer adjustment’ factors for the more restrictive definitions of inter-provincial employment were 1.0862 and 1.0667.

The number of in-migrants to Alberta is from CANSIM table 051-0018.

The denominator for these percentages includes all Alberta employees with T4 records, including those whose T4s could not be matched to either the T1FF or the T1H file. While included in the denominator, unmatched records cannot be included in the numerator because the province of residence cannot be determined; hence, these percentages are conservative. An alternative strategy is to exclude all unmatched Alberta T4s from the percentage calculation. This leaves the numerator unchanged, but reduces the denominator (i.e., the number of workers in Alberta with T4s) by 2.1% to 3.5%. This approach yields estimates that are 0.1 percentage points to 0.6 percentage points higher than those shown in Table 3. These supplementary estimates are shown in Appendix Table 37.

Unless specified otherwise, the base definition of inter-provincial employees, Alberta resident employees, and T4–T1FF matched data are used throughout the rest of the report.

In Table 9, estimates of the number of inter-provincial employees from each province of residence have not been adjusted for late tax filers or re-assessed files using the T1H. Hence, the estimates are likely to be conservative.

Within the Management and Remediation Services category, the largest shares of inter-provincial employees were employed in Employment Services (e.g., temporary help agencies), Services to Building and Dwellings (e.g., janitorial services), and Investigation and Security Services (e.g., security services and locksmiths).

However, in 2009, men were more likely than women to receive T4 earnings only in Alberta (46.2% and 41%, respectively).

Inter-provincial employees (base definition) in 2007 and/or 2008 are workers who did not work or live in Alberta between 2004 and 2006 and reported at least one year of positive T4 earnings between 2004 and 2006.

Those who are defined as 'other employees' are workers who did not live in Alberta at any time between 2004 and 2008, have positive T4 earnings in 2007 and/or 2008, and reported at least one year of positive T4 earnings between 2004 and 2006.

It is important to note that, methodologically, the total number of inter-provincial employees in the longitudinal analysis cannot add up to the total number of inter-provincial employees in Table 3 in the cross-sectional analysis. Adding up cross-sectional number would mean counting every person present each year.

In cases where a person worked in Alberta in 2005, 2007, and 2008, this means three non-consecutive years of work but only one consecutive year of work from the initial entrance in 2005.

Again, those who eventually moved to Alberta are not included.

Every firm where a worker was employed is counted. If a worker has multiple jobs at different firms, all firms will be included. Calculations are based on the Alberta workforce (T4 only). For this reason, the results are not comparable to the sections where the focus was on workers.

Provincial firm information represents information concerning firms present in Alberta. The information can be about the whole firm (if it is established only in Alberta) or can relate only to the branch level (if the firm is represented in more than one province or territory).

The percentage of firms employing inter-provincial employees is calculated by dividing the number of inter-provincial employees by the total number of workers employed by each firm in Alberta during a given year. Firms are then classified by size according to the categories available on the LEAP file.