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Rates
are based on the average population over the period.
Natural increase is the difference between
the number of births and deaths.
Net international migration basically refers to the number of moves between
Canada and abroad, accompanied by a change in usual place of residence; it
consists of the following components: immigration, emigration, returning emigrants,
net temporary emigration and net non-permanent residents.
The
period covered by the current record keeping system as used at Statistics
Canada starts in July 1971.
Net emigration
is obtained as follows: difference between emigration and returning emigration
to which is added net temporary emigration.
A rate higher than -0.1%
and lower than 0.1% is, for the rest of the analysis, considered being
negligible.
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