Mobility 5 - Census metropolitan area or census agglomeration of residence 5 years ago

Part A - Short definition:

City with a population of 100,000 or more inhabitants (census metropolitan area) or city with a population of 10,000 to 99,999 inhabitants (census agglomeration) where the enumerated person lived on May 10, 2006, five years before the reference day, May 10, 2011.

Part B - Detailed definition:

Refers to the census metropolitan area (CMA), census agglomeration (CA) or non-CMA/CA where the person usually resided on May 10, 2006, five years prior to the reference day, May 10, 2011. This concept applies to the Mobility status (5 years ago) subuniverse only.

Reported in:

2011

Reported for:

Population aged 5 years and over residing in Canada, in private households

Question number(s):

Derived variable: Question 24

Responses:

Not applicable

Remarks:

This is a derived variable which provides a CMA/CA code for persons whose census subdivision (CSD) of residence five years ago is a CMA/CA component, or a value of zero (0) if it is not. For information on the linkage of CMA/CA names to codes and CSD components, refer to the Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) 2011, Volume I, Catalogue no. 12-571-X.

As with census subdivisions (CSDs) and census divisions (CDs), the CMA/CA of residence 5 years ago reflects the 2011 Census boundaries.

Migrants whose CSD of residence five years ago is within the same CMA/CA as the current CSD (based on 2011 Census boundaries) are classified as intra-CMA/CA migrants. Migrants whose current CSD of residence (on May 10, 2011) is in a different CMA/CA of residence from that of five years ago are classified as inter-CMA/CA migrants. Persons who resided in a CMA/CA five years ago (on May 10, 2006) with a current residence elsewhere (in a different CMA/CA or outside a CMA/CA) in Canada (on May 10, 2011) are out-migrants from that CMA/CA. Persons whose current residence is within a CMA/CA (on May 10, 2011) with a place of residence five years ago elsewhere in Canada (in a CMA/CA or outside a CMA/CA) are in-migrants to that CMA/CA.

For the corresponding current CMA/CA of residence and a definition of CMA/CA, refer to the variable Census metropolitan area (CMA) and census agglomeration (CA) in the section on geography in the 2011 Census Dictionary, Catalogue no. 98-301-X.

See also 'Remarks' under Mobility 5 - Mobility status – Place of residence 5 years ago and Figure 2.2.

Figure 2.2 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) mobility variables