Temporary Foreign Worker Program Labour Market Impact Assessment Statistics 2025Q1-2026Q1
Overview: Each quarter, the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) publishes Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) statistics on Open Government Data Portal, including quarterly and annual LMIA data related to, but not limited to, requested and approved TFW positions, employment location, employment occupations, sectors, TFWP stream and temporary foreign workers by country of origin. The TFWP does not collect data on the number of TFWs who are hired by an employer and have arrived in Canada. The decision to issue a work permit rests with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and not all positions on a positive LMIA result in a work permit. For these reasons, data provided in the LMIA statistics cannot be used to calculate the number of TFWs that have entered or will enter Canada. IRCC publishes annual statistics on the number of foreign workers who are issued a work permit: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/360024f2-17e9-4558-bfc1-3616485d65b9. Please note that all quarterly tables have been updated to NOC 2021 (5 digit and training, education, experience and responsibilities (TEER) based). As such, Table 5, 8, 17, and 24 will no longer be updated but will…
- Publisher
- Employment and Social Development Canada
- Resources
- 58
- Catalogue metadata updated
- 2026-07-22
Data overview
- Formats
- CSV, DOCX, XLSX
- File languages
- English, French
- Available actions
- 7 queryable resources · 49 loadable resources
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- Table 25-Number of Positive and Negative Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIAs) under the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) by Location of Employment between 2025Q1 and 2026Q1 (French, XLSX) XLSX
- Table 25-Number of Positive and Negative Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIAs) under the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) by Location of Employment between 2025Q1 and 2026Q1 (English, XLSX) XLSX
- Table 26-Number of Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Positions on Positive and Negative Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIAs) under the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) by Location of Employment between 2025Q1 and 2026Q1 (French, XLSX) XLSX
- Table 26-Number of Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Positions on Positive and Negative Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIAs) under the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) by Location of Employment between 2025Q1 and 2026Q1 (English, XLSX) XLSX
- Table 27-Number of Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Positions on Positive and Negative Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIAs) under the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) by National Occupational Classification - 2021 (NOC) between 2025Q1 and 2026Q1 (English, XLSX) XLSX
- Table 27-Number of Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Positions on Positive and Negative Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIAs) under the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) by National Occupational Classification - 2021 (NOC) between 2025Q1 and 2026Q1 (French, XLSX) XLSX
- Glossary (English, DOCX) DOCX
- Glossary (French, DOCX) DOCX