Note: [1] Dr. Long is the chief of the Population Projections Branch of the U.S. Bureau of the Census. In that capacity, he is responsible for the national estimates and national and state projections. He received his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of North Carolina. His research interests include internal and international migration and population projections methodology.
Note: [2] Revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Chicago, April 29–May 2, 1987.
Note: [3] This paper is drawn from the results of a joint study [15] by Statistics Canada and the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Authors of the full study are John F. Long and Campbell Gibson of the U.S. Bureau of the Census and Edward T. Pryor, M.V. George, Nancy McLaughlin, Gilles Montigny, Douglas A. Norris, and Ravi B.P. Verma of Statistics Canada. References to appendix tables refer to this report.
Note: [4] Dr. Pryor is currently Director General, Census and Demographic Statistics Branch, Statistics Canada, and is responsible for the management of the Census of Canada. From 1968 to 1972, he was Chairman, Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario as well as Advisor and consultant to the Census of Canada. Dr. Pryor joined Statistics Canada in 1973 and has held a variety of management positions during that time. He holds a Doctorate in Sociology and Demography from Brown University (Providence Rhode Island).
Abstract: A joint study by Statistics Canada and the U.S. Bureau of the Census examines special tabulations of U.S. residents born in Canada from the 1980 census of the United States and compares them with matching tabulations of Canadian residents born in the United States from the 1981 census of Canada. As might be expected, the two populations are remarkably similar and the preponderance of the migration flow is from Canada to the United States. The comparative social and economic characteristics of the two migrant stocks show the effects of increasing legal restrictions on migration between the two countries in the last two decades. The characteristics of the migrant flows have changed from large, unregulated population movements responding to economic motivations similar to internal migration flows to a much smaller, highly controlled movement more typical of long-distance international migration flows. The conduct of the study, moreover, provides a model for bilateral efforts to obtain reliable emigration data for nations lacking comprehensive emigration registration systems.
