Updated methodology to estimate interjurisdictional employees

Interjurisdictional employees (IJEs) are individuals who work in other regions while maintaining their primary residence in their home province or territory. The concept of IJEs was previously termed “interprovincial employees,” and several studies have examined interprovincial paid employment in Canada (for example, Morissette and Qiu, 2015; Laporte and Lu, 2013; Laporte, Lu, and Schellenberg, 2013). Since 2021, the Social Analysis and Modelling Division at Statistics Canada has released annual IJE estimates using data from the Canadian Employer–Employee Dynamics Database via the Common Output Data Repository (CODR).Note This article describes an updated methodology to estimate IJEs and compares the previous and new methodologies using the IJE estimates from 2002 to 2020.Note The updated methodology ensures that the number of IJEs sent by a given province or territory to all other jurisdictions is the same as the number of IJEs received from that province or territory by all other jurisdictions. The methods section below first defines IJEs and then compares both methodologies for IJE annual production. The numbers of IJEs from 2002 to 2020 produced by the previous and new methodologies are also provided in charts to show the impact of the revision.