Question:
Looking for some advice from the group here. I have a research team who is looking for data on money sent to other countries as gifts, ideally at the individual level but aggregated would be okay. Immigration and/or citizenship status is critical here
The SHS has a question on this, with its variable (MC_Q020) in the master file but also grouped into MG001 in the PUMF. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like immigration status/place-of-birth/citizenship is asked within the SHS. (Please correct me if I’m wrong, though!)
Can anyone suggest a potential way forward for the researcher via an existing alternate dataset? The 2013 GSS (Giving) has the socioeconomic variables but no variables on giving to people/org’s outside of Canada itself.
Answer:
This is an interesting report published by Statistics Canada. Study on International Money Transfers. There are information about remittances as gifts, as percentages, broken down by region and countries.
URL : https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-657-x/89-657-x2019007-eng.pdf
