Citizenship statistics 2020: How the complete shutdown looks
2020/07/20 Leave a comment
With open data now having posted the 2020 numbers, we have comparable data across all IRCC programs regarding the impact of COVID-19. The data reflects the complete shut down of citizenship ceremonies (save for a few online).
Having this baseline data will allow for analysis of how quickly the program recovers.
Unfortunately, open data does not publish citizenship applications (unlike virtually all other programs, so we only have a partial picture). Annoyingly, the IRCC country of birth listing is different from the other programs’ country of citizenship listing, making it harder to sort alphabetically across programs (i.e., citizenship country of birth Peoples Republic of China compared to other data tables, China, PRC, The Netherlands vs. Netherlands, The etc).