Express Entry Invited Candidates Data Observatory: Program and Intended Province Trends

Replaced, 3 November 2026. Use the newer version: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23925769. It adds the corrected student workbook and a warning that recent 2026 figures may still rise, and it corrects some notes and the citation files. The data values did not change. The files of this version stay as published. Correction notice, 3 November 2026. What was wrong: earlier versions described these figures as near-counts of invitations (for example "not an exact unrounded ITA count") and did not carry IRCC's definition of what is counted. The workbook and one figure also called some sums "lower bounds", which is not guaranteed because published cells are rounded. What changed: labels, notes, the README and the F01 figure description were corrected, and the Open Government Licence attribution was added. What did not change: every data value. This remains a fixed snapshot through 31 July 2026. What these figures count. IRCC's Excel version of this table defines the count as "Express Entry candidates invited to apply and who subsequently applied for permanent residence." These figures are therefore not a count of invitations issued. For example, IRCC's 2023 year-end report states 110,266 invitations for 2023, while this table's IRCC total for 2023 is 85,760 (IRCC Excel, data as of August 31, 2026). For invitations issued, use IRCC's round-by-round results: Express Entry rounds of invitations. Snapshot. 3 November 2026: IRCC's source now runs through 31 August 2026 (file dated 20 October 2026). This version remains a fixed snapshot through 31 July 2026 and has not been updated. IRCC states its data are preliminary and subject to change; for example 2023 British Columbia PNP is 5330 in this snapshot and 5325 in IRCC's current file. Reproducible transformation of the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada open dataset "Express Entry-Invited Candidates – Monthly IRCC Updates", organized by intended province or territory and the source field "Invitation Category." The deposit includes the cleaned CSV and reproducible workbook. Suppressed values remain suppressed and disclosed values retain IRCC's source rounding; 2026 coverage is year-to-date through 31 July 2026. Licence of source data. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada). IRCC source rows are not relicensed under CC BY 4.0. This is a MAK adaptation, not an official IRCC publication or a Government of Canada endorsement. Canonical research page, methodology, correction policy and change log: https://makimmigration.ca/express-entry-invited-candidates-program-province/