The great advantage of these programs is they allow individuals to gain work experience (important for scoring on a federal skilled worker application) or even as a first step to applying under the Canadian Experience
Class if the individual works for 24 months in Canada at an appropriate
occupation (the remaining 12 months under a
different work permit).
The study took random samples from populations of
different sizes and then compared the samples to the whole population to see how many records were identifiable, that is, matched uniquely to a unique person in the whole population on the basis of 9 demographic variables: Age (85 categories), race (4 categories), gender (2 categories), ethnicity (2 categories), marital status (3 categories), income (3 categories), employment status (2 categories), working
class (4 categories), and
occupation (42 categories).