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Record W4412973287 · doi:10.1111/grow.70041

The Places We'll Go: Who Moves to Rural Canada?

2025· article· en· W4412973287 on OpenAlexaffabout
Lindsay Finlay, Michael Haan

Bibliographic record

VenueGrowth and Change · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicRural development and sustainability
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCensusMetropolitan areaDestinationsImmigrationGeographyPopulationRural areaEconomic growthDemographic economicsSocioeconomicsPolitical scienceDemographySociologyEconomicsTourism

Abstract

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ABSTRACT As Canada increases immigration rates, there is a greater need for geographic dispersion to counteract issues of population ageing and economic disparities. Historically, Canada's main Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) have experienced the most significant gains in terms of new arrivals. The problem, however, is that this leaves rural regions falling behind in terms of both population increases and overall development. As such, understanding the characteristics of rural movers is of utmost importance, especially regarding potential policy initiatives aimed at ensuring newcomers to Canada are evenly distributed across the country. This study adds to the growing body of literature looking at the urban‐rural divide by investigating the characteristics of individuals who engage in rural migration, including secondary migrants, by looking at those who lived in urban Canada in 2020 but, as of 2021, have moved into rural locations through the use of the 2021 Canadian Census. Overall, individuals making migratory decisions are often white, married, with children, and non‐immigrants, thereby necessitating updated initiatives as a means of drawing in a more diverse newcomer population to rural destinations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.553
Threshold uncertainty score0.879

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.194
Teacher spread0.184 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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