Ray D. Bollman

Dr. Ray Bollman

Ray D. Bollman is a retired researcher from Statistics Canada with a distinguished career focused on rural migration and demographic analysis. Although he is retired from active research and writing, Ray supports researchers by helping them navigate the data sources available within Statistics Canada.

Select Publications:

Bollman, Ray D. (2023) “The Demographic Context of Rural Canada: The Size of the Indigenous and Visible Minority Population.” Chapter 1 in Clark Banack and Dionne Pohler (ed.) Building Inclusive Communities in Rural Canada (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press) (an electronic copy is free to download from the publisher)

Bollman, Ray D. (2023) Rural Demography: Rural Canada is growing (but not everywhere). Presentation to the Canadian Economics Association, May 30, 2023 (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZEbMJQi6ZiBsXvZGN2w0u4dcv6Oms8Kz/edit#slide=id.p1).

Bollman, Ray D. (2022). “Density Matters and Distance Matters: Canadian Public Policy from a Rural Perspective.” Chapter 13 in Karen R. Foster and Jennifer Jarman (ed.) The Right to be Rural (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press).

Bollman, Ray D. (2021) “COVID-19 and the differential impacts on the rural and urban economies.” Journal of Rural and Community Development Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 245 – 298 (with an appendix of charts for each province) (https://journals.brandonu.ca/jrcd/article/view/2063).

Bollman, Ray D. (2017) Workforce attraction as a dimension of regional competitiveness: An analysis of migration across labour market areas. (Brandon: Rural Development Institute, Brandon University) (https://www.brandonu.ca/rdi/files/2017/06/Workforce-Attraction-as-a-Dimension-of-Regional-Competitiveness.pdf).

Bollman, Ray D. (2015) “Youth migration, 2009-2014.” Focus on Rural Ontario Vol. 3, No. 5 (Guelph: Rural Ontario Institute) (http://www.ruralontarioinstitute.ca/focus-on-rural-ontario.aspx). (Se also Vol. 3 No. 4)

Bollman, Ray D. (2014) “Non-metro migration: 18 to 24 years of age.” Focus on Rural Ontario (Vol. 2, No. 11, September, 2014) (http://ruralontarioinstitute.ca/uploads/userfiles/files/11-%20Migrants%2018%20to%2024%20Oct%207.pdf). (See also Vol. 2, No. 9,10,12,13 & 14)