Offers an overview of poverty in Canada. Statistics Canada figures on the number of Canadians who were poor in 1992; Poverty and young Canadians; Defining poverty; Estimates on the number of homeless people in Canada; Social assistance and welfa...
• Canada's child poverty rate also hit a historic low of 5.6 percent, meaning about one in 18 children were poor. • There have been significant declines in child poverty and overall poverty since 1996 after a period showing little reduction in poverty: poverty rates (for individuals) ...
edition has been thoroughly updated and features a new chapter on anti-poverty programs, updated data on poverty rates and information on newly developed Canadian measures of deprivation, and an extended discussion of what Canadians can do to first reduce - and then eliminate - poverty in Canada....
Urban poverty in Canada: A statistical profile This study uses the most recent statistics available to compare poverty rates among Canadian cities and provide a profile of Canada's urban poor. Special attention is given to poverty rates among visible minorities, immigrants, and Abori... K.K. ...
Vasdev. “Income Inequality and Homicide Rates in Canada and the United States.” Canadian Journal of Criminology 43 (2001): 219–36. ... RG Wilkinson - 《Social Research An International Quarterly》 被引量: 346发表: 2006年 Deprivation and childhood obesity: a cross sectional study of 20,...
The height of the poverty line in relation to mean disposable income is found to be different in the various countries. The highest poverty lines are found for Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK. Australia, Canada, France and Switzerland are found to have middle-high poverty...
America had a very mild increase in inequality between 1870 and 1910… However, its also in America that the living standard of the bottom 90% surged the most. By 1910, their living standard had increased by a factor of 2.37. Only Canada got close to that increase and it was still immen...
(2021) examined the rates and predictors of suicidality (suicidal ideation and suicide attempts) among Thai LGBT persons; the majority of respondents were gay men (79.3%). The study indicated that 57.4% of the respondents suffered from clinically significant levels of stress and 39.2% of them ...
Description Time constraints, like money constraints, affect individuals’ well-being. Everyone has 24 h in a day, but some individuals have more control or flexibility over their time than others. People who are “time poor” do not have enough discretionary time to engage... ...
Those living in poverty may suffer social isolation and rates of suicide may increase in conditions of poverty. Death of a breadwinner may decrease a household's resilience to poverty conditions and cause a dramatic worsening in their situation. Low income levels and poor employent opportunities for...