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Changing Patterns in Canadian Homeownership and Shelter Costs, 2006 Census
This report examines home ownership in Canada and reveals that homeownership rates are increasing as are ownership costs.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Statistics Canada, Income Statistics Division
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June 2008
Income in Canada 2006
This paper provides income data for Canadian families and individuals, including data by region and family type.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Statistics Canada
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May 2008
A Comparison of Rural and Urban Workers Living in Low-Income
This article compares the characteristics of the Canada’s urban and rural low-income families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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The Rural Secretariat, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agriculture Division of Statistics Canada
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January 2008
Growing Up: School, Family and Area Influences on Adolescents’ Later Life Chances
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper explores how the relationship between school, family, and location influences adolescents’ development and their adult economic outcomes.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
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September 01, 2001
The Dynamics of Housing Affordability
This report examines housing affordability in Canada by measuring the percentage of Canadians who spend 30 percent or more of their income on housing.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Statistics Canada
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January 2008
Australian Social Trends 2001: Work - Under-Utilised Labour: Unemployment Trends and Patterns
This document explores the Australian rates of unemployment by age and geographic location, and compares these statistics to international unemployment rates.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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May 20, 2002
Birth Outcomes by Neighbourhood Income and Recent Immigration in Toronto
This study examines differences in non-fatal birth outcomes in Toronto by recent immigration and neighbourhood income.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Statistics Canada
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November 2007
High-income Canadians
Using Canadian tax data, this study suggests that those earning above $89 000 a year are in the top 5% of taxfilers.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Statistics Canada
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September 2007
Overview: Children in Canada in the 1990’s
This paper provides an overview of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) for 1994-1995.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Human Resources Development Canada
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November 01, 1996
Five Million Children: 1992 Update
This report is the second in a series of annual reports on child poverty in the United States and discusses the relationship between child poverty and geographic location, ethnicity, family structure, parental income, and parental education.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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1992
Neighbourhood Influences on Children's School Readiness
This study looks at the ways in which neighbourhood characteristics influence toddlers' and preschoolers' readiness to learn.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Human Resources Development Canada
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October 01, 1998
Family Income 2005
This report uses census data from 2005 to determine median total family income rates for families in different regions of Canada.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Statistics Canada
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May 29, 2007
An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries: A Comprehensive Assessment of the Lives and Well-Being of Children and Adolescents in the Economically Advanced Nations
This report measured child well-being in 21 OECD countries by examining children’s overall health and safety, education, peer and family relationships, behaviours and risks, and young people’s own subjective sense of well-being.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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UNICEF
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February 14, 2007
Annual Demographic Estimates: Census Metropolitan Areas, Economic Regions and Census Divisions, Age and Sex 2001 to 2006
This report provides demographic information about Census Metropolitan Areas and economic regions, measuring population makeup, growth and decline.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Statistics Canada
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January 2007
Growing up in North America: Child Well-Being in Canada, the United States, and Mexico
This analysis of child well-being seeks to determine how local, national and tri-national factors influence children growing up in North America.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation
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May 5, 2006
Measuring up: The performance of Canada’s youth in reading, mathematics and science
This paper examines the academic achievement of Canadian youth in the later years of their schooling.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Human Resources Development Canada, Statistics Canada, Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
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December 2001
Who Goes to Preschool and Why Does It Matter?
This policy brief describes the widespread enrollment of children in preschools in the United States and identifies factors that affect preschool attendance, such as geography, ethnicity, and income.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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National Institute for Early Education Research
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August 2004
Parental Employment Does Not Guarantee Health Insurance for Children
This report outlines state differences in low-income working families' access to and use of public health insurance.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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September 2004
Receipt of Government Supports Varies Widely by State
This fact sheet provides an overview of the percentage of children living in low-income families in all the American states and demonstrates that the well-being of low-income families varies significantly depending on which state they live in.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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National Center for Children in Poverty
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September 2004
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Increase in Immigrant Child Poverty from 1970 to 2000
This paper examines the prevalence and determinants of poverty among the children of immigrants and non-immigrants in the United States.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Center for Family and Demographic Research
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August 2002
Concentrated Poverty vs. Concentrated Affluence: Affluence: Effects on Neighborhood Social Environments and Children's Outcomes
This paper examines the effects of neighbourhood characteristics such as affluence and poverty, as well as the effects of family characteristics on children's reading and math achievement.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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RAND
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May 2003
Marriage and the City
This paper explores the role of the city in providing single people with access to large numbers of potential marriage partners.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Institute for the Study of Labor
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February 2005
Welfare Reform and Migration: Moving to Benefits; Moving From Restrictions
This report discusses the impact of state differentiated welfare reform policies on the migration patterns of American families.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Joint Center for Poverty Research
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December 2002
A Decade of Mixed Blessings: Urban and Suburban Poverty in Census 2000
This paper examines rates of urban and suburban poverty in the United States during the 1990s; a period of rapid economic growth and declining unemployment rates.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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The Brookings Institute
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August 2002
Traps and Stepping Stones: Neighborhood Dynamics and Family Well-Being
This paper examines the effects of neighbourhood characteristics on child and family well-being.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
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March 2004
The Changing Effect of Family Background on the Incomes of American Adults
This paper looks at changes between 1961 and 1999 in the extent to which an individual’s income was affected by parental characteristics such as income, education, socio-economic status, ethnicity, geographic location, occupation, and marital status.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
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November 2003
The Changing Health Status of Canada’s Children
This article examines changes in Canada's infant and child mortality rate in the twentieth century.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Isuma
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Autumn 2000
Educational Performance Among School Students From Financially Disadvantaged Backgrounds
This paper examines data on the educational performance of children from financially disadvantaged backgrounds, and looks at how factors influencing socio-economic status affect a child's education.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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The Smith Family
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2001
Financial Disadvantage in Australia 1990 to 2000: The Persistence of Poverty in a Decade of Growth
This paper examines trends in poverty in Australia in the 1990s, with an analysis of differences based on age, gender, employment status, educational attainment, housing tenure, geographic location and family type.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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The Smith Family, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
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2001
In Our Backyards: How 3 L.A. Neighborhoods Affect Kids' Lives
This paper explores various family and neighbourhood characteristics to determine their effect on children’s lives.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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RAND
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2002
Residential Location and Youth Unemployment: The Economic Geography of School-To-Work Transitions
This paper explores the dynamics of the school-to-work transition among German youth and considers the effect of family background and household characteristics on youths' career and educational decisions.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Institute for the Study of Labor
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December 1999
Abstract
This paper discusses the negative effect that moving can have on children's educational attainment, academic performance, and employment outcomes as young adults.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
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March 2000
A Decade of Decline: Poverty and Income Inequality in the City of Toronto in the 1990s
This report looks at changes in household income, the poverty rate, the depth of poverty, income equality between the wealthy and the poor, and Toronto’s geographic concentration of poverty in the 1990s.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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United Way of Greater Toronto, Canadian Council on Social Development
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January 2002
Measuring Poverty in Canada
This paper, the first part of a study of poverty levels in Canada, addresses problems with the techniques used to measure poverty.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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The Fraser Institute
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July 2001
Low Income (Poverty) Dynamics in Canada: Entry, Exit, Spell Durations and Total Time
Using the Longitudinal Administrative Databank (LAD), this paper attempts to understand “the nature of the hardship associated with the poverty experience” by examining whether poverty is a brief experience or a long-term experience.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Human Resources Development Canada
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June 2000
Healthy Immigrant Children: A Demographic and Geographic Analysis
In looking at data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), the authors identify barriers — such as language proficiency and family structure — that immigrant children and children of immigrants may face in accessing social services, health care, and service networks.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Human Resources Development Canada
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October 1998
Persistent Pockets of Extreme American Poverty: People or Place Based?
This paper addresses the question of whether pockets of extreme regional poverty are the result of the characteristics of the location or of its inhabitants.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Rural Poverty Research Center
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January 2005
Local Social and Economic Conditions, Spatial Concentrations of Poverty, and Poverty Dynamics
This paper explores the geography of poverty and poverty change in the United States and examines the contributions of local job growth, social capital, and initial poverty levels to changing rates of poverty in different areas.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Rural Poverty Research Center
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August 2004
Men Without Sawmills: Masculinity, Rural Poverty, and Family Stability
This paper examines the effects of job loss and unemployment on men's feelings of masculinity in rural settings, and the effect that this has on their ability to maintain functional family relationships.
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Category:
Family Economics > Impact of Geographic Location
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Rural Poverty Research Center
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May 2005
Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Principles, Practice, and Lessons Learned
This article discusses initiatives intended to improve the lives of families in very poor neighbourhoods.
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