Readiness to learn at school among five-year-old children (Nov. 27)
Girls and boys differed in important ways in their readiness to learn as they entered school at the age of five, with girls outperforming their male counterparts in several areas. |
Gender differences in university participation (Nov. 23)
Women's participation in university has outpaced men's since the late 1970s, and the gap widened substantially during the 1990s. A major factor underlying the steady increase in university enrolment among women is that it pays more for women to attend university. |
Balancing career and care (Nov. 22)
Just as they are finishing off the task of raising children, many Canadians face a new challenge in life — providing care to aging parents, relatives or friends. Most of these caregivers are also in the work force. |
Measuring housing affordability (Nov. 22)
Although the vast majority of Canadian households live in suitable and adequate housing, 1.7 million spent 30% or more of their budget on shelter costs in 2004. |
Children with disabilities and chronic conditions and parental health (Nov. 22)
Mothers of chronically sick or disabled children are twice as likely to report being in "poor" or "fair" health than those without chronically sick or disabled children. |
Patterns of exit and return of Canadians (Nov. 17)
The extent to which Canadians leave Canada for other countries, particularly the United States, was an issue through much of the 1990s. But the number of people who leave the country remains small, and it has fallen in recent years. |
Domestic and foreign influences on Canadian prices over exchange rate cycles (Nov. 8)
Both Canadian producers and importers adjusted their prices downward during periods of appreciation in the exchange rate, though less than proportionately to the rate of appreciation of the Canadian dollar. |
How workers perceive their daily commute to work (Nov. 7)
Surprisingly, the proportion of workers who reported last year that they liked their commute to and from work (38%) was higher than the percentage who were negative about it (30%). One out of every six workers, about 16%, even said they liked commuting a great deal. |
Trends in weight change among Canadian adults (Nov. 6)
Every two years since 1996/1997, adults aged 18 to 64 were heavier on average. But while they continued to gain weight, the amount they put on decreased significantly in the most recent two-year interval, 2002/2003 to 2004/2005. |
Neighbourhood characteristics and the distribution of crime in Regina (Nov. 2)
Violent crime in Regina was concentrated around the city's core, in neighbourhoods known as Downtown and North Central. Overall, 5 out of 95 neighbourhoods in Regina, or about 5%, accounted for 30% of all violent incidents. |
Earnings instability (Oct. 20)
Lone mothers had the highest degree of volatility in earnings of any family type during the past two decades. Social assistance appeared to be the single most important factor in reducing income instability among lone mothers, much more than for two-parent families. |
Training through the ages (Oct. 20)
Training opportunities are not evenly distributed in Canada. For example, workers who are younger and better educated tend to participate in job-related training at a higher rate. |
Canada's grape and wine industry (Oct. 16)
Canadian wine products have become increasingly popular over the past decade, largely because of a transformation that began during the late 1980s and early 1990s. |
Trends in business bankruptcies (Oct. 12)
Far fewer firms are going bankrupt, but the average size of the net financial losses from bankruptcy has been rising. Recent bankruptcies have involved large liabilities. |
Employment growth in Northern Ontario's communities (Oct. 5)
Communities in Northern Ontario that had a diversified economy in 1981 were more likely to experience employment growth during the following two decades than their less diversified counterparts. |
Returning to the parental home (Oct. 3)
Young people in the so-called Generation X, especially those born between 1972 and 1976, were three times as likely to return home to live with their parents as baby boomers were. The tendency to return home at least once has increased in each of five successive generations, starting with the first wave of baby boomers who were born between 1947 and 1951. |
Interreligious unions (Oct. 3)
With Canada's increasing cultural diversity, interreligious conjugal unions are on the rise, but the vast majority of couples still consist of partners from the same broad religious affiliation group. The likelihood of an interreligious union was associated with where you lived, how homogeneous the religious mix of your community was, how religious you were, how traditional the doctrine of your religion was, and how long you had been in Canada. |
