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Aggregate Level Community Characteristics And Health, Jianlin Niu, Roderic Beaujot
Aggregate Level Community Characteristics And Health, Jianlin Niu, Roderic Beaujot
PSC Discussion Papers Series
This study links aggregate data from the 2001 census to individual data from the Canadian Community Health Survey, using dissemination areas as the unit of aggregation. Individual-level considerations are found to be more important to self-perceived health than community-level characteristics. Education and income adequacy are the most important considerations. Sense of belonging to community overshadows the features measured at the aggregate level, be they economic, family, cultural or geographic considerations.
Stress And Adult Health: Impact Of Time Spent In Paid And Unpaid Work, And Its Division In Families, Roderic Beaujot, Robert Anderson
Stress And Adult Health: Impact Of Time Spent In Paid And Unpaid Work, And Its Division In Families, Roderic Beaujot, Robert Anderson
PSC Discussion Papers Series
Based on a sample representative of the Canadian population aged 30-59, this paper assesses the impact of time spent on productive activities, and various types of activities, on stress and health. The main finding is that the number of hours spent is a better predictor of stress than is the type of activity. Moreover, the effects of paid and unpaid work are additive rather than multiplicative. That is, the more people work, regardless of what they are doing, the more likely they are to feel stressed. Still, working irregular hours and non-traditional family models are also associated with poorer health …
Earning And Caring: Porter Lecture, Roderic Beaujot
Earning And Caring: Porter Lecture, Roderic Beaujot
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This paper speaks especially to the family dimensions of equal opportunity. Defining families through the activities of earning and caring, I first consider family change along with explanations based on structural and cultural factors. I then make the case that equal opportunity by gender has progressed considerably in education, while there are persistent inequalities in unpaid work, and the inequalities in paid work can often be related to those in unpaid work. By focussing on family models and the world of work, we see that various models co-exist, but that several policies are based on the breadwinner model. The paper …
Effects Of Community And Family Characteristics On Early Life Transitions Of Canadian Youth, Zenaida R. Ravanera, Rajulton Fernando, Thomas K. Burch
Effects Of Community And Family Characteristics On Early Life Transitions Of Canadian Youth, Zenaida R. Ravanera, Rajulton Fernando, Thomas K. Burch
PSC Discussion Papers Series
This paper looks at the impact of community and family characteristics on the timing of early life transitions of Canadians born in 1971-75. Effects on the timing of school completion, start of regular work, and home-leaving are examined using a data set that merged the 1995 General Social Survey of the Family with data derived from the enumeration areas of the 1996 Census. Event history techniques of analysis are used to examine timing and trajectories of transition and how they are affected by families and communities. The results show that family and community-level characteristics indicative of availability of material resources, …
Teaching The Fundamentals Of Demography: A Models-Based Approach To Family And Fertility, Thomas K. Burch
Teaching The Fundamentals Of Demography: A Models-Based Approach To Family And Fertility, Thomas K. Burch
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