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  • 1. Satisfaction with family relationships by gender and other selected sociodemographic characteristics
    Table: 45-10-0091-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Percentage of persons aged 15 years and over by satisfaction with family relationships, by gender and other selected sociodemographic characteristics.
    Release date: 2024-03-26
  • 2. Satisfaction with friend relationships by gender and province
    Table: 45-10-0092-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Percentage of persons aged 15 years and over by satisfaction with friend relationships, by gender, for Canada, regions and provinces.
    Release date: 2024-03-26
  • 3. Satisfaction with friend relationships by gender and other selected sociodemographic characteristics
    Table: 45-10-0093-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Percentage of persons aged 15 years and over by satisfaction with friend relationships, by gender and other selected sociodemographic characteristics.
    Release date: 2024-03-26
  • 4. Trust in news or information from media by gender and province
    Table: 45-10-0096-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Percentage of persons aged 15 years and over by level of trust in news or information from media, by gender, for Canada, regions and provinces.
    Release date: 2024-03-26
  • 5. Trust in news or information from media by gender and other selected sociodemographic characteristics
    Table: 45-10-0097-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Percentage of persons aged 15 years and over by level of trust in news or information from media, by gender and other selected sociodemographic characteristics.
    Release date: 2024-03-26
  • 6. Having someone to count on by gender and province
    Table: 45-10-0050-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Percentage of persons aged 15 years and over by frequency with which they have people to depend on when needed, by gender, for Canada, regions and provinces.
    Release date: 2023-10-12
  • 7. Having someone to count on by gender and other selected sociodemographic characteristics
    Table: 45-10-0051-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Percentage of persons aged 15 years and over by frequency with which they have people to depend on when needed, by gender and other selected sociodemographic characteristics: age group; immigrant status; visible minority group; Indigenous identity; persons with a disability, difficulty or long-term condition; LGBTQ2+ people; highest certificate, diploma or degree; main activity; and urban and rural areas.
    Release date: 2023-10-12
  • 8. Sense of belonging to local community by gender and province
    Table: 45-10-0052-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Percentage of persons aged 15 years and over by strength of sense of belonging to their local community, by gender, for Canada, regions and provinces.
    Release date: 2023-10-12
  • 9. Sense of belonging to local community by gender and other selected sociodemographic characteristics
    Table: 45-10-0053-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Percentage of persons aged 15 years and over by strength of sense of belonging to their local community, by gender and other selected sociodemographic characteristics: age group; immigrant status; visible minority group; Indigenous identity; persons with a disability, difficulty or long-term condition; LGBTQ2+ people; highest certificate, diploma or degree; main activity; and urban and rural areas.
    Release date: 2023-10-12
  • 10. Social inclusion indicators for Canada’s ethnocultural groups: Social connections and personal networks
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023010
    Description: This interactive data visualization tool uses graphs to present social inclusion indicators under the theme of Social connections and personal networks. The indicators (trusting most people in general, strong sense of belonging, size and composition of personal networks, population living alone) can be disaggregated by visible minority and selected sociodemographic characteristics for the population in private households. Data are available for Canada. This data visualization tool is part of a broader conceptual framework on social inclusion and covers a total of 11 themes. Each theme has a similar interactive visualization tool.
    Release date: 2023-03-29
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  • 21. The Social Participation of Full-time Workers Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-004-M2013002
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article examines the social participation of full-time workers, both formal (i.e., volunteering for organizations) and informal (i.e., helping friends, neighbours). We also look at relatively unexplored factors of social participation, such as flexibility of working conditions, commuting time and worker categories.

    Release date: 2013-04-02
  • 22. Quality of personal networks: Does living alone matter? Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-008-X201100211591
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article compares the personal networks of adults aged 25 to 64 living alone with those of adults living in a couple. It provides data on size of networks, frequency of contact and feelings of social loneliness. It also examines the extent to which people living alone are more likely to have personal networks of lower or higher quality than those living in a couple when various factors are taken into account. Data are from the 2008 General Social Survey.

    Release date: 2011-11-30
  • 23. Personal networks and the economic adjustment of immigrants Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-008-X201100211592
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Recent immigrants are having more difficulty adjusting to the Canadian economy than did their predecessors. It is taking newcomers longer to achieve employment and income levels similar to those of the Canadian-born. Using the General Social Survey conducted in 2008, this article examines whether personal networks, along with more typically-used measures of human capital, might explain differences in employment and income levels between immigrants and other Canadians. Are more limited personal networks associated with lower employment rates and incomes among Canada's more recent immigrants?

    Release date: 2011-11-30
  • 24. Psychometric properties, factorial structure, and measurement invariance of the English and French versions of the Medical Outcomes Study social support scale Archived
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X201100211437
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article examines the internal consistency of the English and French versions of the Medical Outcomes Study social support scale for a sample of older adults. The second objective is to conduct a confirmatory factor analysis to assess the factor structure of the English and French versions of the scale. A third purpose is to determine if the items comprising the scale operate in the same way for English- and French-speaking respondents.

    Release date: 2011-05-18
  • 25. 2008 General Social Survey report: Social networks help Canadians deal with change Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-008-X200900210891
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    More than four in ten Canadians reported a major change in their lives in the last twelve months. Using the 2008 General Social Survey on social networks, this article examines the types of change, their impact and how they are handled at various life stages. Results show that social networks, especially family, played an important role in dealing with change.

    Release date: 2009-06-26
  • 26. How Canadians' Use of the Internet Affects Social Life and Civic Participation Archived
    Articles and reports: 56F0004M2008016
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The Internet's rapid and profound entry into our lives quite understandably makes people wonder how, both individually and collectively, we have been affected by it. When major shifts in technology use occur, utopian and dystopian views of their impact on society often abound, reflecting their disruptiveness and people's concerns. Given its complex uses, the Internet, both as a technology and as an environment, has had both beneficial and deleterious effects. Above all, though, it has had transformative effects.

    Are Canadians becoming more isolated, more reclusive and less integrated in their communities as they use the Internet? Or, are they becoming more participatory and more integrated in their communities? In addition, do these communities still resemble traditional communities, or are they becoming more like social networks than cohesive groups?

    To address these questions, this article organizes, analyzes and presents existing Canadian evidence. It uses survey results and research amassed by Statistics Canada and the Connected Lives project in Toronto to explore the role of the Internet in social engagement and the opportunities it represents for Canadians to be active citizens. It finds that Internet users are at least as socially engaged as non-users. They have large networks and frequent interactions with friends and family, although they tend to spend somewhat less in-person time and, of course, more time online. An appreciable number of Internet users are civically and politically engaged, using the Internet to find out about opportunities and make contact with others.

    Release date: 2008-12-04
  • 27. Geovisualization of health and social capital data derived from Statistics Canada surveys Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-522-X200600110447
    Description:

    The classification and identification of locations where persons report to be more or less healthy or have more or less social capital, within a specific area such as a health region, is tremendously helpful for understanding place and health associations. The objective of the proposed study is to classify and map areas within the Zone 6 Health Region (Figure 1) of Nova Scotia (Halifax Regional Municipality and Annapolis Valley regions) according to health status (Dimension 1) and social capital (Dimension 2). We abstracted responses to questions about self-reported health status, mental health, and social capital from the master files of the Canadian Community Health Survey (Cycles 1.1, 1.2 and 2.1), National Population Health Survey (Cycle 5), and the General Social Survey (Cycles 13, 14, 17, and 18). Responses were geocoded using the Statistics Canada Postal Code Conversion File (PCCF+) and imported into a geographical information system (GIS) so that the postal code associated with the response will be assigned to a latitude and longitude within the Nova Scotia Zone 6 health region. Kernel density estimators and additional spatial interpolators were used to develop statistically-smoothed surfaces of the distribution of respondent values for each question. The smoothing process eliminates the possibility of revealing individual respondent location and confidential Statistics Canada sampling frame information. Using responses from similar questions across multiple surveys improves the likelihood of detecting heterogeneity among the responses within the health region area, as well as the accuracy of the smoothed map classification.

    Release date: 2008-03-17
  • 28. Young adults who give and receive help Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-008-X20050049125
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Using the 2003 General Social Survey (GSS), this paper examines the extent of helping behaviours given and received by young adults aged 15 to 24. This age group was chosen because the positive social behaviours of young adults are not often examined. Particular helping behaviours given and received in the month prior to the survey included providing emotional support; teaching, coaching, or giving practical advice; providing transportation or running errands; doing domestic work, home maintenance or outdoor work; helping with child care; or other forms of help.

    Release date: 2006-03-21
  • 29. Cornerstones of Community: Highlights from the National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations Archived
    Journals and periodicals: 61-533-X
    Description:

    This publication provides the first national portrait of the many thousands of nonprofit and voluntary organizations found in every Canadian community. The data, from the National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations, reveal a set of organizations that are widely diverse in nature, touching virtually every aspect of Canadians' lives.

    Release date: 2005-06-30
  • 30. Social Engagement and Civic Participation: Are Rural and Small Town Populations Really at an Advantage? Archived
    Articles and reports: 21-006-X2005004
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This bulletin uses General Social Survey (GSS), cycle 17 data to examine various aspects of social engagement, social cohesion and social participation.

    Release date: 2005-06-21
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