2007 National Vital Signs Report

Vital Signs is an annual check-up conducted by community foundations across Canada that measures the vitality of our communities, identifies significant trends, and assigns grades in at least ten areas critical to quality of life. The Vital Signs project was originally developed by the Toronto Community Foundation and is coordinated nationally by Community Foundations of Canada.

Vital Signs Canada provides the national data on each 2007 indicator and a context for the local, more detailed reports in Vital Signs communities. This year, the national findings in three of the ten issue areas demanded extra attention, and in those areas we provide more context, and highlight action examples across the country.

This expanded online version of the report provides links to sources for the data cited.

» Download the published report (3.2MB, PDF)

» Download the expanded report (with footnotes and references) (100kB, PDF)

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