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Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW)
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- Aims to link the country's economic reality and longer-term economic prosperity with social, health and environmental conditions that shape communities.
- Measures living standards, how we spend our time, health and education, the integrity of our ecosystem, community vitality and other factors.
- In Oct 2011 released first composite national number that measures change in quality of life over time
- Involves indicator experts and voluntary organizations from across the country , housed at University of Waterloo
- While initially funded entirely by the Atkinson Charitable Foundation (ACF), the ongoing work of the CIW is supported by a Funders’ Alliance. Members of the Alliance include:
- Atkinson Charitable
- Foundation;
- RBC Foundation;
- Province of Ontario;
- The Lawson Foundation;
- The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation;
- Canadian Council on Learning: and
- University of Waterloo.
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Linda McKessock
Project Manager
519-888-4567 ext. 31235
ciwlinda@uwaterloo.ca
Canadian Index of Wellbeing
University of Waterloo
Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
200 University Ave, W.,
BMH 2116C
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
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Community Social Data Strategy (CSDS)
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- A way for municipalities and community based organizations to access data from Statistics Canada and other institutions to identify and better understand the social and economic trends within their individual communities.
- Led by the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD). The CCSD is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization that develops and promotes progressive social policies inspired by social justice, equality, and the empowerment of individuals and communities through research, consultation, public education, and advocacy.
- Created to raise awareness within the municipal and non-profit sectors about using research data to better understand social and economic trends within their communities.
- There is a national consortium of 19 regional data user networks. There is a regional Community Data Consortium network in most big Canadian cities.
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c/o Canadian Council on Social Development
P.O. Box 13713
Kanata, ON K2K 1X6
Canada
Fax (613) 728-2467
Email :information@ communitydatadonnees communautaires.ca |
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Canadian Council on Learning
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- In early 2010, the Canadian Council on Learning lost its federal funding and since then has had to drastically curtail its activities.
- The CCL will close in 2012 buts its archive of research and reports remains important, including CLI reports up the year 2010.
- One of their key initiatives has been the the Composite Learning Index which combines several sources of data to generate numeric scores representing the state of lifelong learning in Canada and many communities.
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Caroline Liguori
Canadian Council on Learning
613.569.7600
cliguori@ccl-cca.ca |
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Federation of Canadian Municipalities' Quality of Life Reporting System
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- Measures, monitors and reports on the quality of life in Canadian urban municipalities using data from a variety of national and municipal sources
- Its site offers many reports on topics such as housing and income.
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Leanne Holt
Policy Advisor
T. 613-907-6324 |
| Canadian Institute of Health Information |
- CIHI provides accurate, comparable and timely data and information for 24 health occupations in Canada through the Canada’s Health Care Provider Series to support effective management of the Canadian health workforce.
- Its site offers many reports on topics such as wait times and health outcomes
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