Author: Statistics CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
1991 Census Content Consultation Report
Author: Statistics CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: The Schematic State
Author: Debra ThompsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316797244
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
By examining the political development of racial classifications on the national censuses of the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, The Schematic State maps the changing nature of the census from an instrument historically used to manage and control racial populations to its contemporary purpose as an important source of statistical information, employed to monitor and rectify racial discrimination. Through a careful comparative analysis of nearly two hundred years of census taking, it demonstrates that changes in racial schemas are driven by the interactions among shifting transnational ideas about race, the ways they are tempered and translated by nationally distinct racial projects, and the configuration of political institutions involved in the design and execution of census policy. This book argues that states seek to make their populations racially legible, turning the fluid and politically contested substance of race into stable, identifiable categories to be used as the basis of law and policy.
Aboriginal Populations
Author: Frank Trovato Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 1772120324
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
This oral autobiography of two remarkable Cree women tells their life stories against a backdrop of government discrimination, First Nations activism, and the resurgence of First Nations communities. Nellie Carlson and Kathleen Steinhauer, who helped to organize the Indian Rights for Indian Women movement in western Canada in the 1960s, fought the Canadian government's interpretation of treaty and Aboriginal rights, the Indian Act, and the male power structure in their own communities in pursuit of equal rights for Aboriginal women and children. After decades of activism and court battles, First Nations women succeeded in changing these oppressive regulations, thus benefitting thousands of their descendants. Those interested in human rights, activism, history, and Native Studies will find that these personal stories, enriched by detailed notes and photographs, form a passionate record of an important, continuing struggle.
Report to Federal Statistical Agencies
Author: United States. Office of Management and Budget. Statistical Policy DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Race and Racism
Author: Leo DriedgerPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0886293626
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This book brings together contributions from academic and government sectors to analyze the nature and extent of racism in Canada. Approaches ranging from sociology, cultural anthropology, demography, and psychology are represented.
Helping to Shape Tomorrow
Author: Great Britain. Cabinet OfficePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780101751322
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This paper (Cm. 7513, Helping to Shape Tomorrow, ISBN 9780101751322), sets out the terms of the next census, which is to be held on Sunday 27 March, 2011, in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, subject to separate legislative procedures in the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly. The Census will be the 21st in a series carried out every 10 years in England and Wales since 1801, except 1941. The census provides reliable information on the number and characteristics of the population and their holdholds which is used by government, local authorities, the health service, the education and academic community, commercial business and professional organisations. Key design features of this census will be as follows: that the 2011 Census will cover everyone usually resident in England and Wales; forms will be primarily delivered by post, with the public being able to return completed forms either by post, online or via doorstep collection; there will be more questions in this census, covering issues such as national identity and citizenship, ethnicity, second residences, language, civil partnerships, and the date of entry into the UK for immigrants. The publication in divided into seven chapters.
Statistical Reporter
Author: Survey Methods and Practices
Author: Statistics CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This publication shows readers how to design and conduct a census or sample survey. It explains basic survey concepts and provides information on how to create efficient and high quality surveys. It is aimed at those involved in planning, conducting or managing a survey and at students of survey design courses. This book contains the following information: formulating the survey objectives and design a questionnaire; things to consider when designing a survey (choosing between a sample or a census, defining the survey population, choosing which survey frame to use, possible sources of survey error); determining the sample size, allocate the sample across strata and select the sample; appropriate uses of survey data and methods of point and variance estimation in data analysis; data dissemination and disclosure control; using administrative data, particularly during the design and estimation phases; choosing a collection method (self-enumeration, personal interview or telephone interview, computer-assisted versus paper-based questionnaires); organizing and conducting data collection operations; processing data (all data handling activities between collection and estimation) and using quality control and quality assurance measures to minimize and control errors during various survey steps; and planning and managing a survey. This publication also includes a case study that illustrates the steps in developing a household survey, using the methods and principles presented in the book.
Are We 'persons' Yet?
Author: Kathleen A. LaheyPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802080622
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
In 1929 women were declared 'persons' under the British North America Act. Seventy years later a similar move is afoot to establish constitutional personhood for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and transgendered people.