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2004 Congress and RDC Symposium Papers - some with Member-only Access

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A journey through data: the riches of the Research Data Centres

• Chair Rajulton Fernando (Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario).
• Gustave Goldmann (Research Data Centres, Statistics Canada). An overview of the Research Data Centre (RDC) program and this Symposium

Part 1 Ethno-cultural roots, Chair Barry Edmonston (Portland State University)

• Jennifer Chard (Immigration and Ethnicity Statistics, Statistics Canada). The Ethnic Diversity Survey (EDS).
• Jessie-Lynn MacDonald (Special Surveys Division, Statistics Canada). The Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC).

Part 2 Children and education, Chair Satya Brink (Learning Policy Directorate, Human Resources Development Canada)

• Lynn Barr-Telford, Fernando Cartwright (Centre for Education, Statistics Canada). The Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) and other educational data.
• André Cyr, Charles Tardif (Longitudinal Special Survey Methodology, Statistics Canada). The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY).

Part 3 Population health, Chair Philippe Finès (Régie régionale de la santé et des services sociaux de l'Outaouais, and Health Analysis and Measurement Group, Statistics Canada)

• Mario Bédard (Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada). The Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS).
• France Bilocq (Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada). The National Population Health Survey (NPHS).

Part 4 Social and economic well-being, Chair Pascale Beaupré (Demography Division, Statistics Canada) Susan Stobert (General Social Survey, Statistics Canada).

• The General Social Surveys (GSS). Susan Stobert (Housing, Family and Social Statistics Division, Statistics Canada).
• The Workplace and Employee Survey (WES). Marie Drolet (Business and Labour Market Analysis, Statistics Canada).
• The Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID). Heather Lathe (Income Statistics Division, Statistics Canada).

Determinants of health: socio-economic status, immigration and other factors

• Philippe Finès (Régie régionale de la santé et des services sociaux de l'Outaouais, and Health Analysis and Measurement Group, Statistics Canada). Does the income-mortality gradient vary across urban areas in Canada?
• Sharon M Lee (Department of Sociology, Portland State University). Acculturation and health: an exploratory study of immigrant women in the United States.
• Edward Ng, Russell Wilkins, Jean-Marie Berthelot (Health Analysis and Measurement Group, Statistics Canada). Healthy immigrant effect in Canada: a longitudinal perspective using National Population Health Surveys.
• Yimin Lou (Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario). How socio-economic position, structures and transformations of families influence people's health status and behaviours.
• Russell Wilkins (Health Analysis and Measurement Group, Statistics Canada), William J Kierans (British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency), Michael Kramer (Department of Pediatrics and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University) et al. Using linked birth and infant death data to describe disparities in birth outcomes across various demographic groupings in British Columbia from 1981 through 2000. PowerPoint / Adobe Acrobat.
• NOTE: The reference for the full paper is: Kierans W et al., Charting birth outcome in British Columbia (Victoria: BC Vital Statistics Agency, 2004 April). www.vs.gov.bc.ca/stats/features/index.html (report + 2 appendices).

Ageing: transitions to retirement, activity patterns, and psychological well-being of the elderly

• Leroy Stone, Hasheem Nouroz (Family and Community Support Systems, Statistics Canada), Alexandre Genest (Social Policy, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada), Jacques Légaré (Département de démographie, Université de Montréal). A new comprehensive measure to identify whether a person is engaged in a transition to retirement.
• Tingting Lu, Anne H Gauthier (Department of Sociology, University of Calgary). Cross-national differences in the activity patterns of elderly adults. MS PowerPoint / Adobe Acrobat.
• Zheng Wu, Christoph M Schimmele (Department of Sociology, University of Victoria). Living arrangements and psychological well-being of the oldest old population in China.

Population health research in Manitoba

• Leslie L Roos, Lisa Lix (Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba). The future of information-rich environments.
• Evelyn L Forget (Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba), Leslie L Roos, Randy Walld (Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba). How does an individual's past influence current demand for health services?
• Verena Menec, Lisa Lix, Carmen Steinbach, Okechukwu Ekuma, Monica Sirski, Ruth-Ann Soodeen. (Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba). An examination of factors related to location of death.
• Patricia J Martens (Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba). Rural and northern Manitobans: are they sicker, and do they have less access to health care services than people living in Winnipeg and Brandon?
• Ruth Bond, Leslie L Roos (Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba). Web-based tools for research design and project management.

Aboriginal peoples and internal migration

• Andrey N Petrov (University of Northern Iowa and Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia). Population dynamics in the Canadian North in the 1990s: factors and spatial patterns. PowerPoint / Adobe Acrobat
• Bali Ram, Y Edward Shin (Demography Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa). Educational selectivity of interprovincial migration in Canada, 1976-1981 to 1996-2001.
• Yohannes Kinfu (Center for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University). Spatial mobility among Indigenous Australians: patterns and determinants.
• Andy Siggner, Janet Hagey (Housing, Family and Social Statistics Division, Statistics Canada). Measuring demographic change in the Aboriginal population residing in urban areas of Canada.
• Heather Tait (Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Statistics Canada). Country food harvesting and community wellness among Inuit in the Canadian North.

Immigration and ethnic diversity in Canada: Part 1. Location, fertility, alternative medicine, and citizenship

• Feng Hou (Business and Labour Market Analysis Division, Statistics Canada), Larry Bourne (Department of Geography, University of Toronto). Migration and immigration in Canada’s immigrant gateway centres: a comparative study of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
• TR Balakrishnan, Zenaida Ravanera, Teresa Abada (University of Western Ontario). Spatial residential patterns and socio-economic integration of Filipinos in Canada.
• Alain Bélanger, Stéphane Gilbert (Demography Division, Statistics Canada). The fertility of immigrant women and their Canadian-born daughters.
• Christopher J Fries (Department of Sociology, University of Calgary). Ethnic background and the use of alternative medical practices in Canada.
• Kelly Tran (Housing, Family and Social Statistics Division, Statistics Canada), Stan Kustec, Martha Justus (Strategic Research and Statistics, Citizenship and Immigration Canada), Tina Chui (Housing, Family and Social Statistics Division, Statistics Canada). Becoming Canadian citizens: two data sources, one concept.

Immigration and ethnic diversity in Canada: Part 2. Education, occupation, and home ownership

• Martha Justus (Strategic Research and Statistics, Citizenship and Immigration Canada), Jessie-Lynn MacDonald (Special Surveys Division, Statistics Canada). Selected findings from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada: first steps towards integration.
• Tina Chui, Kelly Tran (Housing, Family and Social Statistics Division, Statistics Canada), Jessie-Lynn MacDonald (Special Surveys Division, Statistics Canada). Landing a job: the role of foreign credentials.
• Barry Edmonston (Population Research Center, Portland State University). Who buys? Home ownership trends for immigrants in Canada. MS Powerpoint / Adobe Acrobat.
• Jennifer Chard, Jane Badets (Immigration and Ethnicity Statistics, Statistics Canada). Ethnic identification in Canada.

Demonstration

• Alan Simmons (Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University). Globalization and international migration: a framework and materials for research and teaching.

Immigration policies, age and sex data, local population estimates, and demographic models

• Richard A Wanner (Department of Sociology, University of Calgary), Jaap Dronkers (Department of Political and Social Science, European University Institute). The effects of immigration policies and welfare regime on the income and occupational status of immigrants to 23 Western countries.
• Shirley Loh, Ravi Verma, Margaret Michalowski (Demography Division, Statistics Canada). An evaluation of the age and sex data from the 1971 to 2001 censuses of Canada, the provinces and territories.
• Zongli Tang (Department of Sociology, Auburn University at Montgomery). A national cohort method for better age distributions in population estimates.
• Alison Yacyshyn (Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario). Models of population, health and food.

Families and childbearing in Canada

• Germain Bingoly, Évelyne Lapierre-Adamcyk (Centre interuniversitaire d'études démographiques, Université de Montréal). Attitudes towards the family and fertility intentions among young Canadian men and women.
• Amir Erfani, Roderic Beaujot (Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario) Attitudes towards childbearing: a generational shift in the orientation to family and childbearing.
• Zenaida R Ravanera, Fernando Rajulton (Population Studies Centre, University of Western Ontario). Social Status Polarization in the Timing and Trajectories to Motherhood.
• Catherine D Krull (Department of Sociology, Queen’s University). Women’s daily life in San Isidro, Cuba: time-space patterns in a culture of resistance.

Parents and children in Canada

• Pascale Beaupré, Pierre Turcotte (Demography Division, Statistics Canada). Children and the stability of cohabiting couples.
• Valerie Martin (Centre interuniversitaire d'études démographiques, Institut national de la recherche scientifique), Melinda Mills (Department of Research Methodology, Vrije Universtiteit Amsterdam), Céline Le Bourdais (Centre interuniversitaire d'études démographiques, Institut national de la recherche scientifique). What is the impact of parental divorce on family formation behaviour in Canada?
• Kei Nomaguchi (Department of Sociology, University of Calgary). Early maternal employment, parenting practices, and children’s outcomes: the Canadian experience.
• Don Kerr (King's University College, University of Western Ontario). Family structure and child outcomes: an illusive relationship.
• Alain Gagnon (Population Studies Centre, University of Western Ontario), Samuel Pavard (Équipe Eco-Anthropologie, CNRS – Musée de l’Homme), Bertrand Desjardins (Programme de recherches en démographie historique, Université de Montréal), Evelyne Heyer (Équipe Eco-Anthropologie, CNRS – Musée de l’Homme). Mother’s death, sibling care and child survival.

Demographic perspectives on developing countries. Part 1. Determinants of fertility

• Stephen Obeng Gyimah (Department of Sociology, Queen’s University). Migration and fertility behaviour in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Satyajeet Nanda (Gujarat Institute of Development Research). Determinants of motherhood in teenagers and fate of their pregnancy outcome: evidence from the National Family Health Survey of India. MS Powerpoint / Adobe Acrobat
• Ali Muhammad (Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario). Time invariant covariates of successive births in Pakistan. MS PowerPoint / Adobe Acrobat
• G Mustafa Zahid (Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario). Impact of maternal education and health-related behaviours on infant and child survival in Pakistan. MS PowerPoint / Adobe Acrobat
• Xingshan Cao (Department of Sociology, University of Toronto). Does village endogamy affect fertility behaviour? The case of rural China. MS PowerPoint / Adobe Acrobat
• Amir Erfani (University of Western Ontario), Socio-demographic determinants of effective fecundability of married women in Turkey: a hazards-model analysis of first birth interval.

Demographic perspectives on developing countries. Part 2. Social and economic challenges to development

• Jianye Liu (Department of Sociology and Population Studies Centre, University of Western Ontario). Who is dropping out of school in Vietnam?
• Parveen Nangia (Social Planning Council of Sudbury). Is gender disparity in child care declining in India? A comparison of findings from the first and second National Family Health Surveys.
• Danièle Bélanger (Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Western Ontario). Unpacking ‘son preference’ or the trajectory of a demographic variable.
• Stephen Obeng Gyimah (Department of Sociology, Queen’s University), Baffour Takyi (Department of Sociology, University of Akron). Kinship structure and marital stability in Ghana.
• D Walter Rasugu Omariba (Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario). Family- and community-level clustering of childhood mortality risk in Kenya. MS PowerPoint / Adobe Acrobat
• G Edward Ebanks (Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario). Population challenges: Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
• Barnabé Ndarishikanye (Canadian International Development Agency). Migrants' remittances from Canada to Central America and the Caribbean.