CCSD RESEARCH

The CCSD research team specializes in social, economic, labour market and demographic issues, and provides statistical and analytical research services to our clients. Many of our research reports are available online (see below).

Research Reports

Some of our online research reports are in PDF format, requiring Acrobat Reader software to be installed on your computer. If you don't already have it, click the "Get Acrobat" button.

Please remember that CCSD publications on our website are available for viewing and personal use. It is not permissible to reproduce hard copies of these publications for sale or free distribution to others. Printed copies of all CCSD publications must be purchased.

2008

• The Economic Well-Being of Children in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico

2007

• Workplace Literacy is a collection of five reports about literacy programs in the workplace.

• Child Health and Safety in Canada, the United States, and Mexico provides indicator data on the physical, mental and environmental health of North American children.

• Urban Poverty Project 2007 consists of a number tools and reports for analyzing and understanding poverty in Canadian cities.

2006

• Pan-Canadian Funding Practice in Communities, by Katherine Scott, examines the Government of Canada's current funding practices for the voluntary sector. The full report and the executive summary are available from the Funding Matters page.

• Growing Up in North America is the first in a series of indicator reports on children in Canada, the US and Mexico. It was jointly produced by the CCSD, the Annie E. Casey Foundation in the US, and Red por los derechos de la infancia en México.

• The Progress of Canada's Children 2006. One of CCSD's most popular publications, this is the 7th in a series of social indicators reports that tracks the well-being of Canadian kids over time.

• Making Connections: Social and civic engagement among Canadian immigrants. This report looks at how new Canadians - despite obstacles - contribute to Canada through volunteer work, charitable giving, and involvement in community organizations.

• Stats & Facts: a colourful series of data-rich fact sheets on a variety of subjects including families, education and demographics.

2005

• The 20th edition of the Disability Research Information Sheet analyzes the medication and health care patterns of children with disabilities.

• The 19th edition of the Disability Research Information Sheet looks at combinations of disabilities.

• The 18th edition of the Disability Research Information Sheet provides employment-related statistics about persons with disabilities

• The 17th edition of the Disability Research Information Sheet focuses on gaps between the requirements of persons with disabilities and the supports and services available to them.

• Expanding the Federal Pay Equity Policy Beyond Gender

  • Main Report [PDF file, 55 pages, 950kb]

  • Report Appendices [PDF file, 59 pages, 200kb]

  by John Anderson, Gail Fawcett, Kate Rexe, Ekuwa Smith, and Spyridoula Tsoukalas
  (report prepared in 2003, released by the client in 2004, published on CCSD website in 2005 to coincide with the the National Association of Women and the Law's Pay Equity Campaign)

  This CCSD study was one of 29 external research papers commissioned by the Pay Equity Task Force, under the authority of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, and the Minister of Labour for the Government of Canada. The Task Force’s final report, Pay Equity: A New Approach to a Fundamental Right, was released in May 2004 and it incorporated many of the recommendations made by the CCSD.

2004

• Funding Matters...for our Community (Phase 2 of the Funding Matters project)

• The 16th edition of the Disability Research Information Sheet focuses on workers with disabilities and the impact of workplace structures.

• Disability Research Information Sheets, Numbers 13-15

• Poverty by Postal Code - a joint report by the United Way of Toronto and CCSD researchers Paul Roberts, Kate Rexe and John Anderson. [April 2004]

• Income Inequality as a Determinant of Health - A report about population health by Health Canada, based on papers and presentations by CCSD's Katherine Scott. [April 6, 2004]

• Nowhere to Turn? Responding to Partner Violence Against Immigrant and Visible Minority Women [March 2004]

2003

• Canadian Children's Exposure to Violence: What it Means for Parents

• Proceedings and Final Report on the Working Conference on Strategies to Ensure Economic Security for All Canadians, by Sally Lerner, University of Waterloo. (24 pages, PDF file)

• The Personal Security Index 2003

• Funding Matters: The Impact of Canada’s New Funding Regime on Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Organizations

• Disability Research Information Sheets #9-#12

• Census Shows Growing Polarization of Income in Canada

• Aboriginal Children in Poverty in Urban Communities: Social exclusion and the growing racialization of poverty in Canada

• Working Conference on Strategies to Ensure Economic Security for All Canadians

2002

• A Lost Decade: Income Equality and the Health of Canadians - Katherine Scott's presentation at the Social Determinants of Health conference, [December 2, 2002]

• The Progress of Canada's Children 2002 [November 4, 2002]

• The Personal Security Index 2002: After September 11th [July 15, 2002]

• Understanding Parents' Perceptions of Violence [June 26, 2002]

• A Community Growing Apart: Income Gaps and Changing Needs in the City of Toronto [March 13, 2002]

• A Decade of Decline [March 2002]

• Canada Beats the USA - But Loses Gold to Sweden (Key Indicators of Social Development) [March 8, 2002]

• Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? Labour Market Experiences and Incomes of Recent Immigrants [February 25, 2002]

• Perception -- CCSD's magazine (tables of contents, and selected articles)

• Reclaiming our Humanity (background paper for social development think-tank) [PDF file, 83 pages, 213K] [January 10, 2002]

• Disability Research Information Sheets [ongoing]

2001

• Recreation: Not Just Fun and Games [December 6, 2001]

• Learning Through Recreation (Data Analysis and Review) [PDF file, 89 pages, 178K] [December 6, 2001]

• Four Hypotheses About the Public Policy Significance of Youth Recreation [PDF file, 18 pages, 73K] [December 6, 2001]

• A Good Year Tops Off a Lost Decade: A Preliminary CCSD Analysis of Income Trends in Canada to 1999 [November 29, 2001]

• Children and Youth with Special Needs [November 2001]

• Defining and Re-defining Poverty [October 2001]

• Globalization and Progressive Social Policy (by Andrew Jackson, October 2001)

• Building Bridges Across Generations in the Workplace (by Sylvain Schetagne, CCSD and the Columbia Foundation, 2001) [PDF, 36 pages, 125K]

• Gaining Ground: The Personal Security Index 2001 (by Sylvain Schetagne, Andrew Jackson and Shelley Harman, 2001)

• Physical Housing Conditions and the Well-Being of Children (by Andrew Jackson and Paul Roberts, 2001)

• Still Struggling: An Update on Teenagers at Work (by Andrew Jackson and Sylvain Schetagne, 2001)

• The Progress of Canada's Children 2001

• Social Policy at Risk: Can Canada Make the Right Choices? (Marcel Lauzière's speaking notes for presentations in Saskatchewan in January 2001)

2000

• Low-income Trends in the 1990s (full paper available online)

• Why We Don’t Have to Choose between Social Justice and Economic Growth: The myth of the equity/efficiency trade-off"

• The Canadian Fact Book on Poverty 2000

• Riding the Technology Wave: Experiences of adult literacy students and teachers in Ontario

• Immigrant Youth in Canada

• Bringing Down the Barriers: The Labour Market and Women with Disabilities in Ontario

• Personal Security Index 2000

• Urban Poverty in Canada: A Statistical Profile

• The Progress of Canada's Children 1999-2000

• A Profile of Poverty in Mid-sized Alberta Cities

• Computers and Adult Literacy: Voices of computer literacy students in Ontario (full report available online)

1990s

• Thinking Ahead: Trends affecting public education in the future (full report available online)

• Urban Poverty in Quebec: Metropolitan Regions

• Social Spending Across the Life Course: Summary Report (for Health Canada)

• Income and Child Well-being: A new perspective on the poverty debate

• The Personal Security Index 1999

• Youth at Work in Canada

• The Changing Nature of Part-time Work

• Public Sector Downsizing: The Impact on Job Quality in Canada

• Are women catching up in the earnings race? (Executive Summary available online)

• Left Poor by the Market: A look at family earnings and poverty

• The Road to Retirement: Demographic and Economic Changes in the 90s (Highlights available online)

• Canada's Income Security Programs

• The Canadian Fact Book on Poverty -- 1994 (Highlights available online)

• Inclusive Social Policy Development: Ideas for practitioners (booklet online; hard copy out of print)

• The Progress of Canada's Children 1998 (Highlights etc. available online)

• The Progress of Canada's Children 1997

• Measuring Well-being: Proceedings from a Symposium on Social Indicators

• The Progress of Canada's Children 1996

• A Statistical Profile of Urban Poverty (1996)

• Temporary Employment in Canada: Profiles, Patterns and Policy Considerations

• Child Poverty in Canada: Recasting the Issue

• Speech by David Ross (Measuring social progress, starting with the well-being of Canada's children, youth and families (Full speech available online)