The goal of this paper is to provide a descriptive comparison of economic outcomes for Canadian children, at the bottom, middle and top of the population income distribution. We use a very wide-angle camera, enabling us to provide a broad picture of differences/changes in families, policies and...

Nous avons exploite les donnees de l'Enquete longitudinale nationale sur les enfants et les jeunes pour repondre a deux questions : dans quelle mesure les parents et les enfants sont-ils d'accord dans leurs reponses a des questions identiques sur le bien-etre de l'enfance? dans quelle mesure les...

Le present document de recherche examine si diverses mesures du revenu familial sont associees au developpement cognitif, socio-affectif, physique et comportemental des enfants. Les donnees de l'Enquete longitudinale nationale sur les enfants et les jeunes ont servi a evaluer une gamme de...

This research paper examines whether various measures of family income are associated with the cognitive, social/emotional, physical and behavioural development of children. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth were used to assess a range of measures of well-being...

We use data from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth to address two questions. To what extent do parents and children agree when asked identical questions about child well-being? To what extent do differences in their responses affect what one infers from multivariate...

A statistical association between poor child health and low family income has been well established by Lipman, Offord and Boyle (1994, 1995) and Dooley and Lipman (1995) in a series of papers using data from the Ontario Child Health Study (OCHS). The incidence of psychiatric disorders and poor...

A 1989 all-party motion of parliament called for the elimination of child poverty in Canada by the year 2000. Despite a series of policy initiatives, recent reports suggest that the child poverty rate may now be comparable to that in 1989. The apparent persistence of child poverty in Canada...