Indigenous Services Canada's Community Well-Being (CWB) index: income, education, housing and labour force activity, each scored from 0 to 100, and their mean, from census profile figures.
Usage
cwbscr(
incpercap,
highsch20p,
uni25p,
notcro,
nomajrep,
partic,
empl,
bounds = c(2650, 75000)
)Details
The components, as the index's methodology sets them out (Penney, O'Sullivan and Senecal 2012; O'Sullivan and McHardy 2013; Indigenous Services Canada's reports on trends, 1981 to 2016 and 2021):
- income
\(100 (\log y - \log a) / (\log b - \log a)\) for income per capita \(y\) (total income over total population) between the bounds \(a\) and \(b\) (2,650 and 75,000 dollars in the 2016 and 2021 series; 2,000 and 40,000 in the earlier ones), kept between 0 and 100 here.
- education
two thirds of the percentage aged 20 and over with at least a high school certificate, plus one third of the percentage aged 25 and over with a university degree at the bachelor's level or above.
- housing
half the percentage of people in dwellings with no more than one person per room, plus half the percentage in dwellings that need no major repairs.
- labour
half the participation rate, plus half the employment rate of those participating (ages 20 to 64).
The index is the mean of the
four. Indigenous Services Canada computes it from unrounded census microdata,
scores only communities of 65 people or more and suppresses the components of
communities under 250 people or 40 households: scores from published, rounded
profile figures come close to the published index but need not equal it, and
a small community's should be treated as the Department would. The full
current methodology is available from the Department on request. The index
measures socio-economic conditions as the census counts them; it says nothing
of culture, language or relationship to land, and is not a measure of
wellness as First Nations and Inuit define it. The CWB is Indigenous Services
Canada's index, with bounds in the Canadian dollars of its series: for
another country, set bounds in its currency and read the result as a
CWB-style score, not comparable with Canada's.
References
Penney C, O'Sullivan E, Senecal S (2012). The Community Well-Being Index (CWB): Examining Well-Being in Inuit Communities, 1981-2006. Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.
O'Sullivan E, McHardy M (2013). The Community Well-Being (CWB) Index: Disparity in Well-Being Between First Nations and Other Canadian Communities Over Time. In White JP, Peters J, Beavon D, Spence N (eds), Aboriginal Well-Being: Canada's Continuing Challenge. Thompson Educational.
Indigenous Services Canada (2019). Report on trends in First Nations
communities, 1981 to 2016 (Community Well-Being index).
sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1345816651029/1557323327644
Examples
# made-up profile figures for two communities, to show the computation
cwbscr(incpercap = c(18000, 31000), highsch20p = c(58, 81),
uni25p = c(6, 19), notcro = c(71, 95),
nomajrep = c(62, 90),
partic = c(55, 68), empl = c(78, 92))
#> ╭── Community Well-Being scores ────────────────────────────────────────╮
#> │ Communities 2 │
#> │ Mean CWB 67.17 │
#> │ CWB range [57.74, 76.60] │
#> │ │
#> │ community income education housing labour cwb │
#> │ --------- ------ --------- ------- ------ ----- │
#> │ 1 57.31 40.67 66.50 66.50 57.74 │
#> │ 2 73.57 60.33 92.50 80.00 76.60 │
#> │ │
#> │ Each component runs from 0 to 100, and the CWB score is their mean: │
#> │ income, education, housing and labour force activity. │
#> ╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯