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Aboriginal Conditions : Research As a Foundation for Public Policy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (313 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774851794
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Aboriginal ConditionsDDC classification:
  • 305.897/071
LOC classification:
  • E78.C2 -- A1253 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Focus of Aboriginal Conditions -- Part 1: Thinking Outside the Box: Building Models Based on Communities -- 1 Social Capital, Social Cohesion, and Population Outcomes in Canada's First Nations Communities -- Part 2: The Limits of Our Knowledge and the Need to Refine Understandings -- 2 Perils and Pitfalls of Aboriginal Demography: Lessons Learned from the RCAP Projections -- 3 Impacts of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act on First Nations Populations -- 4 Changing Ethnicity: The Concept of Ethnic Drifters -- 5 Aboriginal Mobility and Migration Patterns and the Policy Implications -- Part 3: Confronting Culture with Science: Language and Public Policy -- 6 Aboriginal Language Retention and Socio-Economic Development: Theory and Practice -- 7 Aboriginal Language Transmission and Maintenance in Families: Results of an Intergenerational and Gender-Based Analysis for Canada, 1996 -- Part 4: Measuring and Predicting Capacity and Development -- 8 An Application of the United Nations Human Development Index to Registered Indians in Canada, 1996 -- 9 Dispersion and Polarization of Income among Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Canadians -- 10 Toward an Index of Community Capacity: Predicting Community Potential for Successful Program Transfer -- Conclusion: The Research-Policy Nexus - What Have We Learned? -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.
Summary: Social science researchers from both within and outside of government collaborate to examine how research can and should be used as a foundation for the development of public policy.
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Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Focus of Aboriginal Conditions -- Part 1: Thinking Outside the Box: Building Models Based on Communities -- 1 Social Capital, Social Cohesion, and Population Outcomes in Canada's First Nations Communities -- Part 2: The Limits of Our Knowledge and the Need to Refine Understandings -- 2 Perils and Pitfalls of Aboriginal Demography: Lessons Learned from the RCAP Projections -- 3 Impacts of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act on First Nations Populations -- 4 Changing Ethnicity: The Concept of Ethnic Drifters -- 5 Aboriginal Mobility and Migration Patterns and the Policy Implications -- Part 3: Confronting Culture with Science: Language and Public Policy -- 6 Aboriginal Language Retention and Socio-Economic Development: Theory and Practice -- 7 Aboriginal Language Transmission and Maintenance in Families: Results of an Intergenerational and Gender-Based Analysis for Canada, 1996 -- Part 4: Measuring and Predicting Capacity and Development -- 8 An Application of the United Nations Human Development Index to Registered Indians in Canada, 1996 -- 9 Dispersion and Polarization of Income among Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Canadians -- 10 Toward an Index of Community Capacity: Predicting Community Potential for Successful Program Transfer -- Conclusion: The Research-Policy Nexus - What Have We Learned? -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.

Social science researchers from both within and outside of government collaborate to examine how research can and should be used as a foundation for the development of public policy.

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