Canada Beats U.S. - But Loses Gold to Sweden
Description:
A ranking of Canada, the United States and Sweden in terms of the Indicators of Social Development: Income and Poverty, Jobs, Employment Security, Social Supports, Health, Crime, Education and Civic Participation. Using the Olympic model, it ranks those three countries on 25 different social indicators in those eight categories, and then analyses the findings. Sweden: 20 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze, Canada: 4 gold, 19 silver, and 2 bronze, U.S.A: 2 gold, 3 silver, 20 bronze. -Issues: income and poverty, poverty rate, child poverty, employment rate, unemployment rate, wages, earning gap, social services, health care, crime rate, education -Problems: Comparison of the three countries rather than a detailed study of any of them, provides numbers/ statistics for each of the countries in the 25 social indicators. It was concluded that this was useful as an indication of how well Canada fares compared to the other countries.
Type of Resource:
Report
Publication Date:
2002
Location:
Ottawa