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JUNE 2009 - REPORT HIGHLIGHTS - Community Vitality Domain [CVD] - Highlights
KATHERINE SCOTT
Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD)
Bb COMMUNITY VITALITY DOMAIN [CVD] - 11 WELLBEING INDICATORS
1 Rates of Volunteering
2 Number of Close Relatives
3 Providing Assistance to others
4 Poverty Crime
5 Violent Crime
6 Walking alone after dark
7 Trust
8 Experience of Discrimination
9 Caring for others
10 Belonging to Community
11 Participation in Group Activities
C HIGHLIGHTS (8) - Community Vitality Domain
a We’re Participating More in Organizations andVolunteer Activities
b Our Social Networks are Shrinking
c We Provide More Help and Care More about Others
d Crime is Going Down
e Canadians report high levels of personal safety
f There is Good News and Bad News about Social Inclusion
g Trust is Relatively High
h We Feel We Belong
a We’re Participating More in Organizations andVolunteer Activities
1 61% of Canadians were members of non-profit, voluntary organizations in 2003,
up from 51% in the late 1990s.
2 33% of Canadians volunteered with non-profit and charitable organizations in
2003; this was up from 31% in 1997, although the proportion had fallen to 27%
in 2000.
b Our Social Networks are Shrinking
1 The number of Canadians reporting six or more close relatives dropped from
37% in 1996 to 34% in 2003, while the number reporting six or more close
friends went from 40% down to 30%.
c We Provide More Help and Care More about Others
1 83% of Canadians reported that they extend unpaid care and assistance to
family, friends and neighbours in 2004, an increase from 73% in 1997.
2 42% of Canadians in 2003 reported being concerned about the needs of
others, regardless of the pressures of their own lives, an increase
from 27% in 1994.
d Crime is Going Down
1 The national crime rate dropped by 30% between 1991 and 2006.
2 Property crime rates dropped by 36%, from 5,571 per 100,000 in 1993
to 3,588 in 2006.
3 Violent crime has been trending downward since the early 1990s, with
the 2006 rate of 951 per 100,000 down 12% from the 1,081 in 1993.
The rate of sexual assaults in 2006 was the lowest in over 20 years.
e Canadians report high levels of personal safety
1 the proportion feeling safe walking alone after dark increased from
86% in 1993 to 90% in 2004.
f There is Good News and Bad News about Social Inclusion
(based on data availability)
1 In 2004, 4.1% of Canadians reported experiencing discrimination
because of their ethnicity, race, culture, skin colour, religion
or language, a drop from 7.1% in 2002.
2 While 64% of visible minorities in 2002 reported no discrimination
in the previous five years, 20% (1 in 5 Canadians) said that they
often or sometimes experienced it.
3 No figures are available for visible minorities in 2004.
4 Another dimension of race based inequality can be found within
the healthy population and living standards research showing that
visible minorities, on average, have poorer health, lower incomes
and higher rates of poverty.
g Trust is Relatively High
1 55% of Canadians in 2005 believed that, generally speaking, people
can be trusted, up slightly from 53% in 2003.
But 43% reported that “you can’t be too careful in dealing
with others”.
h We Feel We Belong
1 64% of Canadians expressed strong attachment to their local community
in 2005, up from 58% in 2001.
2 The percentage was lowest in Quebec at 55%, but this is up from 47%
in 2001.
A Summary (4) - Community Vitality Domain [CVD]
B Trends (8) - Community Vitality Domain [CVD]
C Highlights (9) - Community Vitality Domain [CVD] - THIS WEB-PAGE
R THE CANADIAN INDEX OF WELLBEING NETWORK
a Based in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo,
the Canadian Index of Wellbeing Network is an independent, non-partisan group
of national and international leaders, researchers, organizations, and
grassroots Canadians.
b Its mission is to report on wellbeing at the national level and promote a
dialogue on how to improve it through evidence-based policies that are
responsive to the needs and values of Canadians.
c The Network’s signature product is the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW).
d The CIW measures Canada’s wellbeing and tracks progress in eight interconnected
categories.
e It allows us, as Canadians, to see if we are better off or worse off than we
used to be - and why.
f It helps identify what we need to change to achieve a better outcome and to
leave the world a better place for the generations that follow.
The Honourable Roy J. Romanow, Chair
The Honourable Monique Bégin, Deputy Chair
University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1
519-888-4567, ext. 31235 | ciwinfo@uwaterloo.ca | http://www.ciw.ca
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