POVERTY, GOVERNMENT policy, RELATIVE poverty, POVERTY rate, COST of living, INCOME
Abstract
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SATISFACTION -- Social aspects, INCOME, SURVEYS, SATISFACTION, SUBJECTIVE well-being (Psychology), STATISTICAL research, FRENCH-speaking people, INCOME inequality, PUBLIC goods, SUICIDE, SOCIAL conditions in Canada, CANADIAN history, 1945-, SOCIAL history
Abstract
Self-reported life satisfaction is increasingly measured in government and private surveys around the world. In Canada, life satisfaction questions have not been asked in a consistent manner over time, but the accumulated set of data since 1985, along with recent surveys with repeated structure, now facilitates an analysis of regional changes. Those two and a half decades reveal a significant increase in life satisfaction in the province of Quebec as compared with the rest of Canada. The scale of this increase in well-being is comparable to the imputed effect of more than a trebling of mean household income. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Vaillancourt, Francois, Tousignant, Julien, Chatel-DeRepentigny, Joëlle, and Coutu-Mantha, Simon
Subjects
LABOR market, BILINGUALISM, ENGLISH-speaking Canadians, SOCIOLINGUISTICS, MULTILINGUALISM, LANGUAGE policy, NATIVE language, INCOME & society, INCOME, HUMAN capital -- Social aspects, EMPLOYMENT
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