2016 Canadian Index of Wellbeing National Report
https://uwaterloo.ca – canadian-index-wellbeing/reports/2016
November 22, 2016
Is our overall quality of life getting better or worse? Are we getting closer or moving farther away from realizing the kind of Canada we want to live in? The 2016 Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) national report compares trends in Canadian wellbeing, showing that the gap between economic growth and wellbeing is widening.
2016 National Index Report: How Are Canadians Really Doing? (PDF) – https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-index-wellbeing/sites/ca.canadian-index-wellbeing/files/uploads/files/ciw2016-howarecanadiansreallydoing-1994-2014-22nov2016.pdf
Executive summary – https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-index-wellbeing/reports/2016-canadian-index-wellbeing-national-report/executive-summary
What is wellbeing – https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-index-wellbeing/reports/2016-canadian-index-wellbeing-national-report/what-wellbeing
Why Canada needs the Canadian Index of Wellbeing – https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-index-wellbeing/reports/2016-canadian-index-wellbeing-national-report/why-canada-needs-canadian-index-wellbeing
Trends and statistical highlights – https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-index-wellbeing/reports/2016-canadian-index-wellbeing-national-report/trends-and-statistical-highlights
Policy directions – https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-index-wellbeing/reports/2016-canadian-index-wellbeing-national-report/closing-gap-innovative-and-integrated-policy-directions
National report raw data – https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-index-wellbeing/reports/2016-canadian-index-wellbeing-national-report/national-raw-data
Appendix A. GDP: What you need to know – https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-index-wellbeing/reports/2016-canadian-index-wellbeing-national-report/appendix-gdp-what-you-need-know
Appendix B. The Canadian Index of Wellbeing: Methods – https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-index-wellbeing/reports/2016-canadian-index-wellbeing-national-report/appendix-b-canadian-index-wellbeing-methods
Acknowledgements – https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-index-wellbeing/reports/2016-canadian-index-wellbeing-national-report/acknowledgements
Key messages – https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-index-wellbeing/reports/2016-canadian-index-wellbeing-national-report/key-messages-national-index-report
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Today, the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) launched its 3rd national report: How are Canadians Really doing? Examining eight domains of wellbeing from 1994 to 2014, the report concludes:
There is a massive gap between Canadians’ wellbeing and GDP, and it has continued to grow since the 2008 recession. While the recession dealt a short term blow to the economy, it stole our leisure time, our volunteer time, our living standards, even our sleep – and we never got these things we value, back.
We need your help to share this important information so we can ask our governments to put the wellbeing of Canadians at the centre of decision making and policy development. Our country, and all of our people, deserve no less! Today, please take a moment to:
– Download it (our report, that is)
– Share it on your social (or from ours @ciwnetwork) using #CdnWellbeing or #AdoptCIW
– Send it to your provincial and federal elected officials.
Based in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo, the CIW tracks 64 indicators from 1994 to 2014 to provide a comprehensive analysis of what Canadians have told us is of vital importance to their quality of life. While economic data are part of the index to capture changes in living standards, the CIW also reports on fluctuations in community vitality, democratic engagement, leisure and culture, education, environment, healthy populations and time use to measure what matters most to Canadians.
Report findings include:
– Living standards rose 23% from 1994 until the 2008 recession, then plummeted almost 11%. More Canadians experience food and housing insecurity and employment is more precarious.
– Leisure and Culture is down more than 9%. In 2014, household spending on culture and recreation was at its lowest point since 1994. Canadians are spending less time away on vacation and participating or volunteering in leisure and cultural activities.
– The environment domain declined by 2.9%.
– Time crunch remains an ongoing challenge. We are spending almost 30% less time with our friends. Commute times are longer and only 35% of us are getting enough sleep.
– Life expectancy is up and ratings for mental health are slightly better, but Canadians’ overall health ratings are worse.
– Education is the only domain to keep pace with GDP. Nine out of 10 students now complete high school; but tuition fees and access to regulated child-care spaces remain important challenges.
– Community Vitality is strong but volunteering fell by 15% after the recession.
– Although voter turnout increased recently, barely one-third of Canadians in 2014 expressed a high degree of confidence in Parliament – down 14 per cent since 2003.
Find out more at ciw.ca.
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