Dimensions of social inclusion and exclusion in Yukon, 2010

Dimensions of Social Inclusion and Exclusion In Yukon, 2010 This report was written by Rachel Westfall, Senior Statistician, Yukon Bureau of Statistics., on behalf of the Office of Social Inclusion, Department of Health and Social Services. [...] The Yukon social inclusion indicators are shaped around two broad categories: personal and community assets, which serve as the keys to access and participation; and access to necessities and participation in society, the end results of social inclusion. [...] Food and material goods: - The Consumer Price Index and Spatial Price Index, which indicate increases in the cost of living and differences in the cost of goods and services between Whitehorse and other Yukon communities - Measures of material deprivation, developed in Ontario and used in the Yukon Social Inclusion Household Survey - Food security indicators, measured in the Canadian Community Hea [...] While 37 percent of the aboriginal population age 25 and older had no certificate, diploma or degree (for both Yukon and Canada), 13 percent of the Yukon non-aboriginal population and 20 percent of the non-aboriginal Canadian population had less than a high school education. [...] While the rates of apprenticeship, trades and college certificates and diplomas were similar in the aboriginal and non-aboriginal populations, university certificates, diplomas and degrees were far more common in the non-aboriginal population.