HHS4UThe Disciplines in the Social Sciences

February 10th, 2015

AGENDA

Discuss and present the Family Timeline posters

Examine various Stats Canada trends that impact families – discuss and reflect

Remember ** Quiz on Thursday, February 12th, 2015 Historical Family Letter DUE February 13th, 2015

ORIGINS OF THE FAMILY Get into groups (roughly 2 in each group) In your group, you will choose from one of the 10

family categories Origin of the family Pre-industrial Hunter gatherer Urban industrial First Canadian families Modern consumer Agricultural Contemporary Canadian Patriarchal Future families

You will create a poster providing the name of the family category and some important information pertaining to it (try to get at least 5 facts/points down)

In the end we will create a timeline, earliest families to future families

GROUP ANALYSIS FOR STATS CAN STUDIES

Get into small groups (roughly 5 groups of 4) Look over the 3 Stats Canada surveys conducted Come up with various factors that may contribute

to the changes that take place over time, keeping in mind family dynamics Cultural influences, gender roles, age, gender, religion,

ethnicity, dependents (children), type of job etc.In your groups, create your own research question(s) – be sure to make your question(s) specific - and hypothesis, what research methods you would use to obtain data about your research question (i.e. surveys, interviews, structured/unstructured observations, experiments etc.)

Keep your research question(s) focused on family dynamics

EXAMINING TRENDS THAT AFFECT FAMILIES Stats Canada http://

www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/150206/dq150206a-eng.pdf

What are the results from the labour force survey (LFS) conducted in January 2015?

What trend do you see occurring in Chart 1 According to the survey, there was an increase in

employment for women over 55. What are possible reasons for this?

According to the survey, the number of self-employed increased by 41,000 in January. Compared with January 2014, employment for this group of workers rose by 59,000 or 2.2%. What does this tell you about the employment climate? Are there any missing factors in the survey? What are some societal, familial, cultural, religious, gender, ethnic

reasons for the results of this survey?

EXAMINING TRENDS THAT AFFECT FAMILIES

Families, households and housing - A ‘household’ is a person or a group of people occupying the same dwelling. The studies and data on housing describe the physical attributes of living quarters, not the persons occupying the dwelling.

Census Family – Census families are married couples or couples living common law with or without children, or lone parents with at least one child living in the same dwelling.

Economic Family - Economic families are groups of two or more people living in the same dwelling who are related to each other by blood, marriage, common law, or adoption.

STATS CANADA: INUIT HEALTH http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/140826/dq140826b-eng.pdf What is the purpose of the study? Health indicators

The survey revealed that 45% of Inuit aged 15 and older reported excellent or very good health in 2012, while the figure for the entire Canadian population was 63%

What does this reveal about Inuit health? Health behaviours

Just over half (52%) of Inuit aged 15 and older reported that they smoked cigarettes daily in 2012, compared with 16% of Canadians overall. Between 2001 and 2012, the prevalence of daily smoking among Inuit fell from 61% to 52%

What do these result tell us about changing trends? Social determinants of health

Just over 4 in 10 (41%) Inuit aged 15 and older lived in households that experienced food insecurity, compared with 8% of the total population of Canada. As well, 22% reported that they had personally experienced hunger in the 12 months prior to the survey because they could not afford to buy enough food.

Explain how the differences nationally compared to the Inuit population may contribute to health status.

What are some societal, familial, cultural, religious, gender, ethnic reasons for the results of this survey?

STATS CANADA: CONSUMPTION OF CULTURE BY OLDER CANADIANS ON THE INTERNET

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/130130/dq130130c-eng.pdf

What is the purpose of the study? Older Canadians increased their use of the Internet over the

last decade, but remained less likely to use it for their consumption of some cultural items, namely music listening and video viewing.

Even though older Canadians have increased their use of the Internet, there is a notable generation gap in the areas of video viewing and downloaded music, two Internet-related culture items that have grown popular in recent years.

Yet older Canadians listened to music as frequently as they did in the late 1990s, but still relied on traditional formats when they listened to music

What are some societal, familial, cultural, religious, gender, ethnic reasons for the results of this survey?

STATS CANADA: 2011 CENSUS OF POPULATION http://

www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/120919/dq120919a-eng.pdf Census data show that married couples declined as a proportion of

all census families between 2006 and 2011. Nevertheless, they still formed the predominant family structure in Canada, accounting for two-thirds of all families.

In contrast, the proportion of common-law couples and lone-parent families both increased. For the first time, common-law couples outnumbered lone-parent families in 2011.

The number of same-sex married couples nearly tripled between 2006 and 2011, reflecting the first full five-year period for which same-sex marriage has been legal across the country.

The 2011 Census of Population counted stepfamilies for the first time. They represented about one in eight couple families with children.

For the first time, the census counted the number of children in stepfamilies and foster children. Data showed 1 out of every 10 children aged 14 and under in private households lived in a stepfamily in 2011.

2011 CENSUS OF POPULATION CONTINUED Married couples increased 3.1% Number of common-law families increased 13.9% Number of lone-parent families rose 8% Among lone-parent families, growth was more than twice

as strong between 2006 and 2011 for male lone-parent families (+16.2%) compared with female lone-parent families (+6.0%). About 8 in 10 lone-parent families were female lone-parent families.

Same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in July 2005. Between 2006 and 2011, the number of same-sex married couples nearly tripled (+181.5%), while the number of same-sex common-law couples rose 15.0%. As a result, married couples represented 32.5% of same-sex couples in 2011, nearly twice the share of 16.5% in 2006.

What are some societal changes that could lead to these trends?