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NorthCoast's Regional Information Site

NATURE

Sea, land, river

 

ECONOMY

Regional

 

PLACE

Books+

 

PEOPLES

Community


For earlier materials see Table of Contents

BC Stats ranking

See this site for source – there is lots of info on this BC Stats site

Interesting rankings

‘North’ consistently does poorly

 

  Here is the Ranking system—note rankings are relative – thus all units could be very rich but one would still be the ‘poorest’/ worst off

Poverty in NW BC ---

 

Regional district

Age of Recipient

 

 

<19

19-24

25-54

55-64

19-64

<65

 

47

Skeena-Queen-Charlotte

6.0

4.4

3.0

1.9

3.0

3.9

49

Kitimat-Stikine

6.1

4.5

3.1

1.0

3.0

3.9

 

 

British Columbia

2.5

1.4

1.3

0.5

1.2

1.5

Highest provincially in all categories

Recent BC Stats

Table is Basic Income Assistance recipients dated 28 Feb 2006; figures in % of Sept 2005 population

 

 

Same indicators by Regional Districts

Note how rich oil country is still second worst by overall economic indicators – implication that oil wealth not spread evenly

 

Economic Hardship by Health Area

Children at Risk by health area

 

 

 

PR area has low crime stats

 

Crime by Health area

 

 

Health Problems

 Again we are not given the exact meaning of ‘Health Problems’

Created by LG on May 12, 2006

Last updated on Saturday, May 13, 2006