Socio-Economic Trends in the Canadian North: Comparing the Provincial and Territorial Norths
Bibliographic record
Abstract
While there has been a recent increase in social research relating to the Canada’s Territorial North, there is a relative poverty of research dealing with the Provincial North. That comparatively little has been written about the Provincial North means it is difficult to compare the social and economic situations in these two regions. This article is an introductory comparison of key socio-economic indicators as contained in the Census of Canada. The data shows that there are both similarities and important differences between these two regions. In addition to the Provincial Norths having a much larger population than the Territorial North, the two regions have different occupational and industrial structures with the Provincial Norths having more blue-collar jobs linked to the resource sector while employment in the territories is much more dependent on the public sector. Despite this, in terms of population change, both regions appear to be very much influenced by the booms and busts of the resource economy. Both regions have higher percentages of Aboriginal population than most regions in Canada. Indeed, differences between the various regions of the Canadian North are likely the result of variations in the percentage of the population that is Aboriginal.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".