Personal Consumption Rates for Canada: Differentiated By Family Size and Income Level Using Survey of Household Spending (SHS) 2000 Data
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Canada’s leading legal scholar on the subject of injury torts, Ken CooperStephenson, wrote in Personal Injury Damages in Canada (1996) that the object of each province’s Fatal Accidents Act1 is to “restore the defendants to the financial position they would have been if the deceased had lived” (p. 419).2 A substantial body of common law has developed whereby Canadian judges3 have attempted to decide personal consumption rates (PCRs) to assign to the decedent when making an award to the surviving family,4 but few (or possibly none) have considered evidence on the influence of family income on PCRs. Generally speaking, Canadian courts have considered all sources of the decedent’s income interrupted by his/her death;5 the surviving spouse’s income level when making the award, and the number of dependents and span of dependency. They have rejected the notion characterizing the type of marriage to assess emotional loss for survivors who lose the benefit of spending money on his/her partner or providing services.6
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".