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Record W2616329473 · doi:10.59962/9780774857192-009

Fitting Kids In: Children and Inequality in Canada

2007· book-chapter· en· W2616329473 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Shelley Phipps, Lynn Lethbridge

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of British Columbia Press eBooks · 2007
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIncome, Poverty, and Inequality
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMicrodata (statistics)InequalityDemographic economicsIncome distributionSocial inequalityEconomic inequalityDistribution (mathematics)Political scienceGeographySociologyEconomicsEconomic growthDemographyPopulationCensus

Abstract

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This paper adds to the literature on children and inequality a more detailed descriptive analysis of changes in children's experiences of inequality in Canada across time (1973 to 1997) and provides further comparison of the inequality experiences of Canadian children with those of children in 5 other affluent countries (the US, UK, Australia, Germany and Norway). Canada is compared with 3 countries with relatively similar social programs (i.e., the US, the UK and Australia are all from what Esping-Andersen (1990) labels the 'liberal' cluster) as well as with two countries with rather different social programs (Germany is classified as a 'conservative corporatist' state while Norway is 'social democratic'). The focus throughout is upon how changes across time and differences across countries in the family settings of children have affected their experiences of inequality. Microdata from the Survey of Consumer Finance (1973 to 1997) is used to examine where children fit in the Canadian income distribution and how this may have changed over time as family structure, family size, age of parents and labor-force participation of parents have all changed. The position of children in the Canadian income distribution in the late 1990's is also compared to that of children in other affluent countries using microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study with links made to differences across the countries in terms of family structure and size, for example. The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 outlines key trends in family settings (e.g., household structure, family size, parental labor-force participation) experienced by Canadian children. Section 3 presents summary measures of inequality among Canadian children and illustrates how children 'fit' into the Canadian income distribution, overall and for specific groups (e.g., children in lone-parent families; children in one- versus two-earner families). Section 4 compares Canadian children's experience of inequality with that of children living in other affluent countries. Section 5 offers conclusions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.371
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.220
Teacher spread0.197 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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Published2007
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