Policy Brief: Spousal Sponsorship and Conditional Permanent Residence
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This document contains two (2) policy briefs on the subject of Spousal Sponsorship. One from Jan 2016 and one from Nov 2016. These policy briefs present research on racial and gendered effects of conditional permanent residence (Conditional PR) and related policies that impact immigrants who are sponsored by their spouses or partners to immigrate to Canada. In this report, we focus on data that was retrieved from Citizenship and Immigration Canada for all sponsored spouses, common-law and conjugal partners between October 2012 and December 2014. Our research included conversations with front-line service providers, lawyers and immigrant advocates who were consulted through a series of community forums and individual interviews in Alberta and Ontario.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.018 | 0.054 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.026 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.058 | 0.015 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".