GENUINE PROGRESS INDEX ii Measuring Sustainable Development EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This report assesses economic security in Nova Scotia. It uses an aggregate index, based on security from the economic risks imposed by four key factors – unemployment, illness, old age, and single parenthood – to examine trends in economic security in both Nova Scotia and Canada from 1981 to 2007. It also examines provincial and national trends in four additional indicators (minimum wage levels, social assistance levels, child benefits, and the adequacy of the minimum wage in relation to the poverty line) of the adequacy of Nova Scotia’s social safety net. The basic conclusions: • Economic security in Nova Scotia decreased during the 1981-2007 period, as it did nationwide. In 2007, the overall index of economic security in Nova Scotia was 0.581, a decline of 12.9 per cent from its level of 0.667 in 1981. Nationwide the economic security index declined from 0.666 to 0.555, a decline of 16.7 per cent. • The increased economic risks associated with illness, due to sharp increases in direct private health care expenditures as a proportion of disposable income, were the main driving forces behind this development. The index of security from the risks imposed by illness in Nova Scotia declined by 52.9 per cent from 0.915 in 1981 to 0.431 in 2007.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.005 |
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".