Rural and Small Town Canada examines the economic and social reality of rural and small town Canada. Emphasis is placed on labour markets, the well-being of people, economic diversity, and the environment.

This book provides a wealth of information not available elsewhere. Much of the analysis is based on unpublished tabulations derived from Statistics Canada's vast databases. This work is an invaluable resource for all those interested in the future of rural Canada.

Editor

Ray D. Bollman

Statistics Canada

Introduction

• 1. Rural and small town Canada: An overview, Ray D. Bollman and Brian Biggs
• 2. Falling farther behind: current conditions in rural America, David Freshwater and Kenneth Deavers

Business linkages

• 3. Products and competitiveness of rural Canada, Michael Trant and George Brinkman
• 4. Growth of small and medium size business: a rural-urban comparison, J.S. McVey
• 5. The importance of the agriculture sector to the Canadian economy: an input-output analysis, Paul J. Thomassin

Rural labour markets

• 6. Workers in the urban shadow Robert Parenteau and Louise Earl
• 7. Are single industry towns diversifying? An examination of fishing, forestry and mining towns, Heather Clemenson
• 8. Small communities in Atlantic Canada: their industrial structure and labour market conditions in the early 1980s, Garnett Picot and John Heath
• 9. Distance and diversity in nonmetropolitan economies, Philip Ehrensaft and Jennifer Beeman
• 10. Participation of women in the labour force: a comparison of farm women and all women in Canada, Marcelle Dion and Steve Welsh
• 11. Farm family linkages to the non-farm sector: the role of off-farm income of farm families, A.M. (Tony) Fuller and Ray D. Bollman

Rural well-being

• 12. The changing rural environment: a look at Eastern Ontario's Jock River basin, Douglas F. Trant
• 13. Health of the rural population: selected indicators, Russell Wilkins
• 14. Health of the rural population: occupational mortality patterns, Martha Fair
• 15. Population, income and migration characteristics of urban/rural areas and farm/non-farm families in Saskatchewan, Bruce Meyer
• 16. Rural deprivation: a preliminary analysis of census and tax family data, Bill Reimer, Isabelle Ricard, & Frances M. Shaver
• 17. The distribution of federal-provincial taxes and transfers in rural Canada, Brian. B. Murphy
• 18. Social indicators from the General Social Survey: some urban-rural differences, Douglas A. Norris and Kulbir Johal
• 19. The Aboriginal socio-economic situation: a rural-urban comparison, Andrew, J. Siggner
• 20. Small-area, socio-economic profiles: a case study of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Ken Donnelly

Does rural matter?

• 21. The economics of rural-urban integration: a synthesis of policy issues, L.P. Apedaile
• 22. Does rural matter?, Craig McKie (Also available in a French edition.)

Instructor's Manual

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