1996 - Program
Brock University, St. Catharines, ON
June 1-3, 1996
The following is the program that the Canadian Population Society presented at Brock University on June 1-3, 1996. To encourage further discussion around the papers that were presented, links are provided to the abstracts for (almost) all of the papers, and e-mail links to most of the core presenters.
June 1, 1996
Immigration and Settlement Policy Issues
Organizer: John Samuel, Carleton University
Chair: Douglas Giddings, Human Resources Development Canada
| Russell Wilkins | The Health of Canada's Immigrants |
| K.G. Basavarajappa | Male-Female Differences in Income of the Elderly by Birthplace and Sources of Income, Canada, 1990 |
| Bill Marr and Pierre Siklos | Does Class of Immigration make a Difference to the Use of Unemployment Insurance by the Foreign-Born in Canda, 1980-1988? |
| K.V. Rao | Asian Immigrants in the United States: : Recent Trends |
| Arun Roy | Job Displacement Impact of Canadian Immigrants |
Marriage, Family and Fertility
Organizer and Chair: T.R. Balakrishnan,
Sociology, Western Ontario
Discussant: Shiva Halli
| Margaret DeWit, Bryan Embree, and David DeWit) | The Role of Family Functioning in the Association between Childhood Sexual Victimization and Substance Abuse: Results from a Native Community and Comparison with the General Population |
| Claude Dionne and Donald Kerr | Intergenerational Approach and Population Estimation |
| Paul Maxim | Estimating Fertility Differentials among Immigrant and Non-immigrant Women in Canada |
| Zheng Wu | Pre-marital Cohabitation and Timing of First Marriage |
Brown Bag Lunch: International Cooperation
in Population and Development
Organizer and Chair: Rod Beaujot,
Sociology, Western Ontario
Discussant: Michael Shenstone, retired from External Affairs
| Ruth Archibald | International Dimensions of Population: Canada's Role |
Health, Morbidity and Mortality
Organizer: Samar Mitra, Sociology,
Emory University
Chair: Judith Rempel,
Community Strategies Department, City of Calgary
| Jiajian Chen, Russell Wilkins and Francois Nault | Marital Status and Health Expectancy in Canada, 1986 to 1991 |
| Gerry Hill | The Entropy of Health and Disease: Dementia in Canada |
| Samar Mitra | An Adjustment to Brass' Logit Model of the Probabilities of Survival |
| Sulaiman Bah | Modelling the Relationship between Cause of Death Structure and Overall Mortality: The Case of Mauritius |
Population and Social Policy
Organizer: Susan A. McDaniel,
Sociology, Alberta
Chair: Andrew Wister, Gerontology
and Sociology/ Anthropology, Simon Fraser
Discussant: Rosemary Venne,
University of Saskatchewan
| T.H. Wonnacott | How Many People Should the Earth Hold |
| Mark W. Rosenberg and Eric G. Moore | Financing Long-Term Care: Demography Meets Public Policy |
| Susan A. McDaniel | Connecting Women and Aging: Older Single Parents Looking Back |
2 June 1996
Ethnic, Linguistic and Other Cultural
Dimensions of Demographic Behaviour
Organizer and Chair: Bali Ram,
Demography, Statistics Canada
Joint Session with Canadian
Sociology and Anthropology Association:
| Frank Trovato | Marital Status and Mortality among Immigrants in Canada |
| Paul Gingrich | Refugee Settlement and Integration in Regina |
| Brian Harrison | Youth and Children of Official Language Minorities: 1971-1991 |
| Cameron W. Stout | Nunavut: Canada's Newest Territory |
Population Pot-Pourri
Organizer and Chair: Edward Ng,
Health Statistics, Statistics Canada
| Frank Trovato and N.M. Lalu | Decomposition Analysis of Causes of Death Responsible for Narrowing Sex Differences in Life Expectancy in the Industrialized World |
| P. Krishnan | Population and Politics: Canadian Style |
| Edward Ng and Francois Nault | Census-based Estimates of Fertilityby Mother's Socio-Economic Characteristics in Canada, 1991 |
| M.V. George and S.Y. Dai | Canada's Employment Equity: Designated Groups Projections |
| Zongli Tang | Minority Status and Chinese Fertility in Canada |
| Russell Wilkins | Demonstration of 1991 Census Public Use Microdata File |
| Jiajian Chen | Demonstration of National Population Health Survey Data File |
An Update on the 1991 Census Analytical
Studies Program and Presentation of Some Findings from Selected Monographs
Census Analytic Studies
Organizer and Chair: Andrew J. Siggner,
Census Analysis, Statistics Canada
| Eric G. Moore, Mark W. Rosenberg and Donald McGuinnis | Growing Old in Canada: Some Findings: from Growing Old in Canada: Demographic and Geographic Perspectives on Aging and its Implications on Health Care and Social Services |
| Yves Perron, Helen Desrosiers, Evelyne Lapierre-Adamcyk, Celine Le Bourdais, Nicole Marcil-Gratton, Joel Mongeau, Denis Morissette | Canadian Families on the Eve of the Year 2000 from the monograph of the same title |
| Andrew J. Siggner, Eric Guimond, Norbert, Robitaille, and Gustave Goldmann | Aboriginal Peoples of Canada: A Demographic Perspective from the monograph of the same title |
| Paul Bernard, Douglas Baer, Johanne Boisjoly, James Curtis, and Maryanne Webber | How Canada Works: Changes in the Makeup of the Labour Force in the 1970s and 1980s from the monograph of the same title |
3 June , 1996
Labour Market, Work and Education and
the General Social Survey
Organizer and Chair: Pierre Turcotte,
Statistics Canada
| Monica Boyd and Elizabeth M. Grieco | Triumphant Transitions: Socio-Economic Achievements of the Second Generation in Canada |
| Paul Bernard, Andre Bernier, and Rene Potvin | Contingent Work and the Absence of Control Over One's Professional Trajectory |
| Jim Curtis and Serge Desmarais | Selected Correlates of Perceived Income Entitlement |
| Neil Guppy and Scott Davies | Labour Market Dynamics in the Teaching Profession |
Demographic Patterns among Young Adults
Organizer and Chair: Carl F. Grindstaff, Sociology, Western Ontario
| Andrew Wister, Barbara Mitchell, and Ellen Gee | Does Money Matter? Parental Income and Living Arrangement Satisfaction Among "Boomerang" Children During Co-Residence |
| John Zhao | Patterns of Home-leaving Among Young Canadian Adults: Analyses of the 1995 General Social Survey |
| Godfrey St. Bernard | Union Formation and Reproductive Behaviour among Young Adults in Trinidad and Tobago |
| Ann Marie Sorenson and Carl F. Grindstaff | Single Parenting Or Adoption: the Psychological Adaptation and Socio-Economic Well-Being of Former Teenage Mothers in Young Adulthood |
