Update, April‒June 2015: Nunivaat – Nunavik Statistics Program

RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

Study on the Cost of Living in Nunavik – Under the Agreement on the Financing of Measures to Reduce the Cost of Living in Nunavik signed in 2013, the Makivik Corporation, the KRG and the Québec government made a commitment to use the results of this study to define effective and long-term solutions to the region’s high cost of living. Data collection work is currently taking place in six selected communities, specifically Kangiqsualujjuaq, Kuujjuaq, Tasiujaq, Salluit, Puvirnituq and Umiujaq. As of the end of June, 125 households had been surveyed and, by the end of September, an additional 100 households are expected to have been surveyed. The results of the study are expected to be ready for release in 2016.

Nunavik in Figures 2015 – The full version and the pocket edition of this publication will be ready for release in September. The publication contains the most up-to-date socio-economic data available on the region and its residents. The pocket edition will be available in French, English and Inuktitut.

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Data and Publications – During the second quarter of 2015, publications and data were added to or updated on the Nunivaat databank.

New tables

• Profiles of the total population for the following indicators: Aboriginal identity, language, religion, education, mobility, population, income, labour, citizenship, immigration, visible minorities and housing. These tables display data for each village and for the whole region.
• Profiles of the population aged 60 and older: living arrangements (alone, in a census family, or with relatives) and marital status. These tables are available for male and female on a regional basis.

Updated tables

• Population decree for 2015 by the Ministère des Affaires Municipales et de l’Occupation du territoire (municipal affairs and land occupancy).
• Number of tuberculosis cases by village between 2004 and 2014 by the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services.

New publications

1. Economic Portrait of Nunavik 2012. Final Report on the Construction of the Social Accounting Matrix of Nunavik. Robichaud V. and G. Duhaime, Report presented to the Kativik Regional Government, March 2015, 18 p.
2. Le programme Nutrition Nord Canada, Garon, J. and G. Duhaime, research note, Canada Research Chair on Comparative Aboriginal Condition, Université Laval, Québec, 12 pages + appendices.

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