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Perspective Canada as a social report

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This paper reviews the first attempt at social reporting in Canada, Perspective Canada, contrasting it with social reports from other nations, in particular the United States' publication, Social Indicators, 1973. Some future directions and structure for Perspective Canada are suggested, and the paper concludes with a discussion of the importance of the bold use of model building in the analysis of social indicators data, and the innovative use of graphical methods for social reporting.

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  1. Department of Applied Statistics, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

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Fienberg, S.E. Perspective Canada as a social report. Soc Indic Res 2, 153–174 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00300533

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