This indicator tracks the total number of people employed in Basin-Boundary Development Regions. Data are reported by sector. Employment rates are also considered in this analysis. The employment rate measures the percentage of Canadian adults (15 years of age and over) working for pay. Data for...Read more

This indicator measures the number of people over the age of 15 with post-secondary education. Data for this indicator are from the 2011 National Household Survey. Responses to the survey record the number of people with: (a) no certificate, diploma or degree, (b) high school diploma or...Read more

The Composite Index of Crime is an index formed by the weighted averages of three indicators: serious violent crime rate (weight of 0.35), serious property crime rate (weight of 0.50), and number of serious crimes per police officer (weight of 0.15). Rates are based on the number of reported...Read more

This indicator tracks annual average hourly readings of fine airborne particulates (referred to as PM2.5). Six monitoring stations track PM2.5 levels in the region, though not all of them have been active for the full five years. Data were acquired from the BC Ministry of Environment’s air data...Read more

This indicator tracks the percentage of the Labour Force (aged 25-54) with a post-secondary certificate/diploma or higher in Basin-Boundary Development Regions (DRs). Data are reported by DR. Data for this indicator were sourced from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey (LFS).Read more

This indicator measures the area burned each year by wildfires, based on records of fires since 1919 from the Wildfire Management Branch of the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. The area burned from year to year is highly variable and is closely correlated with both...Read more

The unemployment rate is a strong indicator of economic health. If our economy’s purpose is to allocate our resources to the best uses, then unemployment rates give us a good indication of how well the economy is using one of our most important resources—people.Read more

Consumptive water use is an important issue in the Basin-Boundary region for several reasons. First, rates of water use in this region are typically higher than the averages for BC and Canada (Environment Canada, 2011). Second, the diversion, treatment, and delivery of drinking water has costs—...Read more

This indicator measures the median hourly wage earned by workers in Basin-Boundary Development Regions. Employment income constitutes the majority of most households’ total income. Since income is a strong social determinant of health, trends in wages indicate trends in a region’s social and...Read more

This indicator measures the percent of eligible voters in the Columbia Basin-Boundary region who voted in local government elections. Data for this indicator were gathered from CivicInfoBC’s compendium of local election results which includes data for 2008, 2011, and 2014. Data for...Read more