Tamarack Institute Webinar: The Role of Communities in Advancing Quality of Life (2024)

Title: The Role of Communities in Advancing Quality of Life
Organizer: The Tamarack Institute (https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/)
Date: July 10, 2024

This webinar recording features a conversation with representatives from Statistics Canada regarding the Quality of Life Framework (https://www160.statcan.gc.ca/index-en.... In it, they unpacked the efforts from Statistics Canada to advance tracking and reporting on its indicators and ways that communities are contributing to the well-being of Canadians.

Speakers:
Bill Yang, Centre for Social Data Insights and Innovation, Statistics Canada (https://www.statcan.gc.ca/)
Craig Joyce, Centre for Social Data Insights and Innovation, Statistics Canada
Heather Keam, Tamarack Institute (https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/)
Prachir Pasricha, Tamarack Institute

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Overview of webinar:

0:00 Introduction, land acknowledgement and African ancestral acknowledgement (Prachir Pasricha)

02:00 Introduction to speakers (Prachir Pasricha, Craig Joyce)

05:07 Overview of the Statistics Canada Presentation (Craig Joyce)

06:33 The global origins of the Quality of Life Framework -- "Beyond GDP" thinking (Craig Joyce)

10:03 The domestic origins of the Quality of Life Framework (Craig Joyce)

13:34 Architecture of the framework and indicators (Prosperity, Health, Society, environment, Good Governments) (Craig Joyce)

17:39 Efforts around disaggregated data (Craig Joyce)

20:44 Global interest in Quality of Live and Well-Being statistics (Craig Joyce)

Resources available to for those doing work on Quality of Life

23:14 Quality of Life Hub (Bill Yang)

25:12 The Community Toolkit pamphlet (Bill Yang)

26:09 Municipal Quality of Life Dashboard (Bill Yang)

26:58 Other Products (Bill Yang)

29:15 Measuring and Advancing Quality of Life and Well-Being in Communities (Heather Keam)

33:24 Communities Contributing to Quality of Life in Canada (Heather Keam)

35:13 Example 1: Communities Building Youth Futures (Heather Keam)

36:03 Example 2: Territorial Youth Strategy in the Yukon (Heather Keam)

37:15 Example 3: Seven Impacts from Making Community and Belonging Essential (Heather Keam)

40:35 Question 1, from a participant: Who do you consider as the mean user of the Quality of Life framework? (Prachir Pasricha, Craig Joyce, Heather Keam)

44:37 Question 2, from a participant: I have How do you gather this data from people who can’t fill out a traditional survey or interview? (For example, they are non-verbal, they are hard to reach, they don’t trust the government to collect data, etc.) (Prachir Pasricha, Craig Joyce, Heather Keam)

49:10 Question 3, from participants: How can communities use the existing Quality of Life Index to track social well-being and inclusion in their own areas? If there can be a call to action from the national or federal level regarding municipal-level data collection and community belonging work, what would it be? (Prachir Pasricha, Craig Joyce, Heather Keam)

53:19 Question 4, from participants: Has any work been done with provincial initiatives, such as Engage Nova Scotia? Are you seeing or getting buy-in from the provincial level on using these frameworks?

56:00 Closing remarks (Prachir Pasricha)