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The Community Well-Being Index (CWB) is a tool developed by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) to track and compare well-being in First Nations, Inuit, and other Canadian communities.
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AANDC (formerly known as Indian Affairs and Northern Development Canada or INAC) developed the CWB as a community-level complement to its national- and regional-level Registered Indian Human Development Index (Cooke & Beavon, 2007), which was based on the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI) (Cooke & Beavon, 2007).
The CWB is designed to monitor the well-being of Canadian communities reliably across time, to compare well-being in Aboriginal communities and other Canadian communities, to identify prosperous and challenged Aboriginal communities, and to facilitate research on the determinants of community well-being.
Communities are defined in terms of census subdivisions (CSDs). CSDs are municipalities or...
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O’Sullivan, E., Senécal, S. (2014). Aboriginal Community Well-Being Index. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_3740
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