Comparative analysis of the socioeconomic characteristics of foreign and native born farmers in two areas of British Columbia. ...

• Main Author: Rubidge, Nicholas Andrew
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2011
• Subjects: Peace River
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0093279; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0093279

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent that birthplace influences the socio-economic characteristics or the usage of sources of information in samples of farmers from two areas of British Columbia. Two areas of divergent farm types namely the Peace River and South Okanagan areas were chosen for analysis from the sixteen areas surveyed by the ARDA Canada Land Inventory Project in British Columbia. Interview schedules completed in 1967 and 1968 surveys of these areas were used as the source of data. Excluded were all those respondents who sold less than $250 worth of agricultural goods produced on the land they occupied. The Peace River sample consisted of 112 farmers of whom 27.7 percent were foreign born while the South Okanagan sample consisted of 61 farmers of whom 50.8 percent were not born in Canada. The majority of the statistically significant differences in distribution of the socio-economic characteristics and use of information sources among the groups by birthplace of the Peace River ...