A Socio-economic Review of the Impacts of Northwest Territories’ Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway 10

We investigate and project the likely socio-economic effects on the community of Tuktoyaktuk from completion of the all-season Highway 10 (the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway) in Northwest Territories, Canada. Prior to the highway’s completion, Tuktoyaktuk was connected to the rest of Canada by air, wint...

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Published in:Canadian Journal of Regional Science
Main Authors: Fellows, G. Kent, Munzur, Alaz, Winter, Jennifer
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Canadian Regional Science Association / Association canadienne des sciences régionales 2022
Subjects:
Remoteness
Agglomeration
Socio-Economic Outcomes
Infrastructure
Community Outcomes
Canada
Inuvik
Mackenzie River
Northwest Territories
Tuktoyaktuk
Mackenzie river
Online Access:http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1094686ar
https://doi.org/10.7202/1094686ar
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Summary:We investigate and project the likely socio-economic effects on the community of Tuktoyaktuk from completion of the all-season Highway 10 (the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway) in Northwest Territories, Canada. Prior to the highway’s completion, Tuktoyaktuk was connected to the rest of Canada by air, winter road, and the Mackenzie River in summer. Our analysis is based on estimated relationships between community remoteness and quantifiable socio-economic metrics using the recently developed Index of Remoteness and associated agglomeration data from Statistics Canada (Alasia et al. 2017). Most notable among our results is a statistically strong relationship between agglomeration and both the mean and distribution of household and family incomes, implying that Highway 10 increases incomes across the income distribution. We find similar evidence suggesting increased rates of high school completion. We find no statistically significant relationship between agglomeration and employment participation rates. There is a positive relationship for some forms of crime but no relationship for violent or property crime rates.

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