A search for a measure of the quality of life on Prince Edward Island : an inter-provincial ‘cost of living’ inquiry
Can one come up with the ‘hard science’ to show that part of the enviable ‘quality of life’ in certain provinces in Canada has to do with the differential ‘purchasing power’ of their residents? Although the mean level of earnings/income per annum is lower/higher in certain provinces than others, (an...
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ftunivmalta:oai:www.um.edu.mt:123456789/19617 2023-05-15T18:03:27+02:00 A search for a measure of the quality of life on Prince Edward Island : an inter-provincial ‘cost of living’ inquiry Baldacchino, Godfrey Funk, Matt 2008 https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/19617 en eng RePEc Baldacchino, G., & Funk, M. (2008). A search for a measure of the quality of life on Prince Edward Island: an inter-provincial ‘cost of living’ inquiry. In Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island (Eds.), A publication of the Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island (pp. 1-23). Canada: Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island. 9780919013582 https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/19617 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. Quality of life Cost and standard of living Island life Prince Edward Island (Prince Edward Islands) report 2008 ftunivmalta 2021-10-16T18:08:42Z Can one come up with the ‘hard science’ to show that part of the enviable ‘quality of life’ in certain provinces in Canada has to do with the differential ‘purchasing power’ of their residents? Although the mean level of earnings/income per annum is lower/higher in certain provinces than others, (and such mean earnings may be lower in the rural areas than in the urban ones), yet expenditures and overall costs of consumption may be lower/higher. Various persons think they are; and various others think they aren’t, and neither party appears (so far) to have come up with systematic statistics to back their position or refute the alternative: usage of data is sketchy, anecdotal and fragmented, at best. Thus, by way of example, lot or property purchases and rents, gas bills, professional services, and University tuition costs on Prince Edward Island are presumably amongst the lowest, if not the lowest, in the country. But so are average wages. Moreover, the cost of food, white goods, as well as the levels of provincial taxation, is presumably higher. The fuel/gas bill has also been getting increasingly higher these past couple of years. This very focused study will come up with a measure of the cost of living, or ‘household financial health’, and use this to compare the state of affairs in the various provinces of Canada. N/A Report Prince Edward Islands Prince Edward Island University of Malta: OAR@UM Canada |
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Can one come up with the ‘hard science’ to show that part of the enviable ‘quality of life’ in certain provinces in Canada has to do with the differential ‘purchasing power’ of their residents? Although the mean level of earnings/income per annum is lower/higher in certain provinces than others, (and such mean earnings may be lower in the rural areas than in the urban ones), yet expenditures and overall costs of consumption may be lower/higher. Various persons think they are; and various others think they aren’t, and neither party appears (so far) to have come up with systematic statistics to back their position or refute the alternative: usage of data is sketchy, anecdotal and fragmented, at best. Thus, by way of example, lot or property purchases and rents, gas bills, professional services, and University tuition costs on Prince Edward Island are presumably amongst the lowest, if not the lowest, in the country. But so are average wages. Moreover, the cost of food, white goods, as well as the levels of provincial taxation, is presumably higher. The fuel/gas bill has also been getting increasingly higher these past couple of years. This very focused study will come up with a measure of the cost of living, or ‘household financial health’, and use this to compare the state of affairs in the various provinces of Canada. N/A |
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Baldacchino, G., & Funk, M. (2008). A search for a measure of the quality of life on Prince Edward Island: an inter-provincial ‘cost of living’ inquiry. In Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island (Eds.), A publication of the Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island (pp. 1-23). Canada: Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island. 9780919013582 https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/19617 |
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