Final report - Integrated Land Management Bureau

Indicator suggested at workshop Rationale for not including them in final
recommended list
Discrimination that First Nations people
experience in the mainstream society
Number of Band members with post secondary
training who live on reserve as ratio of total
number of band members with post secondary
training
Number of students enrolled in adult basic
education
Does not meet Criteria 3: “Comparability over
time. Are there other indicators better suited for
comparability over time?”
(Rationale: This concept can be measured
through indicators relating to trust and are best
measured at the local community level, rather
than a plan area scale that will generalize over
the plan area).
Does not meet Criteria 9: “Is the indicator
sensitive to changes in the outcome, but
relatively unaffected by other changes?”
(Rationale: Doesn’t account for Band
members who live off reserve who take
training. In that case, the training doesn’t
directly affect the community).
Criteria 8: “Is the desirable direction of the
indicator obvious (up or down)?”
(Rationale: An increase in adult basic
education could be considered either a positive
or negative indicator for education. If the
number of students enrolled in adult basic
education increases, it could mean that fewer
are graduating from high school).
Informal sources of income Does not meet Criteria 7: “Where there are no
existing data available at the appropriate scale
and boundary overlap is a problem, is primary
data collection logistically possible and
affordable to measure this indicator? and
Criteria 3: Comparability over time. Are there
other indicators better suited for comparability
over time?”
(Rationale: Difficult and expensive to measure.
Would require individual interviews or surveys
to community members to inventory informal
sources of income. Reliability of results could
be questionable (under-reporting).
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