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Chapter III: Methodology
In order to obtain a general picture of the socioeconomic status (SES) of the participating
students, SES was established by cross-referencing each participating school's postal code in the
Canada's 2001 Census Postal Code Table and retrieving the Census tract name (CTNAME) or
the community in which the school was located from the Canadian Census Analyzer (Refs:
http://datacentre.chass.utoronto.ca). Each CTNAME was then entered separately in the 2001
Profile for Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2001
Census to retrieve the SES information for every neighbourhood that each participating school
was situated in (http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01; http://data.library.ubc.ca/ (data
product: Census 2001).
Participants attended schools in communities that contained on average middle to higher
income families. 9 According to Canadian census track data for average family income
(http://datacentre.chass.utoronto.ca, 2006; http://www12.statca.ca, 2006), the range of the
socioeconomic status (SES) 19 for the communities in which each school was located spanned
from $76,000 to $107,000.
Table 3
Table 3 presents the distribution of participants by ethnicity.
Sample Ethnicity (N = 332)
Ethnicity
White ^ 35.3%
Non-White ^ 64.7%
Note. Sample size varies as a function of missing information, Ethnicity, N = 320.
9 Average market income and median earnings by economic family types were based on the 2000
Canadian Census (http://www40.statcan.ca/101cst01/famil22b.htm Retrieved May 13, 2008; Stats Canada —
Catalogue no.97-S63, [p.26]; J. Dobson, personal communication, May 9, 2008).
to Average family income was based on 20% of data of all families in the 2000 Canadian Census
(http://www12.statca.calenglishIcensus01/Products/Standard/profiles/RetrieveProfile.cfm..., 2006).
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