Core Target 6: Social Condition

Where BC Ranks, Provincial Comparison

Core Target Six is based on an average of the province's ranking across five performance indicators (PI 22-PI 26): the percent of families and unattached individuals with income below the after-tax low income cut-off (LICO), the low birth-weight rate, the personal and property crime rate, the percent of the population on income assistance, and the percent of total unemployment designated as long-term.

BC had the worst personal and property crime rate. It had the second to last rank for LICO, and the sixth in overall social condition. BC had middling performance on long-term unemployment (sixth, 2007) and performed relatively well on low birth weight rate (third, 2006) and income assistance (second, 2006).

The only improvement BC recorded was from seventh to sixth in long-term unemployment. BC's social condition improvement in 2006 reflects previous improvements that brought the province close to those with higher ranks coupled with the small improvement noted above and deteriorating ranks in other provinces.

Why It's Important Social Condition measures provide an indication of a jurisdiction's inequality, security and incentives.

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