Abstracts
Abstract
Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) is examining options to offset the costs of remoteness for First Nations and provide a rationale for additional funding for remote communities. This article presents best practices for building a measure of remoteness as well as an analysis of measures of remoteness used in Canada and in Australia. An evaluation of the various measures of remoteness against the best practices determined that the Index of Remoteness developed by Statistics Canada in partnership with Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada is currently the most robust measure of remoteness available.
Keywords:
- Remoteness,
- Remoteness Index,
- Index of Remoteness,
- Measures of remoteness,
- Remote
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