Journal article
Measuring Social Capital in Hamilton, Ontario
Abstract
Social capital has been studied by academics for more than 20 years and within the past decade there has been an explosion of growth in research linking social capital to health. This paper investigates social capital in Hamilton, Ontario by way of a telephone survey of 1,002 households in three neighbourhood groups representing high, mixed and low socio-economic status (SES). A Social Capital Measurement Tool is proposed as a straightforward …
Authors
Kitchen P; Williams A; Simone D
Journal
Social Indicators Research, Vol. 108, No. 2, pp. 215–238
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
September 2012
DOI
10.1007/s11205-012-0063-3
ISSN
0303-8300