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Measuring Social Capital in Hamilton, Ontario
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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