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Sociology of Men & masculinities

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Fact & Figures

What is HARDEST to find?

1. The number of homeless men in Canada

    

2. Number of suicides for Canadian men over the last decade, and how these compare to murders as a cause of death.
    

3. The proportion of Canadian families with the dad as the stay-at-home parent in 2015 vs. 1976

What is HARDEST to find?

1. The number of homeless men in Canada ​is impossible to definitively determine

• Enumerating the homeless is extremely difficult, if not impossible. See homelesshub.ca and Library of Parliament Research Report 

• Stats Can  provides info on shelters in its 2011 and 2016 census and Publications Canada offers a National Shelter Study

• Many local counts take place in cities, though methods are not consistent or standardized. See Montreal Homeless Count

answer:

What is HARDEST to find?

more answers:

• Suicide rates for Canadian men over the last decade, and how these compare to murder rates
  see CANSIM: Leading causes of death
   

• The proportion of Canadian families with the dad as the stay-at-home parent in 2015 vs. 1976
  see Stats Can Father's Day article

can you trust the facts & figures reported in news sources ?

answer:

You  should not simply trust, and must not simply cite, the facts and figures reported in news sources in and of themselves.

Always try to find the report or survey cited in the news story.

Example of a news story with NO sources cited:
CTV News Key Statistics on Homelessness

See also: Fake News -or Is it?   International library guidelines

can you trust wikipedia?

answer:

You  should not simply trust, and must not simply cite, the facts and figures reported on Wikipedia.

The same applies for any other web site with which you are not already familiar, and which you have not properly evaluated. 

See : Evaluating Information -- the CRAAP test

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