Category: Process of research
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Connecting the Circle: Participants’ Feedback on Diaries Phase 1 Research Results
September 2021 Researchers conducted a high-level review of the preliminary results to identify key themes or learnings from Phase One. We met (virtually) with a subset of the Phase 1 participants to present these themes and get their feedback. The purpose of the meeting was to give participants an opportunity to comment on the findings…
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Financial Exclusion and Gender Inequity Among Low-Income Women in Canada
April 2021 Efforts in recent decades to advance gender equality have succeeded in increasing women’s economic participation. There are still many barriers, however, experienced by low-income women that prevent them from achieving their own definitions of financial well-being. Barriers such as low-skilled precarious labour and the pressures of caregiving make accruing savings difficult, placing low-income…
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Video to promote CFD Phase Two
August 2021 Staff and phase one participants of the Canadian Financial Diaries research project discuss the benefits of participating in the diaries process. Phase One data are being analyzed and reported on now and phase two begins in September 2021. We are looking for people with low- and modest middle-income to participate in monthly meetings…
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Gender balance of the CFD phase 1 group
23 November 2020. Jerry Buckland and Jodi Dueck-Read, CFD Research Team. Recently we shared some preliminary results on some of the diaries participants’ finances. A phase I participant noted that the majority of the first cohort were women and asked why we thought that was the case? The team has thought about this quite a…
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Video explains purpose and process of diaries and introduces some staff and participants
Nov 2020 As research results from the diaries research project become available in the next few months we are pleased to share a video that explains how the diaries works, what is its purpose, and to introduce some of its staff and participants. The video presents insights about the following, – What is a financial…
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Phase 1 participants graduating and data collection nearing completion
Sep 2019 Starting in March 2019, and after one year of interviews, our participants from phase 1 of the Canadian financial diaries research project are beginning to graduate! Upon graduating we ask our participants what, if anything, they have learned during the process, and what recommendations they have for us to improve the process for…
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How did we undertake phase 1 of the diaries project?
September 2019. We are almost completed phase 1 of the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project. We are beginning to work with the data and we have compiled a summary of the process of research so far. It is documented in the report available here. This report provides an overview of the qualitative and quantitative methods…
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Financial practices of our diarists
Canadians with low and modest incomes follow a number of strategies to make their finances work. We identified a number of financial practices that some of our nearly 30 diarists habitually follow. You can read about them in this report.
Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project 