The final result !?
6. Methedological and Operational problems....
The final result !?
Many of the problems that occured during the creation of this project, I have already mentioned. So I will summarize shortly the most important points:
- The first problem was getting data, because the 2001 census is not yet available. With the 2001 census data an analysis could be far more accurate than with the small data sample I included in my project.
- The question why the refugees were actually settled in the two cities Abbotsford and Surrey arose from my analysis. Due to common sense, a high unemployment rate and high rents do not make a place very suitable for refugees with very few money and so I still weighted these factors as very important in my analysis. I had to disregard my first plan, to weight the factors due to the results of my analysis of Abbotsford and Surrey.
- Also the data I could get did not always relate directly to the question I wanted to ask. For Example, I wanted to find out the industrial profile of the cities in the beginning, but I could only get data about the labour force divisions, which do not directly relate to my question. Furthermore, grouping and reclassifying the data, took away the accuracy.
ConclusionI think this project is, despite its shortcomings concerning the result, very interesting and could be extended with the 2001 census data, even on a lower level than "CSD". There could also be more factors included, e.g. the distribution of schools and the availability of post-secondary education, regarding the possiblity, that the refugees' "average former job" was really in educational services.
The fact that resettlement of refugees is influenced by more factors, than those that can be measured with census data, made coming up with factors and doing an analysis very difficult. I do have a final result, but what does it tell me? Aren't for example politics more important for the choice of a location, than the average age of the cities' population? And how can factors like that be measured and converted into a map? So the result of my analysis has many shortcomings, but the problems that occured can tell more about the whole project, than the actual result of "Port Hardy".
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