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Well, I got bored, so I pulled up Stats Canada's Community Profile of Napanee.

Interesting.

Apparently, the town has a bit of an issue with education. About 10% of the population has a University certificate, diploma or degree. 22% of the population over 20 does not have a high school graduation certificate. The percentage is higher than the provincial in each age bracket by a few points.

Men tend to be significantly less educated.

Religiously: all protestants. Well, 64%. 17% Catholic. 30 Jews (That's the number, not percentage). 10 Muslims (all men), 10 Buddhists (all women; hey, they should go out!), no pagans, wiccans, scientologists or Satanists. 60 Orthodox Christians (yes, yes, that includes me).

9% of the town's population is widowed, compared to six percent of the provincial populace. I blame this on the town's high concentration of seniors (19% vs 12.9% for the province). 7.2% of the population is divorced, compared to 6.5% of the province. A normal statistical anomaly? Who can tell, really. I don't know shit about this stuff.

The number of people in a single parent family is larger (2.7 compared to 2.5 for the province as a whole), except in single father families, where it's 2.2 to 2.5.

People in Napanee earn less than people in the rest of Ontario. Of course, a house costs $70K less than the provincial average. Government Transfers make up 16.4% of income in the town, as opposed to 9.8% for the rest of Ontario.

What does it all mean? It all means Napanee is the kind of place you come from.
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After the recovery of Cecilia Zhang, there was some discussion that centered around the stats proffered by missing children's groups that suggested thousands of missing children.

This week's editorial in Eye has a good examination of the stats they offered.

It's a good breakdown of the stats, and I think everyone needs to look at the theme: Kids aren't vanishing off the streets. Love them, protect them, street proof them. Don't terrorize them that every shadow holds a murderer. And don't do it to yourself, either.

In less depressing news, props to [livejournal.com profile] thespian for turning me onto Muppet Central. It is indeed time to play the music. And time to light the lights.

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