Transition Homes in Canada: National, Provincial and Territorial Fact Sheets, 2005/2006
Description:
The Transitional Home Survey (THS) is a biennial census of all residential facilities for female victims of domestic violence. Questionnaires are mailed to all shelters or agencies (eg. transition homes, second stage housing facilities, safe home networks, women's emergency centres, general emergency shelters, and family resource centres) known to provide residential services to abused women in every province and territory. However, shelters that do not provide services exclusively to women escaping domestic violence, such as general emergency shelters, are included in order to provide a more accurate picture of the facilities used by abused women. Information is collected on the characteristics of the facilities and the services provided during the previous 12 months (ie: April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006). Additionally, a snapshot day (April 19, 2006) is used to profile the women and children residing in the shelter on the given day. For the 2005/2006 Transition Home Survey, 553 shelters were contacted and responses were received from 486 or 88%. However, figures presented in the 2005/2006 THS Fact Sheets are representative of all 553 facilities, as an imputation procedure was used to replace missing data for non-respondants. The imputed data were tested for statistically significant differences from the data collected from respondents. The results from the test show that no statistically meaningful differenecs between the imputed and respondent data. This publication highlights findings from the Transition Home Survey at the national, provincial and territorial levels.
Type of Resource:
Fact Sheet
Publication Date:
2007
Location:
Ottawa