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Daily Bread Food Bank believes that research is critical to creating social change to reduce poverty. Because research is only meaningful if it is acted on and used, Daily Bread works to ensure that our findings are accessible and widely available to those who want to learn about the root causes of hunger and poverty in the GTA. Our research and publications are key tools in our work with government outreach and public education. Our publications represent work done by Daily Bread over the years to educate and engage the public and to push the government toward innovative and realistic policy solutions for hunger.

The Social Assistance Review Advisory Council (SARAC) was appointed by the Government of Ontario and had a two-fold mandate:

The council was chaired by Daily Bread Executive Director Gail Nyberg, and included Research Director Michael Oliphant. The full report was released in June 2010 and has recommendations for conducting a review of Ontario's income security system, focusing on six "strategies for reform". The short-term changes were originally submitted in February 2010. Four of the thirteen recommendations were announced by Minister Meilluer alongside the provincial budget in March 2010.

Beginning in fall 2007, Daily Bread Food Bank and the Caledon Institute of Social Policy teamed up to develop a “deprivation index.” A deprivation index is a list of items considered necessary to have an above poverty-level standard of living but which poor people are unlikely to have. Through a series of surveys and focus groups, we pared down an initial list of 29 items to 10 items for the index. Through the sponsorship of the Ontario Government, Statistics Canada conducted a survey of about 12,000 Ontario households to arrive at a baseline measure. The Ontario Deprivation Index was officially announced on December 2, 2009. It found that 12.5% of Ontario children are being raised in a poverty-level standard of living. This section contains relevant research reports and information on Canada’s first deprivation index.

This paper tells the story of the development of the Ontario Deprivation Index by the Daily Bread Food Bank and the Caledon Institute of Social Policy. A ‘deprivation index’ is a list of items which are widely seen as necessary for a household to have a standard of living above the poverty level.

This paper is a preliminary test of the validity of the Ontario Deprivation Index using the results of a Statistics Canada survey of 10,000 Ontario households. We look at the performance of the index against 6 variables: income, education, employment status, immigration, family type and housing tenure. A similar method for testing the validity of the new Irish deprivation index was also used, although in this paper we are presenting only the most basic tests. Based on this early analysis, the Ontario Deprivation Index fully meets the tests of validity in relation to these variables.

This short backgrounder contains a broad overview of the Ontario Deprivation Index. The link takes you to the Ontario Government’s web site.

This link takes you to the Ontario’ Government’s first Poverty Reduction Strategy report card.

Download a series of data tables for the Ontario Deprivation Index provided courtesy of Statistics Canada. The tables look at incidence of deprivation by immigrant status, region, income quintile, LICO and LIM-50.

Who's Hungry: Profile of Hunger in the GTA
The Who's Hungry report has come to be Daily Bread Food Bank's signature research publication. Daily Bread believes that in order to solve the problem of hunger and poverty, we have to understand it. Updated annually with results gathered from almost 2000 one on one food bank client interviews, Who's Hungry offers a quantitative and qualitative glimpse into the hunger crisis in the Greater Toronto Area.