Secondary Analyses of the SOLMP
Research team
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PIS. St-Onge (ICRML)
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Co-IE. Forgues (ICRML), A. Robineau (ICRML), C. Traisnel (U Moncton), S. Karunananthan (U Ottawa), P-M Desjardins (U Moncton), V. McIntyre (U Moncton), E.M. Doucet (U Moncton), F. Michelot (Concordia), N. Gallant (INRS), A. Burke-Saulnier (USA), G. Cormier (USB), N. Melanson Breau (U Moncton), É. Harvey (USA), L. Veronis (U Ottawa), J. Guignard Noël (ICRML)
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CollabJ-P. Corbeil (U Laval), R. Landry (U Moncton)
Funding agency
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Canadian Heritage ($65,293)Period: 2026-2028
Summary
Using data from the Survey on the Official-Language Minority Population (SOLMP), this research project will provide an updated portrait of the linguistic situation of Fran-cophone minority communities, nearly 20 years after the analysis conducted by the Ca-nadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities (CIRLM) using the 2006 Survey on the Vitality of Official-Language Minorities (SVOLM). The project will result in an open-access edited volume covering a range of topics, including immigration, the la-bour market, geographic mobility, arts and culture, media, health, community participa-tion, sense of belonging, perceived vitality, early childhood, and education.
The health chapter will examine the language used to communicate with healthcare pro-fessionals, the importance individuals place on receiving healthcare services in French, and the perceived difficulty of obtaining those services.
Comparative analyses will also be conducted across population subgroups (youth, wom-en, older adults, and immigrants), among Francophone minority communities, and be-tween the two post-censal surveys to document changes in their linguistic situation over time.