Don Kerr is a social demographer who teaches in the Department of Sociology at Kings University College of the University of Western Ontario. 

Publications

Forthcoming.  Don Kerr and Hugh Mellon.  Energy, Population and the Environment: Exploring Canada's Record on CO2 Emissions and Energy Use Relative to Other OECD Countries.  Population and Environment

2011. Don Kerr and Roderic Beaujot. Aboriginal Demography. Pp. 149-188 in David Long and Olive Patricia Dickason (eds). Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues. Toronto: Oxford University Press.

2011.  Jianye Liu, Don Kerr and Roderic Beaujot. Children and Youth. Pp. 253-274 in B. Edmonston and E. Fong (eds.)  Canada's Population Situation. McGill Queen's University Press.

2011.  Roderic Beaujot, Jianye Liu and Don Kerr.  Low Income Status by Population Groups, 1961-2001. Pp. 99-117 in E. Fong and B. Edmonston (eds.) Canada's Population Situation. McGill Queen's University Press.

2010. Donna Maynard and Don Kerr.  British Columbia's Longevity Advantage. Canadian Journal of Regional Science 32(3): 361-376.

2010.  Don Kerr and Hugh Mellon.  Immigration and Voter Parity in Canada.  Radical Statistics 101: 10-23.

2010. Don Kerr and Hugh Mellon. Demographic Change and Representation by Population in the Canadian House of Commons.  Canadian Studies in Population 37(1): 53-75.

2010.  Don Kerr and Joseph Michalski. "Family poverty in Canada: correlates, coping strategies and consequences." In David Cheal (ed). Canadian Families Today.  2nd Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press.

2009.  Don Kerr.  Review Essay: City Survivors: Bringing Up Children in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods, by Anne Power.  Journal of Comparative Family Studies 40(1) Winter.

 

2008. Don Kerr and Roderic Beaujot. Population and Environmental Sustainability: Canadian Considerations. Environments 35 (2)81-92.

 

2007.  Roderic Beaujot and Don Kerr. Emerging Youth Transition Patterns in Canada, Investing in Youth: Evidence from Policy, Practice and Research. Policy Research Initiative, Ottawa.
 

2007. Roderic Beaujot and Don Kerr (eds.) Changing Face of Canada: Essential Readings in Population.  Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press. 

2007. Don Kerr and Joseph Michalski. Family Structures and Children's Behavioral Problems: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis. Canadian Journal of Sociology 32(1): 56-75.

2007.  Don Kerr and Roderic Beaujot. "Population Change into the 21st Century." Pp. 13-24 in The Changing Face of Canada: Essential Readings in Population. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press.

2007.  Donna Maynard and Don Kerr. "From Pre-contact to the Present: The Demography of Aboriginal Peoples to Canada." Pp. 297-310 in The Changing Face of Canada: Essential Readings in Population. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press.

2007.  Roderic Beaujot and Don Kerr. "Population Change and Policy Implications." Pp. 329-338 in The Changing Face of Canada: Essential Readings in Population. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press.

2006. Peter Ibbott, Don Kerr and Roderic Beaujot.  Probing the Future of Mandatory Retirement in Canada.  Canadian Journal on Aging 25(2):161-178.

2006. Don Kerr, Melissa Moyser and Roderic Beaujot. Marriage and Cohabitation in Canada: Demographic and Socioeconomic Differences in Quebec and Canada".  Canadian Studies in Population 33(1): 83-117.

2006.  Don Kerr.  "The evolving family arrangements of Canada's children: consequences for child poverty and child outcomes."  In Kevin McQuillan and Zenaida R. Ravanera (eds).  Family Transformation, Social Capital and Social Cohesion. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

2006.  Don Kerr.  "Child Mortality." In M. Odekon (ed). Encyclopedia of World Poverty.  Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications.

2005. Kerr, Don and Roderic Beaujot. " Demographic Change and Mandatory Retirement" in C. T. (Terry) Gillin, David MacGregor and Thomas R. Klassen (eds.)  Time's Up! Mandatory Retirement in Canada. Toronto: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers.

2005. Kerr, Don and Joseph Michalski. "Family Structures and Children's Behavioral Problems: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis." XXV International Union for the Scientific Study of Population General Conference Proceedings. CD-ROM Edition. Tours France: the IUSSP.

2004.  Roderic Beaujot and Don Kerr.  Population Change in Canada.  Toronto: Oxford University Press.

2004. Eric Guimond, Don Kerr and Roderic Beaujot. Charting the Growth of Canada's Aboriginal Populations: Problems, Options and Implications. Canadian Studies in Population 31(1): 33-53.

2004.  Don Kerr. Family Transformations and the Well-Being of Children: Recent Evidence from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Children and Youth.  Journal of Comparative Family Studies 35(1):73-89.

2003.  Don Kerr.  An Alternative Approach to Evaluating and Generating Population Estimates. Genus LIX(3): 71-89.

2003.  Jianye Liu and Don Kerr.  Family Change and the Economic Well-Being of Recent Immigrants to Canada.  International Migration 41(4):113-140.

2003.  Don Kerr and Roderic Beaujot.  Child Poverty and Family Structure in Canada, 1981-1997.  Journal of Comparative Family Studies 34(3): 321-335.

2003.  Don Kerr, Eric Guimond and Mary Jane Norris.  "Perils and Pitfalls of Aboriginal Demography: Lessons Learned from the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Projections" in Jerry White, Paul Maxim and Dan Beavon (eds.)  Aboriginal Conditions: The Research Foundations for Public Policy.  Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

2003.  Don Kerr.  Review Essay:  Human Population Dynamics: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives. Canadian Journal of Sociology 28(4).

2002.  Don Kerr and Roderic Beaujot .  Family Relations, Low Income and Child Outcomes: A Comparison of Canadian Children in Intact, Step and Female Lone Parent Families.  International Journal of Comparative Sociology 43(2):134-152.

2001.  Don Kerr and Alain Belanger.  "Family Change and the Economic Well-being of Pre-school Age Children."  Report on the Demographic Situation in Canada 2000: Current Demographic Analysis.  Statistics Canada.  Catalogue no. 91-209-XPE.

2000.  Rejean Lachapelle and Don Kerr. A New Demographic Approach to Population Adjustment. Survey Methodology   Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 43-52.

1998.  Kerr, Don. Alternate Methodologies in the Evaluation of Census Coverage: Canada, the United States, Britain and Australia. Demographic Document Series, no. 5. Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 91F0015MPF, Ottawa, Ontario.

1997. Kerr, Don and Denis Morrissette. 1997 Census Coverage Evaluation and Demographic Analysis, Canadian Studies in Population, Vol. 24( 1): 27-43.

1997. Rowe, Geoff and Don Kerr. "The Use of Demographic Methods in the Evaluation of Coverage in the Canadian Census." Studies in Applied Demography , K.V.Rao (ed.), Population and Society Research Centre, Bowling Green, Ohio.

1995.  Kerr, Don and Nelson Kopustus.  Projections of Households and Families for Canada, Provinces and Territories, 1993-2016. Statistics Canada, Catalogue 91-522. Ministry of Supply and Services Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

1994.  Kerr, Don and Bali Ram. Population Dynamics in Canada. Scarborough: Prentice Hall Canada Inc.

1994.  Kerr, Don, Daniel Larriveé and Patricia Greenhalgh. Children and Youth: An Overview. Scarborough: Prentice Hall Canada Inc.

 

Technical Reports and Working Documents

2003.  Statistics Canada.  Population and Family Estimation Methods at Statistics Canada.  Demography Division.  Catalogue no. 91-528.  (chapters 1 and 2).

2000.  Statistics Canada.  Annual Demographic Statistics.  Demography Division.  Catalogue no. 91-213-XPB.  (Part of methodological appendix).

1998. R. Lachapelle and D. Kerr. “Direct Estimates Evaluation: A Decomposition of Closure Error.”  Report prepared by Demography Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

1998. R. Lachapelle and D. Kerr.  “Reverse Record Check Estimates of Demographic Growth.” Report prepared by Demography Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

1998. R. Lachapelle and D. Kerr. “Coverage Studies Evaluation Using Demographic Estimates.” Report prepared by Demography Division, Statistics Canada.

1998. D. Kerr. “Returning Emigrants and Temporarily Abroad: Adjustment for Net Undercount, 1996.” Report prepared by Demography Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

1997. D. Kerr  “Comparisons of the 1996 Census with Postcensal Estimates, Canada, Provinces and Territories.”  Report prepared by Demography Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

1995. C. Dionne and D. Kerr “Alternate Techniques for Evaluating Census Counts: Methodological Proposals and Applications.”  Report prepared by Demography Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

1995. C. Dionne and D. Kerr  “Use of Intergenerational Approach for Adjusting Census Counts: Methodological Proposals and Applications.”  Report prepared by Demography Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

1995. M.J. Norris, D. Kerr and F. Nault  “Projections of the Aboriginal Population Identity Population in Canada , 1991-2016.”  Report prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Ottawa, Ontario.

1995. D. Kerr, A. Siggner and J.P. Bourdeau. “ Canada 's Aboriginal Population, 1981-1991.”  Report prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Ottawa, Ontario.