Category: Data visualization

One of the interesting things that came out of my research into the results of the Canadian Legal Problems Survey is how people pursue different courses of action to resolve their legal problems and how the different courses of action interact.

Here is a graph of the frequency of course of action and and how actions co-occur. The actions are ordered from left to right in order of how helpful people found the action to be.

You can see an accessible and animated version of the graph with data available for download here.

On April 4, 2023, I published an article in the Canadian Bar Association’s National magazine titled “Are 80% of legal problems in Canada really going unmet?” It explores the question of whether people’s needs are being me in Canada’s legal system based on the data in the Canadian Legal Problems Survey.

One topic I wanted more insight on was what the sources of costs for people with legal problems that caused financial hardship are. Here is a visualization of the proportion of people reporting costs associated with each category for the 2.6 million Canadians who have financial difficulties associated with their legal problems in a year:

Here is a dynamic and accessible version with downloadable data.

(The English version is here)

Voici la version française de l’infographie que nous avons publiée en anglais plus tôt cette semaine et qui illustre les impacts des problèmes juridiques sur la santé au Canada. Vous pouvez voir une version accessible et animée ici.

Nous serions heureux de discuter des histoires que vos données pourraient raconter !