As the first Filipino monitor for Elections Canada's Environmental Monitoring Centre that tracks user and media sentiment in the Canadian media ecosystem, I spearheaded two separate research efforts, one for the general Filipino Canadian community, and the other for the Ilocano Language community in Canada. While the primary objective is to better understand both communities' media presence as well as keywords pertaining to elections and democracy, I took the extra step of conducting two demographic research efforts to complement the main research efforts. These projects can be of use to the agency if they seek to better understand both the general Filipino community and Ilocano-speaking community, and better understand how their demographic characteristics could potentially be tied to their media presence and sentiment on electoral administration in Canada.
Main R script: PROFILE OF THE FILIPINO CANADIAN COMMUNITY (BY ELECTORAL DISTRICTS).R
Full project with README and relevant files: Brief Demographic Snapshot of the Filipino Canadian Community (Using R)
IDEs Used: RStudio
R Version: rstudio-2024.12.0
Libraries: data.table, funModeling, Hmisc, ggplot2, sf, dplyr, corrplot, CatEncoders
Executive Summary:
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Ilocano and Cebuano remain the dominant secondary Philippine-based language (i.e., non-Tagalog) used by the Filipino community based on the number of ridings where either or were identified as the most-used Philippine language in the 2021 Census.
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The correlation analysis showed that Filipino presence (i.e., % of census respondents in a riding that identified as Filipino) is most strongly correlated with the % of recent immigrants (i.e., immigrated between 2016-2021) (0.37) followed by French language use (-0.34)
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Four choropleth maps were created for this analysis, but the map that stood out the most was the choropleth map showing the growth rate of the Filipino population by riding between 2016-2021, with Eastern Canada showing a comparatively high growth rate compared to the rest of Canada.
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Main R script: interactive_map.R
Optional deployment R script: interactive_map.R
Full project with README and relevant files: Ilocano Language Community in Canada Dashboard
IDEs Used: RStudio
R Version: 4.4.1
Libraries: DT, dplyr, readr, ggplot2, plotly, sf, tidyr, ggpmisc, shiny, shinydashboard
Executive Summary:
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An interesting finding was that Ilocano settlement in Montreal (specifically the Mount Royal riding) is more prominent than they in Winnipeg, the city with the highest per-capita Filipino population in Canada.
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It was also observed that the Ilocano-speaking communities in most major cities were growing at a much faster rate that the Tagalog-speaking communities (although it is unlikely that they will overtake Tagalog speaker in terms of raw numbers).
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Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories have the potential to be an important hub for the Ilocano community in Canada (due to a high growth rate in Saskatchewan's case, and a high per-capita Ilocano population in Alberta and the Northwest Territories' case).
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