Where the full record sits
The complete record is published as a set of standalone PDF documents — the record of November 2026 — each carrying its own title page, byline, and sources, and each unchanged by this page.
Use and cite
Version: November 2026. The eight documents below are the frozen record of November 2026; this page presents them and changes nothing in them. The full paper download throughout this page is the study — the Reader's Edition, 29 pages.
The reading volume · 66 pages
The State of Youth in Toronto — the reading volume: the study and the Toronto Youth Alignment Plan in one continuous read, opened by the scorecard and the companion.
Download PDFThe scorecard · 1 page
The verdict page: seven areas of young people's lives, rated in plain language. It opens the reading volume, and it also circulates on its own.
Download PDFThe brief · 4 pages
The State of Youth in Toronto — in brief: what each rating rests on, the response, and the accountability gap, in the ten-minute read.
Download PDFThe study · 29 pages
The State of Youth in Toronto: the flagship study — the conditions, the response, and the accountability gap, Parts 01–03 as published.
Download PDFThe companion · 1 page
What a youth scorecard would need: the four published measures. It opens the reading volume with the scorecard, and it travels with the brief.
Download PDFThe Toronto Youth Alignment Plan · 33 pages
The proposal as its own document: a guaranteed after-school system for Toronto, costed — with its own cover, contents, and sources.
Download PDFThe Technical Appendix · 90 pages
The full technical record behind the study: chapters 1–20, methods, what is not published, and the complete Toronto youth census register. The study's evidence volume.
Download PDFThe master volume · 160 pages
The complete set in one volume — the scorecard, the brief, the study, the plan, the companion, and the appendix: the citation and archival master.
Download PDFThe open data set · CSV · 90 rows
The measures and the after-school ledger behind this page, as data: every row carries its value, its basis, its age band, its geography, its period and its source.
Download CSVThe full program-by-program census register behind this set — about sixty programs — is not part of the open download. It is available on request through the feedback form below.
Suggested citation: Shariff, S. (2026). The State of Youth in Toronto: What Toronto's published record can — and cannot — tell us about its young people. Independent report. Toronto, Canada.
Feedback and corrections
Two things are invited here. First, your view of the proposal — the Toronto Youth Alignment Plan at the Solution stop: whether the model is right, what is missing, and what would break. Second, the record itself: corrections to figures, and published sources this record has missed, remain welcome and are treated as first-class. Use the form — no email address is published on this page.