The Legal Problems of Everyday Life - The Nature, Extent and Consequences of Justiciable Problems Experienced by Canadians

Figure 6: Trigger Effects Among Problem Types

The flowchart consists of 10 text boxes that represent various problem types: employment, family (relationship breakdown), other family, consumer, debt, wills, police action, personal injury, legal action and discrimination. The diagram also shows directional arrows originating at the trigger problem and ending at the consequent problem. Each arrow is marked by a numerical value that indicates the number of times a problem of that type was reported as a trigger problem. Some of the text boxes have arrows that turn back on the themselves. These represent trigger and consequence linkages involving specific problems within problem categories. Employment problems showed the greatest number of trigger effects occurring within problem categories (90) while discrimination, other family and legal action show no trigger effects of this kind. Some of the text boxes are connected with directional arrows. These represent triggers and consequences between problem types. Employment problems as a trigger for debt showed the greatest number of trigger effects occurring between problem categories (18) while police action and wills showed no trigger effects of this kind. The body of the text contains a more detailed account of the linkages.