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Selected income concepts by main family types
	2005				2006
	Market income	Government transfers	Income taxes	After-tax income	Market income	Government transfers	Income taxes	After-tax income
	median (2006 constant dollars)
Economic families, two persons or more	58,800	4,000	8,700	57,100	59,600	4,500	9,000	58,300
Senior families	22,600	22,400	3,000	41,200	23,300	22,600	2,800	42,400
Non-senior couples without children	65,000	200	10,600	56,800	65,400	700	10,500	57,900
Two-parent families with children	74,200	2,800	11,800	67,000	74,900	3,300	12,000	67,900
Female lone-parent families	22,600	6,900	500	30,900	23,100	7,400	700	31,700
Unattached individuals	18,400	500	2,000	21,800	18,900	600	2,100	22,800

Low income rates (1992 base after-tax income LICO¹) by main family types

1996

1998

2000

2002

2004

2005

2006

Economic families, two persons or more

12.1

10.1

9.0

8.6

8.0

7.4

7.0

Senior families

3.3

3.9

3.1

2.9

2.1

1.6

2.3

Non-senior couples without children

8.4

6.7

6.9

7.1

6.4

5.7

Two-parent families with children

10.8

8.6

8.3

6.6

6.9

6.7

6.6

Female lone-parent families

52.7

42.9

36.3

39.4

36.0

29.1

28.2

Unattached individuals

37.2

35.2

32.9

29.5

30.1

30.4

29.2

1.	(LICO) Low-income cutoff.

Percentage of persons in low income (1992 base after-tax income LICO¹)

1996

1998

2000

2002

2004

2005

2006

Persons under 18 years old

18.5

15.5

13.8

12.3

13.0

11.7

11.3

In two-parent families

12.4

9.9

9.5

7.4

8.4

7.8

7.7

In female lone-parent families

55.8

46.1

40.1

43.0

40.4

33.4

32.3

Person 18 to 64 years old

15.7

14.0

12.9

12.1

11.9

11.4

11.3

Person 65 and over

9.8

8.6

7.6

5.6

6.1

5.4

1.	(LICO) Low-income cutoff.

Selected income concepts for economic families of two persons or more by province, 2006
	Market income	Government transfers	Income taxes	After-tax income	After-tax low-income rate
	median (2006 constant dollars)				%
Canada	59,600	4,500	9,000	58,300	7.0
Newfoundland and Labrador	38,700	12,300	6,300	45,800	4.9
Prince Edward Island	46,500	9,400	7,100	50,000	2.9
Nova Scotia	52,300	5,500	8,200	51,600	4.5
New Brunswick	43,700	7,400	6,200	47,600	6.4
Quebec	51,800	6,700	8,200	51,500	7.1
Ontario	64,600	4,000	9,700	62,400	7.7
Manitoba	56,800	3,500	8,600	53,900	7.9
Saskatchewan	59,100	3,100	8,900	55,900	7.0
Alberta	76,300	3,000	11,400	70,500	4.0
British Columbia	61,700	3,300	8,000	60,300	8.4