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  • 1. The assets, debts and net worth of Canadian families, 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024047
    Description: This infographic provides a snapshot of the net worth of Canadian families by province and family type in 2023. In addition, there's a focus on the most common asset and debt holdings of families. This infographic uses data from the 2023 Survey of Financial Security.
    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 2. Survey of Financial Security 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20243034267
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 3. Assets and debts held by economic family type, by age group, Canada, provinces and selected census metropolitan areas, Survey of Financial Security
    Table: 11-10-0016-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Assets and debts held by family units and by age groups, total amounts.
    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 4. Assets and debts by net worth quintile, Canada, provinces and selected census metropolitan areas, Survey of Financial Security
    Table: 11-10-0049-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    This table contains 58320 series, with data for years 1999 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (20 items: Canada; Atlantic; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...);  Assets and debts (27 items: Total assets; Private pension assets; Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs), Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIFs), Locked-in Retirement Accounts (LIRAs) and other; Employer-sponsored Registered Pension Plans (EPPs); ...);  Net worth quintiles (6 items: Total, all net worth quintiles; Lowest net worth quintile; Second net worth quintile; Middle net worth quintile; ...);  Statistics (6 items: Total values; Percentage of total assets or total debts; Number holding asset or debt; Percentage holding asset or debt; ...);  Confidence intervals (3 items: Estimate; Lower bound of a 95% confidence interval; Upper bound of a 95% confidence interval).

    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 5. Assets and debts by after-tax income quintile, Canada, provinces and selected census metropolitan areas, Survey of Financial Security
    Table: 11-10-0057-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    This table contains 58320 series, with data for years 1999 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (20 items: Canada; Atlantic; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...);  Assets and debts (27 items: Total assets; Private pension assets; Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs), Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIFs), Locked-in Retirement Accounts (LIRAs) and other; Employer-sponsored Registered Pension Plans (EPPs); ...);  After-tax income quintiles (6 items: Total, all after-tax income quintiles; Lowest after-tax income quintile; Second after-tax income quintile; Middle after-tax income quintile; ...);  Statistics (6 items: Total values; Percentage of total assets or total debts; Number holding asset or debt; Percentage holding asset or debt; ...);  Confidence intervals (3 items: Estimate; Lower bound of a 95% confidence interval; Upper bound of a 95% confidence interval).

    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 6. Selected assets and debts by net worth deciles, Survey of Financial Security
    Table: 11-10-0075-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Composition of assets (including Employer Pension Plans valued on a termination basis) and debts held by all family units, by net worth deciles, Canada and geographical regions of Canada.

    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 7. Selected assets and debts by after-tax income deciles, Survey of Financial Security
    Table: 11-10-0078-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Composition of assets (including Employer Pension Plans valued on a termination basis) and debts held by all family units, by after-tax income deciles, Canada and geographical regions of Canada.

    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 8. Percentage of persons who are asset resilient, Canada
    Table: 11-10-0082-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Percentage of persons who are asset resilience for at least one, three and six months, by age group, by family type, by national low income measure (LIM) and after-tax household income measure, Canada.

    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 9. Percentage of persons who are asset resilient, Canada and provinces
    Table: 11-10-0083-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Percentage of persons in asset resilience for at least one, three and six months, by age group and family type, by national low income measure (LIM) and after-tax household income measure, Canada and provinces.

    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 10. Study: Food insecurity among Canadian families 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202331837704
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-11-14
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  • 1. Assets and debts held by economic family type, by age group, Canada, provinces and selected census metropolitan areas, Survey of Financial Security
    Table: 11-10-0016-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Assets and debts held by family units and by age groups, total amounts.
    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 2. Assets and debts by net worth quintile, Canada, provinces and selected census metropolitan areas, Survey of Financial Security
    Table: 11-10-0049-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    This table contains 58320 series, with data for years 1999 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (20 items: Canada; Atlantic; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...);  Assets and debts (27 items: Total assets; Private pension assets; Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs), Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIFs), Locked-in Retirement Accounts (LIRAs) and other; Employer-sponsored Registered Pension Plans (EPPs); ...);  Net worth quintiles (6 items: Total, all net worth quintiles; Lowest net worth quintile; Second net worth quintile; Middle net worth quintile; ...);  Statistics (6 items: Total values; Percentage of total assets or total debts; Number holding asset or debt; Percentage holding asset or debt; ...);  Confidence intervals (3 items: Estimate; Lower bound of a 95% confidence interval; Upper bound of a 95% confidence interval).

    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 3. Assets and debts by after-tax income quintile, Canada, provinces and selected census metropolitan areas, Survey of Financial Security
    Table: 11-10-0057-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    This table contains 58320 series, with data for years 1999 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (20 items: Canada; Atlantic; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...);  Assets and debts (27 items: Total assets; Private pension assets; Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs), Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIFs), Locked-in Retirement Accounts (LIRAs) and other; Employer-sponsored Registered Pension Plans (EPPs); ...);  After-tax income quintiles (6 items: Total, all after-tax income quintiles; Lowest after-tax income quintile; Second after-tax income quintile; Middle after-tax income quintile; ...);  Statistics (6 items: Total values; Percentage of total assets or total debts; Number holding asset or debt; Percentage holding asset or debt; ...);  Confidence intervals (3 items: Estimate; Lower bound of a 95% confidence interval; Upper bound of a 95% confidence interval).

    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 4. Selected assets and debts by net worth deciles, Survey of Financial Security
    Table: 11-10-0075-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Composition of assets (including Employer Pension Plans valued on a termination basis) and debts held by all family units, by net worth deciles, Canada and geographical regions of Canada.

    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 5. Selected assets and debts by after-tax income deciles, Survey of Financial Security
    Table: 11-10-0078-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Composition of assets (including Employer Pension Plans valued on a termination basis) and debts held by all family units, by after-tax income deciles, Canada and geographical regions of Canada.

    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 6. Percentage of persons who are asset resilient, Canada
    Table: 11-10-0082-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Percentage of persons who are asset resilience for at least one, three and six months, by age group, by family type, by national low income measure (LIM) and after-tax household income measure, Canada.

    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 7. Percentage of persons who are asset resilient, Canada and provinces
    Table: 11-10-0083-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Percentage of persons in asset resilience for at least one, three and six months, by age group and family type, by national low income measure (LIM) and after-tax household income measure, Canada and provinces.

    Release date: 2024-10-29
  • 8. Survey of Financial Security: Public Use Microdata File
    Public use microdata: 13M0006X
    Description: The cross-sectional public-use microdata file for the Survey of Financial Security is a collection of income, assets, debts and wealth data on the economy of Canadian families. The production of this file includes many safeguards to prevent the identification of any one person or family.

    The file is produced at the economic family level with information on family demographics; income; financial behaviours and attitudes; principal residence; assets, debts and net worth; family composition and size; and, in years 2005 onward, the major income recipient. the major income recipient.

    Please see the user guide for more information.  

    Release date: 2021-08-31
  • 9. Survey of Financial Security (SFS), composition of assets and debts held by all family units, by net worth quintiles Archived
    Table: 11-10-0021-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Composition of assets (including Employer Pension Plans valued on a termination basis) and debts held by all family units, by net worth quintiles, Canada and provinces.

    Release date: 2018-04-13
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  • 11. Health and social challenges associated with the COVID-19 situation in Canada Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202009723525
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2020-04-06
  • 12. Homeownership, mortgage debt and types of mortgage among Canadian families Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X201900100012
    Description:

    A dream of many Canadians is to someday own their own home and most take on debt for that reason. This study uses data from the Survey of Financial Security to examine changes in homeownership rates and factors associated with homeownership, the proportion of families who had paid off the mortgage on their principal residence, and the amount of mortgage debt owed by families who had a mortgage. The study also provides information on the types of mortgage rates on the principal residence (fixed rate, variable rate or a combination of both).

    Release date: 2019-08-08
  • 13. Study: Homeownership, mortgage debt and types of mortgage among Canadian families 1999 to 2016 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201922020843
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2019-08-08
  • 14. What do we know about homeownership and mortgage debt in Canada? Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2019054
    Description:

    A dream of many Canadians is to someday own their own home. Canadians work hard to achieve this goal and most take on debt for that reason. Using data from the Survey on Financial Security, this infographic describes trends in homeownership and mortgage debt from 1999 to 2016.

    Release date: 2019-08-08
  • 15. Debt and financial distress among Canadian families Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X201900100010
    Description:

    This study uses data from the 2016 Survey of Financial Security to examine financial distress indicators for Canadian families. Three financial distress indicators are examined: the proportion of Canadian families who skipped or delayed a mortgage payment, the proportion who skipped or delayed a non-mortgage payment and the proportion who borrowed money through a payday loan. This paper also examines the factors associated with financial distress among Canadians, with a particular focus on their debt level.

    Release date: 2019-06-26
  • 16. Study: Debt and financial distress among Canadian families Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201917720485
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2019-06-26
  • 17. Study: Economic well-being across generations of young Canadians: Are millennials better or worse off? Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201910820384
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2019-04-18
  • 18. Wealth and debt: How are millennials doing? Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2019029
    Description:

    This infographic examines economic wellbeing for millennials (those between 25 and 34 years old in 2016) and provides a comparison with generation X at the same age (those between 25 and 34 years old in 1999). Information is provided on income, assets, debts and net worth.

    Release date: 2019-04-18
  • 19. Study: The Wealth of Immigrant Families in Canada Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201910620385
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2019-04-16
  • 20. The Wealth of Immigrant Families in Canada Archived
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2019010
    Description:

    While several studies have documented the evolution of the earnings of immigrants in Canada over the last three decades, the evolution of immigrants’ wealth has received relatively little attention. Using data from the Survey of Financial Security of 1999, 2005, 2012 and 2016, this study fills this gap. The study uncovers several key patterns.

    Release date: 2019-04-16
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  • 1. 2005 Survey of Financial Security: Public Use Microdata User Guide Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 13F0026M2007001
    Description:

    This guide will be of assistance when using the public use microdata file (PUMF) of the Survey of Financial Security (SFS) conducted by the Pensions and Wealth Surveys Section of the Income Statistics Division.

    Release date: 2007-09-04
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