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- Notices and consultations: 75-513-X2014001Description:
Starting with the 2012 reference year, annual individual and family income data is produced by the Canadian Income Survey (CIS). The CIS is a cross-sectional survey developed to provide information on the income and income sources of Canadians, along with their individual and household characteristics. The CIS reports on many of the same statistics as the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID), which last reported on income for the 2011 reference year. This note describes the CIS methodology, as well as the main differences in survey objectives, methodology and questionnaires between CIS and SLID.
Release date: 2014-12-10 - Articles and reports: 75F0002M2011001Description:
Households provide money, goods and services directly to help other households: these inter-household transfers add up to a sizable flow of economic resources between households. While measured by Statistics Canada surveys, inter-household transfers are not included in the recipient household's total income-except court-ordered alimony and child support payments. Because inter-household transfers affect a household's ability to consume goods (Smeeding and Weinburg, 2001), they are important in measuring a household's economic well-being. This paper examines the conceptual and measurement issues related to voluntary inter-household transfers, and provides a portrait of voluntary inter-household transfer in Canada. This paper uses the recent data on inter-household transfers from Statistics Canada's income, expenditure, and wealth surveys.
Release date: 2011-05-25 - Articles and reports: 75F0002M2009002Description:
Low income cut-offs (LICOs) are income thresholds, determined by analysing family expenditure data, below which families will devote a larger share of income to the necessities of food, shelter and clothing than the average family would. To reflect differences in the costs of necessities among different community and family sizes, LICOs are defined for five categories of community size and seven of family size.
Low income measures (LIMs), on the other hand, are strictly relative measures of low income, set at 50% of adjusted median family income. These measures are categorized according to the number of adults and children present in families, reflecting the economies of scale inherent in family size and composition. This publication incorporates a detailed description of the methods used to arrive at both measurements. It also explains how base years are defined and how LICOs are updated using the Consumer Price Index.
Release date: 2009-06-03 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X20050029048Description:
We consider a problem in which an analysis is needed for categorical data from a single two-way table with partial classification (i.e., both item and unit nonresponses). We assume that this is the only information available. A Bayesian methodology permits modeling different patterns of missingness under ignorability and nonignorability assumptions. We construct a nonignorable nonresponse model which is obtained from the ignorable nonresponse model via a model expansion using a data-dependent prior; the nonignorable nonresponse model robustifies the ignorable nonresponse model. A multinomial-Dirichlet model, adjusted for the nonresponse, is used to estimate the cell probabilities, and a Bayes factor is used to test for association. We illustrate our methodology using data on bone mineral density and family income. A sensitivity analysis is used to assess the effects of the data-dependent prior. The ignorable and nonignorable nonresponse models are compared using a simulation study, and there are subtle differences between these models.
Release date: 2006-02-17 - Articles and reports: 75F0002M2004010Description:
This document offers a set of guidelines for analysing income distributions. It focuses on the basic intuition of the concepts and techniques instead of the equations and technical details.
Release date: 2004-10-08
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- Articles and reports: 75F0002M2011001Description:
Households provide money, goods and services directly to help other households: these inter-household transfers add up to a sizable flow of economic resources between households. While measured by Statistics Canada surveys, inter-household transfers are not included in the recipient household's total income-except court-ordered alimony and child support payments. Because inter-household transfers affect a household's ability to consume goods (Smeeding and Weinburg, 2001), they are important in measuring a household's economic well-being. This paper examines the conceptual and measurement issues related to voluntary inter-household transfers, and provides a portrait of voluntary inter-household transfer in Canada. This paper uses the recent data on inter-household transfers from Statistics Canada's income, expenditure, and wealth surveys.
Release date: 2011-05-25 - Articles and reports: 75F0002M2009002Description:
Low income cut-offs (LICOs) are income thresholds, determined by analysing family expenditure data, below which families will devote a larger share of income to the necessities of food, shelter and clothing than the average family would. To reflect differences in the costs of necessities among different community and family sizes, LICOs are defined for five categories of community size and seven of family size.
Low income measures (LIMs), on the other hand, are strictly relative measures of low income, set at 50% of adjusted median family income. These measures are categorized according to the number of adults and children present in families, reflecting the economies of scale inherent in family size and composition. This publication incorporates a detailed description of the methods used to arrive at both measurements. It also explains how base years are defined and how LICOs are updated using the Consumer Price Index.
Release date: 2009-06-03 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X20050029048Description:
We consider a problem in which an analysis is needed for categorical data from a single two-way table with partial classification (i.e., both item and unit nonresponses). We assume that this is the only information available. A Bayesian methodology permits modeling different patterns of missingness under ignorability and nonignorability assumptions. We construct a nonignorable nonresponse model which is obtained from the ignorable nonresponse model via a model expansion using a data-dependent prior; the nonignorable nonresponse model robustifies the ignorable nonresponse model. A multinomial-Dirichlet model, adjusted for the nonresponse, is used to estimate the cell probabilities, and a Bayes factor is used to test for association. We illustrate our methodology using data on bone mineral density and family income. A sensitivity analysis is used to assess the effects of the data-dependent prior. The ignorable and nonignorable nonresponse models are compared using a simulation study, and there are subtle differences between these models.
Release date: 2006-02-17 - Articles and reports: 75F0002M2004010Description:
This document offers a set of guidelines for analysing income distributions. It focuses on the basic intuition of the concepts and techniques instead of the equations and technical details.
Release date: 2004-10-08
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- Notices and consultations: 75-513-X2014001Description:
Starting with the 2012 reference year, annual individual and family income data is produced by the Canadian Income Survey (CIS). The CIS is a cross-sectional survey developed to provide information on the income and income sources of Canadians, along with their individual and household characteristics. The CIS reports on many of the same statistics as the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID), which last reported on income for the 2011 reference year. This note describes the CIS methodology, as well as the main differences in survey objectives, methodology and questionnaires between CIS and SLID.
Release date: 2014-12-10
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