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  • 41. Spotlight on Canadians and debt: Who's vulnerable? Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2019016
    Description:

    Debt-to-income ratios in Canada have continued to rise since the 2008-2009 recession, while they declined in the United States over the same period. This infographic provides information on indebtedness in selected metropolitan areas, illustrating that economic well-being varies considerably across the country and across households, with those at the lower end of the income distribution in a more vulnerable position.

    Release date: 2019-03-05
  • 42. The Economic Well-being of Women in Canada Archived
    Articles and reports: 89-503-X201500154930
    Description:

    Using Statistics Canada data from a variety of sources, including the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, the Canadian Income Survey, the Survey of Financial Security, and the 2016 Census of Population, this chapter of Women in Canada examines women's economic well-being in comparison with men's and, where relevant, explores how it has evolved over the past 40 years. In addition to gender, age and family type (i.e., couple families with or without children; lone mothers and fathers; and single women and men without children) are important determinants of economic well-being. Hence, many of the analyses distinguish between women and men in different age groups and/or family types.

    Release date: 2018-05-16
  • 43. Study: The Economic Well-being of Women in Canada 2015 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201813618145
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2018-05-16
  • 44. 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
  • 45. Study: Which Families Invest in Registered Education Savings Plans and does it Matter for Postsecondary Enrolment? 1999 and 2012 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201710215962
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2017-04-12
  • 46. Study: Changes in wealth across the income distribution 1999 to 2012 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201515412444
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2015-06-03
  • 47. Changes in wealth across the income distribution, 1999 to 2012 Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X201500114194
    Description:

    This article examines changes in the wealth of Canadian families over the period 1999 to 2012, with a particular focus on changes across income quintiles. The paper also examines changes in the concentration of wealth across income quintiles, as well as the characteristics of families with low income and no wealth.

    Release date: 2015-06-03
  • 48. Study: Changes in debt and assets of Canadian families 1999 to 2012 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201511912061
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2015-04-29
  • 49. Survey of Financial Security: Public use microdata file 2012 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201510412202
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2015-04-14
  • 50. Employer pensions and the wealth of Canadian families Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X201500114134
    Description:

    This study compares the wealth holdings of family units covered by workplace pension plans with those of other family units. It focuses on families and unattached individuals who had no significant business equity and whose major income recipient was aged 30 to 54 and employed as a paid worker. The paper also examines whether wealth differences observed between families with registered pension plan (RPP) assets and other families persist when key sociodemographic differences between the two populations are taken into account.

    Release date: 2015-01-15
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  • 1. 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.

    Please see the user guide for more information.  

    Release date: 2025-05-26
  • 2. 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
  • 3. 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
  • 4. 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
  • 5. 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
  • 6. 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
  • 7. 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
  • 8. 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
  • 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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Analysis (62) (0 to 10 of 62 results)

  • 1. Economic well-being among immigrant and Canadian-born families: The joint distribution of income and wealth
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600800001
    Description: This study examines disparities in economic well-being among recent immigrant, established immigrant and Canadian-born families. Using pooled data from the Survey of Financial Security (2016, 2019 and 2023), families are classified across income and wealth quartiles to assess economic well-being.
    Release date: 2026-08-26
  • 2. Disparities between immigrant and Canadian-born families across the wealth distribution
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600700002
    Description: This study examines disparities between immigrant and Canadian-born families across their wealth distributions, accounting for recency of immigration and life cycle in patterns of wealth accumulation. It examines two questions: are wealth gaps between immigrant and Canadian-born families larger at the lower, middle or upper end of the distribution? And, are there differences in the components of wealth between immigrant and Canadian-born families across the distribution?
    Release date: 2026-07-22
  • 3. Retirement and post-retirement employment among older Canadians
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202600200004
    Description: Using data from the Labour Force Survey and the Survey of Financial Security, this study examines trends in the number of retirements over time, as well as changes in post-retirement employment among older Canadians. Reasons for retirement, as well as selected sociodemographic characteristics associated with working after retirement, are also explored.
    Release date: 2026-04-09
  • 4. Trends in the wealth gap between immigrant and Canadian-born families from 2016 to 2023
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600300002
    Description: This study examines two questions regarding the trends in wealth gaps among Canadian-born and immigrant families: Has the wealth gap between recent immigrant, established immigrant and Canadian-born families changed since 2016? And, which components of wealth (home equity, pensions, investments) have contributed to the wealth gap?
    Release date: 2026-03-25
  • 5. Familial support in entering the Canadian housing market
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500300001
    Description: This article presents recent inheritance findings from the Survey of Financial Security. It highlights the level of familial support many young homeowners have received to enter the housing market.
    Release date: 2025-03-26
  • 6. 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
  • 7. 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
  • 8. Study: Food insecurity among Canadian families 2022 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202331837704
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-11-14
  • 9. Rising prices and the impact on the most financially vulnerable: A profile of those in the bottom family income quintile
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202300100002
    Description: This study uses the 2022 Portrait of Canadian Society Survey to examine the impact of rising inflation on the lowest income Canadians. Using multiple pre-pandemic data sources, the study also takes a closer look at people living in the bottom income quintile, examining their family income, debt and assets levels, as well as some indicators of economic hardship.
    Release date: 2023-02-08
  • 10. Study: Rising prices and the impact on the most financially vulnerable: A profile of those in the bottom family income quintile Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202303936144
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-02-08
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Reference (1) ((1 result))

  • 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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