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Description: Market Basket Measure (MBM) thresholds for the reference family by MBM region and base year. Total thresholds as well as thresholds for the food, clothing, transportation, shelter and other expenses components are presented, in current and constant dollars, annual.

Description: The total Market Basket Measure (MBM) threshold for each MBM region is presented by economic family size, annual.

Description: Canada’s Poverty Reduction Strategy introduced the Official Poverty Line for Canada and a dashboard of 12 indicators to track progress on poverty reduction for Canadians and their households. This infographic presents trend information for Canada's official poverty rate and the associated 12 indicators.

Description: Poverty and low-income statistics by disability status, age group, gender and economic family type, Canada, annual.

Description: Poverty and low-income statistics by visible minority group, Indigenous group and immigration status, Canada and provinces.

Description: Average number of adjusted Market Basket Measure (MBM) baskets that could be purchased with the family disposable income, by after-tax income decile, Canada and provinces, annual.

Description: After-tax income decomposed according to each component of the disposable income for the Market Basket Measure (MBM) (realized part of the adjusted MBM threshold, surplus or deficit and all adjustments such as non-discretionary expenses and income adjustments), by after-tax income decile, Canada and provinces, annual.

Description: Number of persons in low income, low income rate and average gap ratio by age, gender and economic family type, annual.

Description: Low income statistics by age, gender and economic family type, annual.

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Number of persons in low income, low income rate and average gap ratio by economic family type, annual.

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This table presents low-income measures, household low-income status and household type for private households of census metropolitan areas, tracted census agglomerations and census tracts.

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This table presents low-income cut-offs, family low-income status, economic family structure, family size of economic family, ages of economic family members, number of earners in the economic family and year for economic families in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents low-income cut-offs, family low-income status and economic family structure for economic families in private households of census metropolitan areas, tracted census agglomerations and census tracts.

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This table presents low-income cut-offs, individual low-income status, household living arrangements for persons not in economic families, age, sex and year for persons not in economic families aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents low-income cut-offs, individual low-income status, household living arrangements for persons not in economic families, age and sex for persons not in economic families aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions.

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This table presents low-income cut-offs, individual low-income status, household living arrangements for persons not in economic families, age and sex for persons not in economic families aged 15 years and over in private households of census metropolitan areas, tracted census agglomerations and census tracts.

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This table presents individual Market Basket Measure (MBM) low-income status, age and sex for the population in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents individual Market Basket Measure (MBM) low-income status and economic family characteristics of persons for the population in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents Aboriginal identity, individual low-income status, low-income indicators, Registered or Treaty Indian status, age and sex for the population in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents immigrant status and period of immigration, individual low-income status, low-income indicators, age and sex for the population in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

Description: This Census in Brief article focuses on the experiences of poverty in Canada based on data from the 2021 Census. It examines disaggregated poverty trends by age, gender, family situation, immigration status as well as by Indigenous identity and for racialized groups. When possible, comparisons are made to data from the 2016 Census.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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This technical paper describes the results of the review period, including small adjustments to the disposable income amounts used in the discussion paper Construction of a Northern Market Basket Measure (MBM-N) of poverty for Yukon and the Northwest Territories. It also marks the end of the review period for the MBM-N for Yukon and the Northwest Territories by presenting the latest poverty estimates for reference year 2020.

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This discussion paper describes considerations for the creation of an index based on the poverty rates produced using multiple Market Basket Measure (MBM) bases resulting from periodic reviews of the MBM. It also provides an opportunity for the public and stakeholders to provide feedback and comments on the proposed poverty index.

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This article about people in poverty is part of the "Housing Experiences in Canada" fact sheet series. This series focuses on housing indicators that provide information on the housing experiences of different population groups, with a focus on those identified in legislation that recognizes housing as a human right.

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Based on the data from the 2021 Census, the following infographic looks at income in Canada for 2020, including median household income, the prevalence of low-income and income inequality.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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As the first goal outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Canada and other UN member states have committed to end poverty in all its forms everywhere by 2030. This 2022 infographic provides an overview of indicators underlying the first Sustainable Development Goal in support of eradicating poverty, and the statistics and data sources used to monitor and report on this goal in Canada.

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"Canada's Poverty Reduction Strategy" introduces the Official Poverty Line for Canada with a dashboard of 12 Indicators to track progress on poverty reduction for Canadians and their households. This infographic presents trend information for Canada's Official Poverty Rate and the associated 12 indicators.

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Food insecurity linked to insufficient income is an important determinant of health. Whether the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated levels of food insecurity in Canada during the pandemic, particularly among vulnerable groups, is unclear. This study estimated the proportion of Canadians reporting experience of household food insecurity six-to-nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, and drew comparisons to pre-pandemic levels.

Description: This publication provides user guides and datasets containing statistics on a variety of topics and issues related to justice and community safety.

Description: The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (CIMD) is an area-based index which uses Census of Population microdata to measure four key dimensions of deprivation at the dissemination area (DA)-level: residential instability, economic dependency, situational vulnerability and ethno-cultural composition.

The CIMD allows for an understanding of inequalities in various measures of health and social well-being. While it is a geographically-based index of deprivation and marginalization, it can also be used as a proxy for an individual. The CIMD has the potential to be widely used by researchers on a variety of topics related to socio-economic research. Other uses for the index may include: policy planning and evaluation, or resource allocation.

Description: This video builds on concepts introduced in the other videos on income. It explains key low-income concepts - Market Basket Measure (MBM), Low income measure (LIM) and Low-income cut-offs (LICO) and the indicators associated with these concepts such as the low-income gap and the low-income ratio. These concepts are used in analysis of the economic well-being of the population.

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From September 2018 through April 2019, Statistics Canada conducted a broad consultation on the Market Basket Measure (MBM). This paper will describe the consultations that took place, give highlights of what Statistics Canada heard, and describe next steps.

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The User Guide for the Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (CIMD) outlines uses for the index, as well as it provides a brief description of the methodology behind the development of the index. This User Guide also provides instructions on how to use the index, and lists considerations when using the CIMD data.

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This note discusses revised income estimates from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID). These revisions to the SLID estimates make it possible to compare results from the Canadian Income Survey (CIS) to earlier years. The revisions address the issue of methodology differences between SLID and CIS.

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This report summarizes the comments received in response to a discussion paper on low income cut-offs released in January 2000.

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This paper describes the issues around updating the low income cut-offs as well as Statistics Canada's findings and proposes a course of action.

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Recently there has been extensive and recurring media coverage of Statistics Canada's low income cut-offs and their relationship to the measurement of poverty. At the heart of the debate is the use of the low income cut-offs as poverty lines even though Statistics Canada has clearly stated, since their publication began over 25 years ago, that they are not. The high profile recently given this issue has presented Statistics Canada with a welcome opportunity to restate its position on these issues, views which seem to have become lost in the debate.

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This working presents the nature and uses of the geographic structure used by the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) and explains how statistics on low income are dependent on geographical concepts. It also describes the methodology for deriving geographic data for the Wave 1 (1993 reference year) SLID files, and improvements made for the Wave 2 (1994 reference year) release.