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Market value of assets held by Canadian Trusteed Pension Funds (in millions of dollars) - Canada
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- Table: 11-10-0075-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of CanadaFrequency: OccasionalDescription:
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 - Table: 11-10-0078-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of CanadaFrequency: OccasionalDescription:
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 - Table: 89-26-0006Description: PASSAGES is an open-source dynamic microsimulation model aimed at supporting policy analysis and research relating to Canadian retirement income system outcomes at the individual and family level. The publicly available version includes a synthetic starting database, a model, and documentation. A confidential starting database is also available.Release date: 2024-10-18
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X20242623631Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-09-18
- Table: 11-10-0084-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: QuarterlyDescription:
Trusteed pension funds, market and book value of assets by public and private sector, quarterly.
Release date: 2024-09-18 - Table: 11-10-0085-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: QuarterlyDescription:
Trusteed pension funds, market and book value of assets by foreign and domestic holdings, quarterly.
Release date: 2024-09-18 - Table: 11-10-0086-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: QuarterlyDescription:
Trusteed pension funds, revenues, expenditures and net income, by sector, quarterly.
Release date: 2024-09-18 - Table: 11-10-0062-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription:
Registered pension plans (RPPs), active members and market value of assets by special retirement conditions, sector, type of plan and contributory status.
Release date: 2024-08-29 - Table: 11-10-0063-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription:
Registered pension plans (RPPs), active members and market value of assets by age and service condition for special retirement, sector, type of plan and contributory status.
Release date: 2024-08-29 - Table: 11-10-0064-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription:
Registered pension plans (RPPs), active members and market value of assets by death benefits after retirement, sector, type of plan and contributory status.
Release date: 2024-08-29
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- Table: 11-10-0075-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of CanadaFrequency: OccasionalDescription:
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 - Table: 11-10-0078-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of CanadaFrequency: OccasionalDescription:
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 - Table: 89-26-0006Description: PASSAGES is an open-source dynamic microsimulation model aimed at supporting policy analysis and research relating to Canadian retirement income system outcomes at the individual and family level. The publicly available version includes a synthetic starting database, a model, and documentation. A confidential starting database is also available.Release date: 2024-10-18
- Table: 11-10-0084-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: QuarterlyDescription:
Trusteed pension funds, market and book value of assets by public and private sector, quarterly.
Release date: 2024-09-18 - Table: 11-10-0085-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: QuarterlyDescription:
Trusteed pension funds, market and book value of assets by foreign and domestic holdings, quarterly.
Release date: 2024-09-18 - Table: 11-10-0086-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: QuarterlyDescription:
Trusteed pension funds, revenues, expenditures and net income, by sector, quarterly.
Release date: 2024-09-18 - Table: 11-10-0062-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription:
Registered pension plans (RPPs), active members and market value of assets by special retirement conditions, sector, type of plan and contributory status.
Release date: 2024-08-29 - Table: 11-10-0063-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription:
Registered pension plans (RPPs), active members and market value of assets by age and service condition for special retirement, sector, type of plan and contributory status.
Release date: 2024-08-29 - Table: 11-10-0064-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription:
Registered pension plans (RPPs), active members and market value of assets by death benefits after retirement, sector, type of plan and contributory status.
Release date: 2024-08-29 - Table: 11-10-0094-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription:
Registered pension plans (RPPs), active members and market value of assets, by jurisdiction of plan registration, sector, type of plan and contributory status.
Release date: 2024-08-29
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- Stats in brief: 11-001-X20242623631Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-09-18
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X20240933548Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-04-02
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X20233474775Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2023-12-13
- Articles and reports: 75F0002M2023008Description: Contributions to the Registered Pension Plan (RPP), the Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) and the Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA) constitute the third pillar of the Canadian retirement income system. Survey data show that income withdrawn from the retirement system accounted for an increasing share of the total income for elderly Canadians. Assessing the health of the retirement income system is important, especially when it comes to the fund inflows. This paper attempts to see how many Canadian families participated in this pillar of the retirement income system, the amounts contributed to the registered accounts, and their participation and contribution trends over time.Release date: 2023-10-17
- Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200200002Description:
A Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) is a tax-deductible savings vehicle designed to encourage people to save for their retirement. Contributions are made with pre-tax income, and taxation is deferred to the time when funds are withdrawn, typically in retirement when marginal tax rates are otherwise low, resulting in tax savings over the life cycle. However, RRSP funds do not lock in and there are no early withdrawal penalties by the tax system, which means pre-retirement withdrawals are frequent. This prevalence of pre-retirement RRSP withdrawals raises the question of what reasons, aside from retirement planning, lead people to use these plans. To explore this issue, new research by Statistics Canada and the Retirement and Savings Institute (RSI) at HEC Montréal considers how a person’s financial literacy affects the timing of contributions to and withdrawals from RRSPs.
Release date: 2022-02-23 - Articles and reports: 75-006-X201900100017Description:
Among immigrants who came to Canada recently, some are seniors over the age of 65. This study examines the factors associated with the low-income rate of senior immigrants, with a focus on access to Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) benefits.
Release date: 2019-12-03 - 7. Study: The Long-term Effects of Employer-sponsored Pension Plans on Non-workplace Returns on Investments ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201901419283Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2019-01-14
- 8. The Long-term Effects of Employer-sponsored Pension Plans on Non-workplace Returns on Investments ArchivedArticles and reports: 11F0019M2019001Description:
What is the effect of having an employer-sponsored pension plan (EPP) on financial performance in non-workplace investments? This paper offers new insight into this unresolved empirical issue, using administrative data on over 345,000 taxfilers from Canada.
Release date: 2019-01-14 - Stats in brief: 11-001-X201833419264Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2018-11-30
- Articles and reports: 11F0019M2017391Description:
This paper assesses the extent to which education affects how Canadians save and accumulate wealth for retirement. The paper makes three contributions. First, a descriptive analysis is presented of differences in savings and home values across individuals based on their levels of educational attainment. To this end, new datasets that link survey respondents from the 1991 and 2006 censuses of Canada to their administrative tax records are used. These data provide a unique opportunity to jointly observe education, savings, home values, and a plethora of other factors of relevance. Second, the causal effect of high school completion on savings rates in tax-preferred accounts is estimated, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in the identification. Third, building on a recent study by Messacar (2015), education is also found to affect how individuals re-optimize their savings rates in response to an automatic change in pension wealth accumulation. The implications of this study’s findings for the “nudge paradigm” in behavioural economics are discussed.
Release date: 2017-03-27
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- 1. T1 Family File, Preliminary Estimates ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 72-211-X2018001Description:
Data on investment income, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) contributions and charitable donations are derived from income tax returns.The data for the products associated with this release are derived from an early version of the T1 file that Statistics Canada receives from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).
Release date: 2018-02-14 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 72-211-XDescription:
Data on investment income, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) contributions and charitable donations are derived from income tax returns.The data for the products associated with this release are derived from an early version of the T1 file that Statistics Canada receives from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).
Release date: 2018-02-14 - 3. T1 Family File, Preliminary Estimates ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 72-211-X2017001Description:
Data on investment income, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) contributions and charitable donations are derived from income tax returns.The data for the products associated with this release are derived from an early version of the T1 file that Statistics Canada receives from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).
Release date: 2017-02-22 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 13-599-XDescription: This guide presents an overview of the scope and structure of the Pension Satellite Account as well as the methodology used to derive its stocks and flows estimates.Release date: 2010-11-12
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75-512-XDescription:
This book provides technical documentation of variables, methodologies and extended lists of references used in developing the research findings reported in "New Frontiers of Research on Retirement". It will be used around the world by researchers and teachers, as well as by students preparing theses related to patterns of transition to retirement. This documentation is important because a large part of book is devoted to scientific papers that are based upon Statistics Canada's data and which require substantial innovations of useful concepts and data.
Release date: 2008-09-08 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 13F0026M2003001Description:
This guide will be of assistance in understanding the concepts, methodology and data quality of the surveys conducted as well as the data analysed by the Pensions and Wealth Surveys Section of the Income Statistics Division. It covers the following surveys/programs:- Pension Plans in Canada;- Trusteed Pension Funds (Census and Quarterly);- Survey of Financial Security; and- Pension adjustment/registered retirement savings plans data file provided by Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.
Release date: 2003-02-14 - 7. Survey of Financial Security - Methodology for Estimating the Value of Employer Pension Plan Benefits ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 13F0026M2001003Description:
Initial results from the Survey of Financial Security (SFS), which provides information on the net worth of Canadians, were released on March 15 2001, in The daily. The survey collected information on the value of the financial and non-financial assets owned by each family unit and on the amount of their debt.
Statistics Canada is currently refining this initial estimate of net worth by adding to it an estimate of the value of benefits accrued in employer pension plans. This is an important addition to any asset and debt survey as, for many family units, it is likely to be one of the largest assets. With the aging of the population, information on pension accumulations is greatly needed to better understand the financial situation of those nearing retirement. These updated estimates of the Survey of Financial Security will be released in late fall 2001.
The process for estimating the value of employer pension plan benefits is a complex one. This document describes the methodology for estimating that value, for the following groups: a) persons who belonged to an RPP at the time of the survey (referred to as current plan members); b) persons who had previously belonged to an RPP and either left the money in the plan or transferred it to a new plan; c) persons who are receiving RPP benefits.
This methodology was proposed by Hubert Frenken and Michael Cohen. The former has many years of experience with Statistics Canada working with data on employer pension plans; the latter is a principal with the actuarial consulting firm William M. Mercer. Earlier this year, Statistics Canada carried out a public consultation on the proposed methodology. This report includes updates made as a result of feedback received from data users.
Release date: 2001-09-05 - 8. Survey of Financial Security - Estimating the Value of Employer Pension Plan Benefits - A Discussion Paper ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 13F0026M2001002Description:
The Survey of Financial Security (SFS) will provide information on the net worth of Canadians. In order to do this, information was collected - in May and June 1999 - on the value of the assets and debts of each of the families or unattached individuals in the sample. The value of one particular asset is not easy to determine, or to estimate. That is the present value of the amount people have accrued in their employer pension plan. These plans are often called registered pension plans (RPP), as they must be registered with Canada Customs and Revenue Agency. Although some RPP members receive estimates of the value of their accrued benefit, in most cases plan members would not know this amount. However, it is likely to be one of the largest assets for many family units. And, as the baby boomers approach retirement, information on their pension accumulations is much needed to better understand their financial readiness for this transition.
The intent of this paper is to: present, for discussion, a methodology for estimating the present value of employer pension plan benefits for the Survey of Financial Security; and to seek feedback on the proposed methodology. This document proposes a methodology for estimating the value of employer pension plan benefits for the following groups:a) persons who belonged to an RPP at the time of the survey (referred to as current plan members); b) persons who had previously belonged to an RPP and either left the money in the plan or transferred it to a new plan; c) persons who are receiving RPP benefits.
Release date: 2001-02-07 - Notices and consultations: 13-605-X20000018519Description:
With the release of the first quarter 2000 of the National Income and Expenditure Accounts the sectoring of federal and provincial government, non-autonomous pension plans has changed. These pension plans are now part of the personal sector. Previously these plans were included in either the federal or provincial government sector accounts.
Release date: 2000-05-31 - 10. Retirement Income Programs: An Inventory of Data/Information Available at Statistics Canada ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 13F0026M2000001Description:
The intent of this document is to provide an inventory of the surveys, databases, publications, articles and work in progress in Statistics Canada that relate to Canada's retirement income programs. The inventory provides information on publications, output and relevant data elements produced by the surveys and databases. It does not provide an exhaustive description of these data sources, but instead focuses on the information that can be used for purposes of researching/analysing retirement income programs. Some of the information contained does not specifically relate to these programs but might be used as a secondary source when doing research in this area.
Release date: 2000-03-06
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