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51. Low income intensity: Urban and rural families Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X20010065882
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article uses a measure of low income intensity which incorporates the more commonly known low income rate and the average depth of low income to compare urban and rural families in Canada between 1993 and 1997.
Release date: 2001-09-12
52. The Performance of the 1990s Canadian Labour Market Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2000148
Geography: Canada
Description:
There is a general sense that the 1990s labour market was unique. It has been characterized by notions such as "downsizing", "technological revolution", "the knowledge-based economy", "rising job instability", and so on. This paper provides an extensive overview of the performance of the 1990s labour market, and asks just how different it was from the 1980s. It goes on to ask if the facts are consistent with many common beliefs and explanations. The paper focuses on (a) macro-level labour market outcomes, and (b) distributional outcomes. Macro-level topics include: has the nature of work changed dramatically in the 1990s? has there been a continued ratcheting up of unemployment? have we witnessed rising job instability and increased levels of layoffs? did company downsizing increase in the 1990s? why did per capita income growth stall in the 1990s? for a worker with a given level of human capital, has there been a deterioration in labour market outcomes?
Much of the focus in the labour market over the 1980s and 1990s was on distributional outcomes - who is winning and who is losing. Some of the distributional outcomes of the 1990s labour market addressed in the paper include: outcomes for men and women; changes in the relative wages of the highly educated and earnings inequality; trends in the rate of low-income; the changing outcomes for recent labour market entrants, including young people and immigrants; and the extent to which technological change plays a major role in these outcomes.
The paper concludes with a discussion of the overall performance of the 1990s labour market as compared to the 1980s.
Release date: 2000-05-04
53. A Comparison of the Results of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) and the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) 1993-1997: Update Archived
Articles and reports: 75F0002M1999007
Description:
This report presents an update to the results from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) and the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) for a variety of important time series and it compares the estimates from the two sources.
Release date: 1999-12-20
54. Death and Divorce: The Long-term Consequences of Parental Loss on Adolescents Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M1999135
Geography: Canada
Description:
Two quasi-experiments are used to estimate the impact of parental divorce on the adult incomes and labour market behaviour of adolescents, as well as on their use of social programs, and their marital/fertility behaviour. These involve the use of individuals experiencing the death of a parent, and legislative changes to the Canadian divorce law in 1986. Parental loss by death is assumed to be exogenous; the experiences of children with a bereaved background offering a benchmark to assess the endogeneity of parental loss through divorce. Differences between individuals with divorced parents and those from intact and bereaved families significantly overstate the impact of divorce across a broad range of outcomes. When background characteristics are controlled for-most notably the income and labour market activity of parents in the years leading up to the divorce-parental divorce seems to influence the marital and fertility decisions of children, but not their labour market outcomes. Adolescents whose parents divorced tend to put off marriage, and once married suffer a greater likelihood of marital instability, but their earnings and incomes are not on average much different from others.
Release date: 1999-06-09
55. A Comparison of the Results of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) and the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) 1993-1996 Archived
Articles and reports: 75F0002M1999002
Description:
This report presents results from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) and the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) for a variety of important time series and compares the estimates from the two sources.
Release date: 1999-04-14
56. An Examination of Dwelling Valuation Methods for the 1999 Survey of Financial Security Archived
Articles and reports: 13F0026M1999005
Description:
The new 1999 Survey of Financial Security (SFS) will provide a picture of the value and nature of assets held by Canadian families. Such information will make it possible to analyse asset holdings over the life cycle, as well as to look at the financial vulnerability and future consumption capabilities of Canadians.
This report identifies some problematic and complex issues related to the evaluation of owner-occupied dwellings (principal residence) and examines several possible approaches to valuing these dwellings. The following information about the dwelling is considered in suggesting possible valuation methods: insured value, assessed value, dwelling characteristics, and purchase price and year of purchase. An optimal method to produce an objective value for a dwelling is also suggested and methods for deriving the value of principal residences located on farms are discussed as well.
Release date: 1999-03-23
57. The Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility of Canadian Men: Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Data Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M1998113
Geography: Canada
Description:
Our objective is to obtain an accurate estimate of the degree of intergenerational income mobility in Canada. We use income tax information on about 400,000 father-son pairs, and find intergenerational earnings elasticities to be about 0.2. Earnings mobility tends to be slightly greater than income mobility, but non-parametric techniques uncover significant non-linearities in both of these relationships. Intergenerational earnings mobility is greater at the lower end of the income distribution than at the upper end, and displays an inverted V-shape elsewhere. Intergenerational income mobility follows roughly the same pattern, but is much lower at the very top of the income distribution.
Release date: 1998-10-27
58. Crossing the Low Income Line Archived
Articles and reports: 75F0002M1997011
Description:
This paper contains the complete study on income transitions conducted as part of a release strategy for the 1994 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID). It focuses on the factors that cause people to cross the low income line.
Release date: 1997-12-31
59. The Intergenerational Income Mobility of Canadian Men Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M1996089
Geography: Canada
Description:
In this paper we use administrative data associated with the tax system to: (1) document the extent of intergenerational income mobility among Canadian men; and (2) estimate the income disadvantage (in adulthood) of being raised in a low income household. We find that there is considerable intergenerational income mobility in Canada among middle income earners, but that the inheritance of economic status is significant at both the very top and very bottom of the income distribution. About one-third of those in the bottom quartile were raised by fathers who occupied the same position in the income distribution. In fact, the income advantage of someone who had a father in the top decile over someone who had a father in the bottom decile is in the order of 40%. We also discuss some of the policy implications of these findings, as well as some of their limitations and the directions implied for future research.
Release date: 1996-01-24

Stats in brief (2)

Stats in brief (2) ((2 results))

1. Indigenous people in urban areas: Vulnerabilities to the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19
Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100023
Description:
Using the 2016 Census and the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey, the article highlights key measures of economic well being (low income, food security, ability to deal with unexpected expenses) for First Nations people, Métis and Inuit living in urban areas.

Release date: 2020-05-26
2. First-Time Homebuyers in Canada, 2018
Stats in brief: 11-627-M2019091
Description:
This infographic presents findings for first-time homebuyers in Canada. The infographic includes information on how many households bought their first home within the last five years, the reason for the move, and selected household and dwelling characteristics in different housing markets.
Release date: 2020-01-15

Articles and reports (57)

Articles and reports (57) (0 to 10 of 57 results)

1. A demographic, employment and income profile of persons with disabilities aged 15 years and over in Canada, 2022
Articles and reports: 89-654-X2024001
Description: This article is the first main release by Statistics Canada based on findings from the 2022 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD). It is divided into three sections—demographics, employment, and income—and provides a general snapshot on persons with disabilities to inform on government priorities and community interest in the areas of disability prevalence, labour market participation, and income inequality. Where possible, the report will be compared with results from the 2017 CSD to provide insight into changes over the past five years.
Release date: 2024-05-28
2. Market Basket Measure research paper: An analysis of the equivalization method
Articles and reports: 75F0002M2024004
Description: This discussion paper begins by providing the reasons for why equivalization methods are used. Following this, the square root scale is described and the motivations for using the square root scale are discussed. Third, a series of new tests are conducted to evaluate the efficiency of the square root scale, and these results are discussed in some detail as they reveal many insights. The final section of the paper raises considerations for creating Market Basket Measure (MBM) thresholds for different types of families, such as unattached individuals and those including seniors or persons with disabilities.
The paper also provides an opportunity for the public and stakeholders to share feedback and comments in measuring poverty by different family characteristics in Canada.
Release date: 2024-02-22
3. Estimation of Energy Poverty Rates Using the 2021 Census of Population
Articles and reports: 46-28-0001202400100001
Description: This report examines the energy poverty rates using the data from the 2021 Census. It presents the energy poverty rates by various dwelling and household characteristics. It examines the how energy poverty rates change when indirect payments for dwelling energy are estimated and included in the definition.
Release date: 2024-02-20
4. Modelled Market Basket Measure poverty rates for 2022 and 2023
Articles and reports: 75F0002M2024001
Description: This paper provides provisional poverty rates for the 2022 and 2023 reference years using a previously published regression model. The model has been updated to use most recently available data from Distributed Household Economic Accounts (DHEA), the Canadian Income Survey (CIS) and Consumer Price Indexes (CPI).
Release date: 2024-01-18
5. Poverty among racialized groups across generations
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300800002
Description: This study uses data from Canada’s 2021 Census of Population to examine the differences between the poverty rates of racialized groups and the White population. The analysis examines whether these differences recede or persist across generations and the extent to which the sociodemographic composition of racialized groups explains these differences.
Release date: 2023-08-23
6. Market Basket Measure poverty thresholds and provisional poverty trends for 2021 and 2022
Articles and reports: 75F0002M2022008
Description:
This paper announces the release of the official Market Basket Measure (MBM) poverty thresholds for the 2021 reference year and provisional poverty thresholds for the 2022 reference year. In addition, it describes the role the Consumer Prices Indexes (CPIs) play in the annual updating of the MBM thresholds. It concludes by using the MBM thresholds' growth rates to help provide a signal as to whether poverty rates could rise or fall from 2020.

Release date: 2023-01-17
7. Market Basket Measure Technical Paper: The other necessities component
Articles and reports: 75F0002M2022006
Description:
This technical paper describes how the cost for "other necessities" is estimated in the 2018-base MBM. It provides a brief overview of the theory and application of techniques for estimating costs of "other necessities" in poverty lines and deconstructs the 2018-base MBM other necessities component to provide insights on how it is constructed. The aim of this paper is to provide a more detailed understanding of how the other necessities component of the MBM is estimated.

Release date: 2022-12-08
8. Low-income statistics for the population living on reserve and in the North using the 2016 Census
Articles and reports: 75F0002M2021005
Description:
This paper presents low-income statistics from the 2016 Census for the population residing in Indigenous communities (on reserve), in the North and in Inuit Nunangat. The selected measure for the paper is the low-income measure, after-tax computed from the household incomes, adjusted for household size, of the whole population of Canada, including those residing on reserve and in the territories. Results are presented for Canada overall as well as for the population residing on reserve, in the territories and in Inuit Nunangat, which includes Inuvialuit Region of the Northwest Territories, Nunavik in Quebec and Nunatsiavut in Labrador. Methodological considerations in the application of the Low-income measure to these geographies are also discussed.

Release date: 2021-09-21
9. Trends in household non-mortgage loans: The evolution of Canadian household debt before and during COVID-19
Articles and reports: 11-621-M2021004
Description:
Despite COVID-19's impact on the broader economy, the Canadian housing market remained resilient through 2020 as interest rates fell to historic lows. Using data derived from the National Economic Accounts Division and the Bank of Canada, this paper examines trends observed in the mortgage market leading up to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Release date: 2021-08-23
10. Experimental estimates of family weekly income, January 2020 to March 2021
Articles and reports: 75F0002M2021006
Description:
Statistics Canada has undertaken a broad range of initiatives designed to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians. This update extends earlier, experimental research into monthly family income trends of Canadians over the pandemic period. The approach integrates weekly earnings available from the Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) together with information specific to government transfers including special COVID-19 benefits collected through administrative data sources and imputation. This update incorporates additional data sources and takes into account the emergency programs introduced at the beginning of the pandemic as well as the recovery programs introduced in late September 2020 to replace them. Population coverage is consistent with the second edition, however experimental estimates have been updated and extended through March 2021. The paper describes the data sources used, estimation strategies employed, limitations, and potential future developments.
Release date: 2021-07-28

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