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  • Stats in brief: 45-20-00032026003
    Description: Canada’s population is getting a makeover. Big boomer and millennial waves, fewer kids, and longer lives are reshaping housing, schools and care. With Patrick Charbonneau, Section Chief in the Centre for Demography at Statistics Canada, we explore the sandwich generation squeeze and the upside of aging.
    Release date: 2026-05-27

  • Stats in brief: 11-627-M2026018
    Description: Volunteering is an important source of support for various organizations. It can be formal (on behalf of a charity or non-profit organization) or informal (helping people directly or improving the community. This infographic looks at formal volunteering among Canadians 55 years and over in 2023.
    Release date: 2026-04-24

  • 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

  • Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024057
    Description: This infographic looks at the poverty rates of different groups of older women (aged 65 years and older) in Canada. Using the 2021 Census of Population, it looks specifically at the low-income and poverty rates of different groups of older women, including older immigrant and racialized women.
    Release date: 2024-12-04

  • Articles and reports: 45-20-00022024002
    Description: This paper draws a portrait of the economic situation of older persons (aged 65 years and older) in Canada, with a special focus on different groups of older women. More specifically, using the combined data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, and the Canadian Income Survey, the evolution of the low-income situations, median income, and sources of income of older women and men from 1976 to 2022 are studied in the first section of the paper. Using the 2021 Census of Population, the second section looks specifically at the low-income and poverty rates of different groups of older women, including older immigrant and racialized women.
    Release date: 2024-12-04

  • Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200400001
    Description: Baby boomers are on average living longer and healthier, and thus are capable of working more years than earlier generations. The feasibility of working in older ages is further improved as the economic structure continues to shift from manufacturing to the service sector and knowledge-based employment that provide jobs with less physical strain. Whether retirement-age baby boomers will have a higher level of labour force participation (LFP) than earlier generations will have a large impact on their economic well-being and on the overall labour supply in Canada within a decade or so. Using the Labour Force Survey (LFS) between January 1976 and December 2021, this article compares baby boomers and earlier generations in LFP.
    Release date: 2022-04-28

  • Articles and reports: 75-006-X202200100001
    Description:

    The care economy, which includes paid and unpaid care for children, seniors, and people with disabilities, is a fundamental component of societies. In Canada, and around the world, demographic and socioeconomic transformations, notably the aging population, are increasing the demand for care workers. This study uses data from the 2016 Census of Population and from the Labour Force Survey to examine the personal and job characteristics of workers in paid care occupations by gender. It also examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the employment of workers in this sector, compared to workers in all other occupations.

    Release date: 2022-01-25

  • Articles and reports: 75-006-X201600114345
    Description:

    This article analyzes the impact of immigration on the size and ethnocultural composition of future cohorts of seniors in Canada, using data from the Population Estimates Program, the Population Projections Program and other sources of demographic data.

    Release date: 2016-03-09

  • Articles and reports: 75-006-X201500114154
    Description:

    Even though most grandparents live in separate households from their adult children and grandchildren, sometimes the grandparent and grandchild generations live together. This paper provides information on the number of grandparents who are in this particular situation, along with their living arrangements and their ethnocultural and sociodemographic characteristics.

    Release date: 2015-04-14

  • Articles and reports: 11-626-X2012014
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article in the Economic Insights series reports on the most recent statistical developments relating to the financial well-being of retirees. This summary is based on selected research done at Statistics Canada on the contribution of income, consumption, and financial wealth to the well-being of older Canadians.

    Release date: 2012-08-29
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  • Stats in brief: 45-20-00032026003
    Description: Canada’s population is getting a makeover. Big boomer and millennial waves, fewer kids, and longer lives are reshaping housing, schools and care. With Patrick Charbonneau, Section Chief in the Centre for Demography at Statistics Canada, we explore the sandwich generation squeeze and the upside of aging.
    Release date: 2026-05-27

  • Stats in brief: 11-627-M2026018
    Description: Volunteering is an important source of support for various organizations. It can be formal (on behalf of a charity or non-profit organization) or informal (helping people directly or improving the community. This infographic looks at formal volunteering among Canadians 55 years and over in 2023.
    Release date: 2026-04-24

  • Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024057
    Description: This infographic looks at the poverty rates of different groups of older women (aged 65 years and older) in Canada. Using the 2021 Census of Population, it looks specifically at the low-income and poverty rates of different groups of older women, including older immigrant and racialized women.
    Release date: 2024-12-04
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Articles and reports (31) (0 to 10 of 31 results)

  • 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

  • Articles and reports: 45-20-00022024002
    Description: This paper draws a portrait of the economic situation of older persons (aged 65 years and older) in Canada, with a special focus on different groups of older women. More specifically, using the combined data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, and the Canadian Income Survey, the evolution of the low-income situations, median income, and sources of income of older women and men from 1976 to 2022 are studied in the first section of the paper. Using the 2021 Census of Population, the second section looks specifically at the low-income and poverty rates of different groups of older women, including older immigrant and racialized women.
    Release date: 2024-12-04

  • Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200400001
    Description: Baby boomers are on average living longer and healthier, and thus are capable of working more years than earlier generations. The feasibility of working in older ages is further improved as the economic structure continues to shift from manufacturing to the service sector and knowledge-based employment that provide jobs with less physical strain. Whether retirement-age baby boomers will have a higher level of labour force participation (LFP) than earlier generations will have a large impact on their economic well-being and on the overall labour supply in Canada within a decade or so. Using the Labour Force Survey (LFS) between January 1976 and December 2021, this article compares baby boomers and earlier generations in LFP.
    Release date: 2022-04-28

  • Articles and reports: 75-006-X202200100001
    Description:

    The care economy, which includes paid and unpaid care for children, seniors, and people with disabilities, is a fundamental component of societies. In Canada, and around the world, demographic and socioeconomic transformations, notably the aging population, are increasing the demand for care workers. This study uses data from the 2016 Census of Population and from the Labour Force Survey to examine the personal and job characteristics of workers in paid care occupations by gender. It also examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the employment of workers in this sector, compared to workers in all other occupations.

    Release date: 2022-01-25

  • Articles and reports: 75-006-X201600114345
    Description:

    This article analyzes the impact of immigration on the size and ethnocultural composition of future cohorts of seniors in Canada, using data from the Population Estimates Program, the Population Projections Program and other sources of demographic data.

    Release date: 2016-03-09

  • Articles and reports: 75-006-X201500114154
    Description:

    Even though most grandparents live in separate households from their adult children and grandchildren, sometimes the grandparent and grandchild generations live together. This paper provides information on the number of grandparents who are in this particular situation, along with their living arrangements and their ethnocultural and sociodemographic characteristics.

    Release date: 2015-04-14

  • Articles and reports: 11-626-X2012014
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article in the Economic Insights series reports on the most recent statistical developments relating to the financial well-being of retirees. This summary is based on selected research done at Statistics Canada on the contribution of income, consumption, and financial wealth to the well-being of older Canadians.

    Release date: 2012-08-29

  • Articles and reports: 11-626-X2012010
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article in the Economic Insights series examines the income replacement rates achieved in old age by Canadians who experienced marital dissolution, through either widowhood or divorce, after age 55. It is based on results published in the research paper Income Replacement Rates Among Canadian Seniors: The Effect of Widowhood and Divorce.

    Release date: 2012-06-20

  • Articles and reports: 11F0019M2012343
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The financial security of widowed and divorced women during their retirement years has long been a concern. This paper places this issue within the context of research on replacement rates, the extent to which family income during the working years (here, the mid-50s) is "replaced" as individuals move into their late 70s. Using a longitudinal database and fixed-effects econometric models, the paper assesses the effect of widowhood/widowerhood and divorce after age 55 on replacement rates during the retirement years.

    Release date: 2012-06-20

  • Articles and reports: 11F0027M2011074
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Discussions of pension adequacy for elderly Canadians have used the rate at which income falls with age; the income replacement rate or the ratio of post-retirement income to pre-retirement income. Use of income streams to assess post-retirement welfare requires a standard against which adequacy of the replacement rates can be judged. Because some expenditures (for example, work-related expenses) can be expected to fall after retirement, a declining income stream does not necessarily signal financial problems for seniors. More importantly, income as normally measured captures only part of what is available to seniors if households possess assets, which in retirement are not being used to generate measured income.

    This paper uses a different metric, referred to as "potential" income. Potential income is the sum of realized income and the income that could be realized from owned assets such as mutual funds and housing. Households prepare for retirement by saving and borrowing and investing the proceeds. The assets accumulated over a lifetime may or may not be drawn down in later years. If they are not, income streams underestimate the "potential" income available to support retirement. This paper takes this potential into account when comparing the pre- and post-retirement financial status of Canadian households.

    Release date: 2011-11-21