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- Articles and reports: 75-006-X201900100012Description:
A dream of many Canadians is to someday own their own home and most take on debt for that reason. This study uses data from the Survey of Financial Security to examine changes in homeownership rates and factors associated with homeownership, the proportion of families who had paid off the mortgage on their principal residence, and the amount of mortgage debt owed by families who had a mortgage. The study also provides information on the types of mortgage rates on the principal residence (fixed rate, variable rate or a combination of both).
Release date: 2019-08-08 - Stats in brief: 11-627-M2019054Description:
A dream of many Canadians is to someday own their own home. Canadians work hard to achieve this goal and most take on debt for that reason. Using data from the Survey on Financial Security, this infographic describes trends in homeownership and mortgage debt from 1999 to 2016.
Release date: 2019-08-08 - 13. Study: Homeownership, mortgage debt and types of mortgage among Canadian families 1999 to 2016 ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201922020843Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2019-08-08
- 14. Debt and financial distress among Canadian families ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-006-X201900100010Description:
This study uses data from the 2016 Survey of Financial Security to examine financial distress indicators for Canadian families. Three financial distress indicators are examined: the proportion of Canadian families who skipped or delayed a mortgage payment, the proportion who skipped or delayed a non-mortgage payment and the proportion who borrowed money through a payday loan. This paper also examines the factors associated with financial distress among Canadians, with a particular focus on their debt level.
Release date: 2019-06-26 - Stats in brief: 11-001-X201917720485Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2019-06-26
- 16. Wealth and debt: How are millennials doing? ArchivedStats in brief: 11-627-M2019029Description:
This infographic examines economic wellbeing for millennials (those between 25 and 34 years old in 2016) and provides a comparison with generation X at the same age (those between 25 and 34 years old in 1999). Information is provided on income, assets, debts and net worth.
Release date: 2019-04-18 - 17. Study: Economic well-being across generations of young Canadians: Are millennials better or worse off? ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201910820384Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2019-04-18
- 18. Study: The Wealth of Immigrant Families in Canada ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201910620385Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2019-04-16
- 19. The Wealth of Immigrant Families in Canada ArchivedArticles and reports: 11F0019M2019010Description:
While several studies have documented the evolution of the earnings of immigrants in Canada over the last three decades, the evolution of immigrants’ wealth has received relatively little attention. Using data from the Survey of Financial Security of 1999, 2005, 2012 and 2016, this study fills this gap. The study uncovers several key patterns.
Release date: 2019-04-16 - 20. Financial Expectations and Household Debt ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-626-X2019005Description:
This Economic Insights article quantifies the degree to which families who expect their financial situation to get better in the next two years have, all else equal, more debt than comparable families. The data are drawn from the Survey of Financial Security for 1999, 2005 and 2016. The term “family” is used to refer to family units and includes economic families and unattached individuals. Debt and income estimates are shown in 2016 dollars. The study shows that even after a large set of socioeconomic characteristics is controlled for, families who expect their financial situation to improve in the near future have significantly more debt and generally higher debt-to-income ratios than other families.
Release date: 2019-04-04
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- 11. Wealth and debt: How are millennials doing? ArchivedStats in brief: 11-627-M2019029Description:
This infographic examines economic wellbeing for millennials (those between 25 and 34 years old in 2016) and provides a comparison with generation X at the same age (those between 25 and 34 years old in 1999). Information is provided on income, assets, debts and net worth.
Release date: 2019-04-18 - 12. Study: Economic well-being across generations of young Canadians: Are millennials better or worse off? ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201910820384Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2019-04-18
- 13. Study: The Wealth of Immigrant Families in Canada ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201910620385Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2019-04-16
- 14. Study: Financial Expectations and Household Debt ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201909420386Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2019-04-04
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X201909319703Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2019-04-03
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X201908520383Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2019-03-26
- 17. Spotlight on Canadians and debt: Who's vulnerable? ArchivedStats in brief: 11-627-M2019016Description:
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 - Stats in brief: 11-001-X201813618145Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2018-05-16
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X201710215962Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2017-04-12
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X201515412444Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2015-06-03
Articles and reports (28)
Articles and reports (28) (10 to 20 of 28 results)
- 11. The Economic Well-being of Women in Canada ArchivedArticles and reports: 89-503-X201500154930Description:
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 - Articles and reports: 75-006-X201500114194Description:
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 - Articles and reports: 75-006-X201500114134Description:
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 - 14. Trends in Homeownership by Age and Household Income: Factors Associated with the Decision to Own, 1981 to 2006 ArchivedArticles and reports: 11F0027M2013083Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper examines why rates of homeownership have been increasing amongst young higher-income households, but declining among young lower-income households. For the period from 1981 to 2006, household data from the Census of Population, supplemented with information from the Survey of Financial Security, are employed to model the decision to own across the income distribution. The model assesses whether housing market conditions (e.g., the cost of renting versus owning), the financial condition of households (e.g., whether the household has sufficient wealth to make a standard down payment), and demographic factors (e.g., changing family composition) account for these diverging trends in housing demand.
Release date: 2013-01-29 - 15. The evolution of wealth over the life cycle ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X201200311690Geography: CanadaDescription:
Canadians accumulate wealth to deal with unforeseen circumstances, fund their children's education, invest in business opportunities and fund their retirement, among other reasons. Wealth is therefore a key indicator of household financial well-being. However, the financial and housing markets in which households invest have changed substantially. This study develops a synthetic cohort approach to examine the effect of these changes on the wealth accumulation of successive generations of Canadians' with a particular focus on younger households.
Release date: 2012-06-22 - Articles and reports: 75-001-X201100311529Geography: CanadaDescription:
This study examines the financial situation of individuals living in low-income families with at least one employed family member compared to low-income families with no employed family members and employed non-low-income families. It presents new findings from the Canadian Financial Capability Survey on the level of net worth, assets and debts, financial security and retirement preparation of these groups.
Release date: 2011-07-22 - Articles and reports: 75-001-X201100211455Geography: CanadaDescription:
Some households provide money, goods and services directly to help other households: these interhousehold transfers add up to a sizeable flow of economic resources between households. While measured by Statistics Canada surveys, voluntary interhousehold transfers are not included in the recipient household's total income. This article examines the conceptual and measurement issues related to voluntary interhousehold transfers, and provides a profile of voluntary interhousehold transfers in Canada. It uses recent data on interhousehold transfers from income, expenditure and wealth surveys.
Release date: 2011-05-25 - 18. The financial impact of student loans ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X201010113242Geography: CanadaDescription:
The student borrowing rate among postsecondary graduates increased between 1995 and 2005, with borrowers differing little from non-borrowers in terms of employment rates and total personal income. However, borrowers were less likely to have savings or investments, or own their own homes. Total debt for borrower and non-borrower graduates age 20 to 29 was similar, while borrowers had lower assets and net worth than non-borrowers.
Release date: 2010-03-23 - 19. Changes in family wealth ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X200810613212Geography: CanadaDescription:
Buoyed by rising incomes coupled with stable inflation and low interest rates, Canadians went on a spending spree between 1999 and 2005. However, much of the increased spending was financed through credit, as the personal savings rate slumped and per capita debt jumped. This paper divides families into seven cohorts, based on the year of birth of the major income recipient, and compares family assets and debts in 2005 with the situation in 1999 to provide a rough life-cycle portrait of Canadian families.
Release date: 2008-09-24 - 20. RRSP investments ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X200810213203Geography: CanadaDescription:
A wide variety of assets can be held in registered retirement savings plans ranging from investments with predictable values, like guaranteed investment certificates, to those whose values vary, like stocks of individual companies. Returns to these investments, and therefore income levels in retirement, can vary dramatically, depending on the economic climate and the mix of investments. This article examines the characteristics of families with RRSPs and the allocation of assets within their RRSPs according to the level of predictability of the return on investment.
Release date: 2008-03-18
Journals and periodicals (3)
Journals and periodicals (3) ((3 results))
- Journals and periodicals: 75-001-XGeography: CanadaDescription: This publication brings together and analyzes a wide range of labour and income data. Topics include youth in the labour market, pensions and retirement, work arrangements, education and training, and trends in family income. One section highlights new products, surveys, research projects and conferences. Another section uses charts and text to describe a variety of subjects related to labour and income. Each winter print issue contains an index of all published articles.
To find the latest updates on labour market and household issues such as gambling, minimum wage, retirement and unionization, please visit: Topics of interest on labour and income.
Release date: 2012-08-22 - Journals and periodicals: 13F0026MDescription:
The papers in this series are based on the Survey of Financial Security which is a study of what families own (assets) and what they owe (debts). Various topics are covered by this survey, such as the value of family assets (home; other property; vehicles; bank accounts; term deposits; life insurance; and investments in registered savings plans, bonds, mutual funds, stocks, etc.), the amount of family debts (amount owed on mortgages, car loans, credit cards, other charge accounts, student loans, etc.), major on-going expenses for housing and child care, and any employer pensions plans that members of the family belong to. Information is also available on the demographic, employment, income and educational characteristics of family members. This research paper series covers various topics relating to survey content, concepts and operations.
Release date: 2010-03-26 - 3. Canada's Retirement Income Programs ArchivedJournals and periodicals: 74-507-XGeography: CanadaDescription:
These products present extensive historical, up-to-date and detailed information covering the following topics: Old Age Security programs, registered pension plans (RPPs), registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs), trusteed pension funds, pension adjustment (PA), retirement compensation arrangements (RCAs), Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Quebec Pension Plan (QPP).
These products will be useful for a wide audience, including pension professionals (e.g., employee benefit and investment specialists), employers and policy analysts, as well as educational institutions whose curricula cover these increasingly important programs.
Important note: Please refer to the content note for specifics concerning the information available in each medium.
Release date: 2006-02-07
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