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Income Research Paper Series – Research Paper
Low income Measurement in Canada: What do different Lines and Indexes tell us?
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- Introduction
- A comparison of LICO, LIMs and MBM
- Low income indexes under alternative lines
- Who fall between the lines?
- Who contributes more to overall low income? A decomposition analysis
- Summary and conclusions
- Tables and figures
- Appendix 1 Methodology
- References
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Acknowledgements
I like to thank Indranil Dutta, Kuan Xu, Willa Rea, Brian Murphy, Karen Mihorean and participants at the 2009 Canadian Economic Association Conference for their comments and suggestions.
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Published by authority of the Minister responsible for Statistics Canada.
© Minister of Industry, 2010
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Catalogue no. 75F0002M
Frequency: Occasional
ISBN 978-1-100-15829-7
Ottawa
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