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Income Research Paper Series – Research Paper
Revising Statistics Canada's Low Income Measure (LIM)
Tables and figures
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Tables
Table 1 The 2006 after-tax LIM thresholds
Table 2 The original equivalence LIM scales fall into a middle ground
Table 3 Examples of current and proposed equivalence scales
Figures
Figure 1 Distribution of income by household type
Figure 2 Low income rate when economic family is replaced by household
Figure 3 Average equivalence factor for the Nth family member for various equivalence schemes
Figure 4 Low-income rate under different equivalence scales
Figure 5 Cumulative income distributions under different weighting schemes
Figure 6 Effect of the person weighting scheme on low-income rate
Figure 7 Economic family size by income quartile
Figure 8 Effects of all three modifications on low-income rate
Figure 9 Low income rates for unattached non-elderly persons (men)
Figure 10 Percentage of unattached individuals living with others
Figure 12 Low-income gap ratios under existing and revised LIMs
Figure 13 Low-income severity indexes under existing and revised LIMs
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