Table 3
Proportion of cases assigned and cases with support obligations authorized by provincial legislation, March 2009, seven census metropolitan areas

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Census metropolitan areas Total cases Cases assigned to Crown Authority of order-provincial legislation2
number percent percent
Halifax 3,810 100 15.7 65.1
lowest income neighbourhoods 790 100 27.6 76.5
highest income neighbourhoods 570 100 7.9 55.2
Moncton1 1,735 100 26.0 76.7
lowest income neighbourhoods 350 100 32.0 81.5
highest income neighbourhoods 250 100 19.5 74.1
Saint John1 1,995 100 27.9 73.6
lowest income neighbourhoods 380 100 50.3 89.2
highest income neighbourhoods 295 100 19.4 66.8
Regina 1,325 100 5.0 62.2
lowest income neighbourhoods 300 100 9.0 72.9
highest income neighbourhoods 195 100 1.0 51.4
Saskatoon 1,325 100 3.4 54.9
lowest income neighbourhoods 320 100 7.5 61.3
highest income neighbourhoods 215 100 0.9 44.4
Calgary 7,380 100 9.0 60.2
lowest income neighbourhoods 1,980 100 15.2 70.9
highest income neighbourhoods 1,170 100 2.3 49.2
Edmonton 9,760 100 8.2 59.0
lowest income neighbourhoods 2,260 100 14.6 71.4
highest income neighbourhoods 1,635 100 3.4 48.1
Total 27,330 100 11.6 62.4
lowest income neighbourhoods 6,380 100 18.8 73.1
highest income neighbourhoods 4,330 100 5.5 52.0
1. In New Brunswick, cases assigned includes cases with current payment assigned, along with cases that do not have a current assignment, but have arrears and the total amount of arrears is owed to the Crown.
2. Excludes cases with unknown order authority. In most instances, these are cases where the payment obligations have expired and the case remains open to collect arrears.
Note: Includes non-interjurisdiction support order and interjurisdictional support order-out cases with at least one child beneficiary under the age of 20 and with a known location.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Survey of Maintenance Enforcement Programs and 2006 Census of Population.
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