Table 3.4.A
Individual Market Basket Measure poverty rate among persons aged 15 to 64 years, by disability status / severity and selected household living arrangements, 2015 and 2020


Table 3.4.A
Individual Market Basket Measure poverty rate among persons aged 15 to 64 years, by disability status / severity and selected household living arrangements, 2015 and 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Individual Market Basket Measure poverty rate among persons aged 15 to 64 years. The information is grouped by Disability status / severity and household living arrangment (appearing as row headers), 2020, 2015, percent and 95% confidence interval (appearing as column headers).
Disability status / severity and household living arrangment 2020 2015
percent 95% confidence interval percent 95% confidence interval
lower upper lower upper
Total, persons with disabilities
Part of couple, no children 6.0Note * Table 3.4.A Note § 4.7 7.7 10.3Table 3.4.A Note § 8.6 12.2
Part of couple, with children 3.3Note * Table 3.4.A Note † 2.4 4.6 11.4Table 3.4.A Note § 9.7 13.3
Lone parent 18.4Note * Table 3.4.A Note † Table 3.4.A Note § 14.5 23.1 39.5Table 3.4.A Note † Table 3.4.A Note § 34.4 44.8
Living with parent(s) 4.8Note * 3.7 6.1 14.2Table 3.4.A Note † Table 3.4.A Note § 12.1 16.5
Living alone 28.0Note * Table 3.4.A Note † Table 3.4.A Note § 25.0 31.3 47.2Table 3.4.A Note † Table 3.4.A Note § 43.6 50.9
Persons with milder disabilities
Part of couple, no children 4.5 3.1 6.4 6.5 5.0 8.4
Part of couple, with children 2.5Note * Table 3.4.A Note † Table 3.4.A Note § 1.6 3.9 7.5 6.1 9.2
Lone parent 14.1Note * Table 3.4.A Note † 10.0 19.6 36.2Note E: Use with caution Table 3.4.A Note † Table 3.4.A Note § 28.9 44.1
Living with parent(s) 3.9Note * 2.9 5.3 12.7Table 3.4.A Note † Table 3.4.A Note § 10.3 15.5
Living alone 18.4Note * Table 3.4.A Note † 15.2 22.0 35.2Table 3.4.A Note † Table 3.4.A Note § 30.8 39.9
Persons with more severe disabilities
Part of couple, no children 9.2Note * Table 3.4.A Note § Table 3.4.A Note ‡ 6.6 12.5 15.6Table 3.4.A Note § Table 3.4.A Note ‡ 12.5 19.4
Part of couple, with children 5.0Note * Table 3.4.A Note † 3.1 8.0 19.1Table 3.4.A Note § Table 3.4.A Note ‡ 15.3 23.7
Lone parent 22.7Note * Table 3.4.A Note † Table 3.4.A Note § 16.4 30.4 43.2Table 3.4.A Note † Table 3.4.A Note § 36.3 50.3
Living with parent(s) 6.2Note * 4.2 8.9 16.7Table 3.4.A Note § 13.3 20.8
Living alone 42.1Note * Table 3.4.A Note † Table 3.4.A Note § Table 3.4.A Note ‡ 36.9 47.5 62.9Table 3.4.A Note † Table 3.4.A Note § Table 3.4.A Note ‡ 57.7 67.9
Persons without disabilities
Part of couple, no children 4.3Note * 3.9 4.8 7.2 6.6 7.8
Part of couple, with children 4.3Note * 3.9 4.6 8.8Table 3.4.A Note † 8.3 9.3
Lone parent 13.3Note * Table 3.4.A Note † 11.7 15.1 26.8Table 3.4.A Note † 24.6 29.1
Living with parent(s) 4.0Note * 3.6 4.4 9.4Table 3.4.A Note † 8.8 10.0
Living alone 17.9Note * Table 3.4.A Note † 16.6 19.3 23.6Table 3.4.A Note † 22.1 25.2
E use with caution
Note *

significantly different from 2015 estimate for the same disability status / severity and household living arrangement (p < 0.05)

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Note †

significantly different from estimate for those living as part of a couple with no children in the same year and disability status / severity (p < 0.05)

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Note §

significantly different from estimate for persons without disabilities in the same year and household living arrangement (p < 0.05)

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Note ‡

significantly different from estimate for persons with milder disabilities in the same year and household living arrangement (p < 0.05)

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Note: The sum of the values for each category may differ from the total due to rounding.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Survey on Disability, 2017 and 2022.
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