Distribution categories

The DHEA estimates for assets, liabilities and net worth include eight separate distribution variables. Households are grouped by province, age group, household type (multiple-person vs. one-person), housing tenure, equivalized household disposable income quintile, main source of household income, generation, and household wealth quintile. Province, age group, household type and housing tenure are based on definitions used in the SFS. When possible, the distribution variables are crossed together to give more detailed distributions. In particular, the DHEA also include cross-tabulated distributions of the totals for assets, liabilities and net worth that include region by age group, region by equivalized household disposable income quintile, and equivalized household disposable income quintile by age group.