For couple and lone parent families by family composition:
- # of persons in Low Income
- % of Persons in low income
- Average low-income gap ratio
With:
- 0 children
- 1 child
- 2 children
- 3+ children
- Total
This product includes a custom tabulation at standard T1FF geographies as well as Census Subdivisions. Census Subdivisions are indicated by Level of Geography = 91.
These tables provide counts of persons in low income, by family type and by the number of children in each family. Where the original table provided counts of persons in low income in families with 0, 1, 2 and 3+ children, the custom table has added a ‘With Children’ category.
Additionally, the following counts have been added to the table, available by family type and number of children:
- # of persons 0-6 in low income
- # of persons 0-12 in low income
- # of persons 0-17 in low income
- # of persons 18-64 in low income
- # of persons 55+ Males in low income
- # of persons 55+ Females in low income
- # of persons 65 + in low income
- # of persons 65+ Males in low income
- # of persons 65+ Females in low income
- # of persons 75+ Males in low income
- # of persons 75+ Females in low income
In 2018, Statistics Canada updated the Census Family Low Income Measure methodology. The following tables provide data using the updated methodology. For more information on the methodology change, please read "Methodology Changes: Census Family Low Income Measure Based on the T1 Family File" from Statistics Canada's Income Research Paper Series.
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Note that the heading “With 0 children, With children, With 1 child, etc.” refers to the family composition (Row 3) regardless of the age of the family members. Number of persons (Row 2) might include parents, children and persons not in census families.
For example, where Row 2 indicates “# of persons 55+ Males in low income” and Row 3 indicates “With 1 child”, the count provided could include:
- families where there is a male parent over 55 years of age who has one child, OR
- a family in which a male over 55 years of age is living with his elderly parents (the male over 55 is the child in this family).
Under “# of persons 0-12 in low income” and “With 2 children”, the count will include all families with at least one child that is aged 0-12 and another child OF ANY AGE.
Under “# of persons 0-17 in low income” and “With Children”, the count will include:
- families where at least one is aged 0-17, OR
- families where there is a parent aged 17 or under.