Poverty Profile: Research and Publications

Statistics Canada's low income cut-offs are updated each year according to the change in the cost of living as measured by the Consumer Price Index. The figures in Table 1 were calculated by the National Council of Welfare on the basis of a projected inflation rate of four percent for 1988. Table 2 gives the low income cut-offs for 1980 through 1987.

Statistics Canada's low income cut-offs are updated each year according to the change in the cost of living as measured by the Consumer Price Index. The figures in Table 1 were calculated by the National Council of Welfare on the basis of a projected inflation rate of four percent for 1987. Table 2 gives the low income cut-offs for 1980 through 1986.

Statistics Canada's low income cut-offs are updated each year according to the change in the cost of living as measured by the Consumer Price Index. The figures in Table 1 were calculated by the National Council of Welfare on the basis of a projected inflation rate of 4.3 percent for 1986. Table 2 gives the low income cut-offs for 1980 through 1985.

Certain groups in Canadian society - single-parent families, the disabled, elderly widows, native persons, those with limited education - face a higher than average risk of poverty, whatever the state of the economy. The recession of the early 'eighties brought rising unemployment which, in turn, has added thousands more to the low-income population - an estimated 874,000 from 1980 to 1984. The 'n...

Statistics Canada's low income cut-offs are updated each year according to the change in the cost of living as measured by the Consumer Price Index. The figures in Table 1 were calculated by the National Council of Welfare on the basis of a projected inflation rate of 4 percent for 1985. Table 2 gives the low income cut-offs for 1980 through 1984.

Statistics Canada's low income cut-offs are updated each year according to the change in the cost of living as measured by the Consumer Price Index. The figures in Table 1 were calculated by the National Council of Welfare on the basis of a projected inflation rate of 5 percent for 1984. Table 2 gives the low income cut-offs for 1980 through 1983.

Statistics Canada's low income cut-offs are updated each year according to the change in the cost of living as measured by the Consumer Price Index. The figures in Table 1 were calculated by the National Council of Welfare on the basis of a projected inflation rate of 7 percent for 1983. Table 2 gives the low income cut-offs for 1980, 1981 and 1982.

This paper presents the National Council of Welfare's estimates of the revised Statistics Canada low income cut-offs for 1982. We do not provide estimates of the Canadian Council on Social Development's poverty lines since they are under review. We have dropped the Senate Committee's poverty lines because they are difficult to measure and are rarely used.

There is no poverty line for all of Canada. Three different definitions of poverty provide three methods for calculating poverty lines. Moreover each approach varies its poverty lines according to family size, so in fact there are three sets of poverty lines from which to choose: low income cut-offs Canadian Council on Social Development poverty lines Senate Committee poverty lines.

The statistics presented are taken from Statistics Canada's Income Distributions by Size in Canada: Preliminary Estimates, 1980. In 1980 an estimated 639,000 Canadian families were poor. In percentage terms this represents 10.4% of all families (639,000 out of a total 6,122,000). In otherwords one in every ten families lived in poverty.

There is no poverty line for all of Canada. Three different definitions of poverty provide three methods for calculating poverty lines. Moreover each approach varies its poverty lines according to family size, so in fact there are three sets of poverty lines from which to choose: low income cut-offs Canadian Council on Social Development poverty lines Senate Committee poverty lines.

The objectives of this report are to describe poor women, to examine why they are poor, and to recommend ways of improving their situation. By presenting new statistical information on low income women, it will show how they differ from other Canadians. By following women through the various stages of their lives, it will demonstrate that the majority of Canadian women, whatever their backgrounds,...