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Wednesday, February 5, 2003

Low-income cutoffs for 2002 

Low-income cutoffs (LICOs) for 2002, before and after taxes, are now available.

LICOs are income thresholds, determined by analysing family expenditure data, below which families will likely devote a larger share of income to the necessities of food, shelter and clothing than the average family would. To reflect differences in the costs of necessities among different community and family sizes, LICOs are defined for five community-size and seven family-size categories. LICOs are updated each year using the annual Consumer Price Index.

Although LICOs are often referred to as poverty lines, they have no official status as such, and Statistics Canada does not recommend their use for this purpose.

Low-income cutoffs for 2002, after tax (1992 base)
  Rural areas Urban areas
  Population less than  30,000 Population  30,000  to  99,999 Population  100,000  to  499,999 Population  500,000  and over
$
Size of family unit          
1 person 10,429 12,055 13,192 13,399 15,907
2 persons 12,726 14,710 16,097 16,349 19,410
3 persons 16,096 18,604 20,360 20,679 24,550
4 persons 20,047 23,172 25,358 25,755 30,576
5 persons 22,407 25,898 28,341 28,786 34,174
6 persons 24,766 28,624 31,324 31,817 37,773
7 or more persons 27,126 31,351 34,308 34,848 41,372

Low-income cutoffs for 2002, before tax (1992 base)
  Rural areas Urban areas
  Population less than  30,000 Population  30,000  to  99,999 Population  100,000  to  499,999 Population 500,000  and over
$
Size of family unit          
1 person 13,311 15,267 16,407 16,521 19,261
2 persons 16,639 19,083 20,508 20,651 24,077
3 persons 20,694 23,732 25,505 25,684 29,944
4 persons 25,050 28,729 30,875 31,090 36,247
5 persons 28,002 32,113 34,512 34,754 40,518
6 persons 30,954 35,498 38,150 38,418 44,789
7 or more persons 33,907 38,882 41,788 42,082 49,060

For more information, refer to the publication Low-income cutoffs from 1992 to 2001 and low-income measures from 1991 to 2000, (75F0002MIE, 2002, no. 5, free), available on Statistics Canada's website (). From the Our products and services page, under Browse our Internet publications, choose Free, then Personal finance and household finance.

To order this report or custom tabulations, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Client Services (1-888-297-7355; 613-951-7355; fax: 613-951-3012; income@statcan.gc.ca), Income Statistics Division.



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