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Proportion of households contributing to TFSA, RRP or RRSP in 2015 - Canada
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- Annual Income Estimates for Census Families and Individuals (T1 Family File) (8)
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- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2019006Description:
This interactive tool allows users to visualize income data of tax filers and their dependants by sex and age for Canada, provinces/territories and census metropolitan area/census agglomeration. It shows the most recent data available from the Annual income estimates for Census families and individuals (T1 Family file).
Release date: 2023-07-17 - 2. Sources of family income by family type, sub-provincial regions, T1 Family File: Interactive toolData Visualization: 71-607-X2019007Description:
This interactive tool allows users to visualize income data of census families and persons not in census families by type of family and income source for Canada, provinces/territories and census metropolitan area/census agglomeration. It shows the most recent data available from the Annual income estimates for Census families and individuals (T1 Family file). For the national and provincial levels, some data are presented from the year 2000 and onward.
Release date: 2023-07-17 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 72-212-X2023001Description: Data on income of census families, individuals and seniors are derived from the T1 Family File (T1FF). This file is based on information from the T1 form, Income Tax and Benefit Return, which Statistics Canada receives from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) thirteen months after the end of the taxation year.Release date: 2023-07-12
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 72-212-X2022001Description:
Data on income of census families, individuals and seniors are derived from income tax returns. The data for the products associated with this release are derived from the T1 file that Statistics Canada receives from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) thirteen months after the end of the taxation year.
Release date: 2022-08-09 - 5. T1 Family File, Final Estimates, 2019 ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 72-212-X2021001Description:
Data on income of census families, individuals and seniors are derived from the T1 Family File (T1FF). This file is based on information from the T1 form, Income Tax and Benefit Return, which Statistics Canada receives from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) thirteen months after the end of the taxation year.
Release date: 2021-07-15 - 6. T1 Family File, Final Estimates, 2018 ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 72-212-X2020001Description:
Data on income of census families, individuals and seniors are derived from income tax returns. The data for the products associated with this release are derived from the T1 file that Statistics Canada receives from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) thirteen months after the end of the taxation year.
Release date: 2020-09-02 - Articles and reports: 75F0002M2019008Description:
The primary objective of this study is to describe the general income trends pre- and post-release for veterans released from the regular forces since 1998. It also provides some directions for future work. This study is part of the Life After Service Studies (LASS) research program. LASS is a partnership between Veterans Affairs Canada, the Department of National Defence and Statistics Canada. For this income study, information on veterans was linked to the T1 Family File (income data on tax filers and their family) produced by Statistics Canada.
Release date: 2019-08-28 - Articles and reports: 75F0002M2018001Description:
This study looks at changes introduced in 2018 to the methodology used for the census family low income measure, based on the T1 Family File (T1FF; tax filer data). By making these changes, the methodology becomes better aligned with other data sources at Statistics Canada, such as the Census of Population and the Canadian Income Survey. To account for changes in the methodology, new T1FF standard tables on the census family low income measure (after-tax income), going back to 2004 data, are introduced.
Release date: 2018-04-05 - 9. Low Income Measure: Comparison of Two Data Sources, T1 Family File and 2016 Census of Population ArchivedArticles and reports: 75F0002M2018002Description:
This study looks at the differences in after-tax low income measure (LIM) statistics from two data sources which both use administrative tax data as their principal inputs: the 2016 Census of Population and the T1 Family file (T1FF). It presents a summary of the two data sources and compares after-tax LIM statistics by focussing on unit of analysis, LIM thresholds and the percentage of population below the LIM. The study also explores what factors users may want to consider when choosing one data source over the other.
Release date: 2018-04-05 - Articles and reports: 11F0019M2016381Description:
Changes in health status may affect not just the individuals who experience such changes, but also their family members. For example, if the main earner in a family loses his or her ability to generate income due to a health shock, it invariably affects the financial situation of the spouse and other dependents. In addition, spouses and working-age children may themselves increase or reduce their labour supply to make up for the lost income (“added worker effect”) or care for a sick family member (“caregiver effect”). Since consumption smoothing and self-insurance occur at the household level, the financial effects of health for other family members have important policy implications. To shed light on such effects, this study analyzes how one spouse’s cancer diagnosis affects the employment and earnings of the other spouse and (before-tax) total family income using administrative data from Canada.
Release date: 2016-07-22
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- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2019006Description:
This interactive tool allows users to visualize income data of tax filers and their dependants by sex and age for Canada, provinces/territories and census metropolitan area/census agglomeration. It shows the most recent data available from the Annual income estimates for Census families and individuals (T1 Family file).
Release date: 2023-07-17 - 2. Sources of family income by family type, sub-provincial regions, T1 Family File: Interactive toolData Visualization: 71-607-X2019007Description:
This interactive tool allows users to visualize income data of census families and persons not in census families by type of family and income source for Canada, provinces/territories and census metropolitan area/census agglomeration. It shows the most recent data available from the Annual income estimates for Census families and individuals (T1 Family file). For the national and provincial levels, some data are presented from the year 2000 and onward.
Release date: 2023-07-17
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- Articles and reports: 75F0002M2019008Description:
The primary objective of this study is to describe the general income trends pre- and post-release for veterans released from the regular forces since 1998. It also provides some directions for future work. This study is part of the Life After Service Studies (LASS) research program. LASS is a partnership between Veterans Affairs Canada, the Department of National Defence and Statistics Canada. For this income study, information on veterans was linked to the T1 Family File (income data on tax filers and their family) produced by Statistics Canada.
Release date: 2019-08-28 - Articles and reports: 75F0002M2018001Description:
This study looks at changes introduced in 2018 to the methodology used for the census family low income measure, based on the T1 Family File (T1FF; tax filer data). By making these changes, the methodology becomes better aligned with other data sources at Statistics Canada, such as the Census of Population and the Canadian Income Survey. To account for changes in the methodology, new T1FF standard tables on the census family low income measure (after-tax income), going back to 2004 data, are introduced.
Release date: 2018-04-05 - 3. Low Income Measure: Comparison of Two Data Sources, T1 Family File and 2016 Census of Population ArchivedArticles and reports: 75F0002M2018002Description:
This study looks at the differences in after-tax low income measure (LIM) statistics from two data sources which both use administrative tax data as their principal inputs: the 2016 Census of Population and the T1 Family file (T1FF). It presents a summary of the two data sources and compares after-tax LIM statistics by focussing on unit of analysis, LIM thresholds and the percentage of population below the LIM. The study also explores what factors users may want to consider when choosing one data source over the other.
Release date: 2018-04-05 - Articles and reports: 11F0019M2016381Description:
Changes in health status may affect not just the individuals who experience such changes, but also their family members. For example, if the main earner in a family loses his or her ability to generate income due to a health shock, it invariably affects the financial situation of the spouse and other dependents. In addition, spouses and working-age children may themselves increase or reduce their labour supply to make up for the lost income (“added worker effect”) or care for a sick family member (“caregiver effect”). Since consumption smoothing and self-insurance occur at the household level, the financial effects of health for other family members have important policy implications. To shed light on such effects, this study analyzes how one spouse’s cancer diagnosis affects the employment and earnings of the other spouse and (before-tax) total family income using administrative data from Canada.
Release date: 2016-07-22 - Articles and reports: 11F0019M2016379Description:
Comparative studies of intergenerational earnings and income mobility largely rank Canada as one of the most mobile countries among advanced economies, such as Denmark, Finland and Norway. The assertion that Canada is a highly mobile society is drawn from intergenerational income elasticity estimates reported in Corak and Heisz (1999). Corak and Heisz used data from the earlier version of the Intergenerational Income Database (IID), which tracked income of Canadian youth only into their early thirties. Recent theoretical literature, however, suggests that the relationship between childrens’ and parents’ lifetime income may not be accurately estimated when children’s income are not observed from their mid-careers— known as lifecycle bias. The present study addresses this concern by re-examining the extent of intergenerational earnings and income mobility in Canada using the updated version of the IID, which tracks children well into their mid-forties, when mid-career income are observed.
Release date: 2016-06-17 - Articles and reports: 11-626-X2016059Description:
This Economic Insights article examines the extent to which the lifetime income of children is correlated with the lifetime income of their fathers—a topic known as intergenerational income mobility. The analysis uses data from Statistics Canada’s Intergenerational Income Database, which links together children and their parents using tax files. The data provides information that permits the comparison of the income of children to those of parents at a similar stage of the lifecycle. A longer, more detailed study is also available.
Release date: 2016-06-17 - Articles and reports: 11F0019M2012343Geography: CanadaDescription:
The financial security of widowed and divorced women during their retirement years has long been a concern. This paper places this issue within the context of research on replacement rates, the extent to which family income during the working years (here, the mid-50s) is "replaced" as individuals move into their late 70s. Using a longitudinal database and fixed-effects econometric models, the paper assesses the effect of widowhood/widowerhood and divorce after age 55 on replacement rates during the retirement years.
Release date: 2012-06-20 - Articles and reports: 11F0027M2011074Geography: CanadaDescription:
Discussions of pension adequacy for elderly Canadians have used the rate at which income falls with age; the income replacement rate or the ratio of post-retirement income to pre-retirement income. Use of income streams to assess post-retirement welfare requires a standard against which adequacy of the replacement rates can be judged. Because some expenditures (for example, work-related expenses) can be expected to fall after retirement, a declining income stream does not necessarily signal financial problems for seniors. More importantly, income as normally measured captures only part of what is available to seniors if households possess assets, which in retirement are not being used to generate measured income.
This paper uses a different metric, referred to as "potential" income. Potential income is the sum of realized income and the income that could be realized from owned assets such as mutual funds and housing. Households prepare for retirement by saving and borrowing and investing the proceeds. The assets accumulated over a lifetime may or may not be drawn down in later years. If they are not, income streams underestimate the "potential" income available to support retirement. This paper takes this potential into account when comparing the pre- and post-retirement financial status of Canadian households.
Release date: 2011-11-21 - Articles and reports: 11F0019M2010328Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper examines the extent to which family income during working years is replaced during the retirement years. It does so by tracking cohorts as they age from their mid-50s to their late 70s, using a taxation-based longitudinal data source that covers 26 years from 1982 to 2007. Earlier work by the same authors examined this question with respect to the 50% of the population with strong labour force attachment during their mid-50s. This paper extends that work to include almost all Canadians (80% to 85% of the population). The adult-equivalent-adjusted family income available to the median Canadian during his or her late 70s is about 80% of that observed when the same person was in his or her mid-50s (a replacement rate of 0.8). Replacement rates in retirement are negatively correlated with income earned around age 55. Median replacement rates are 1.1 among individuals in the bottom income quintile, 0.75 in the middle quintile, and 0.7 in the top quintile. In retirement, public pensions and other transfers more than replace earnings and other income of bottom quintile individuals. However, some individuals have very low replacement rates. For example, 20% of individuals in the middle income quintile had replacement rates below 0.6. More recent cohorts had higher family incomes in retirement than did earlier cohorts as a result of higher earnings and private-pension income.
Release date: 2010-07-29 - 10. Income and the Outcomes of Children ArchivedArticles and reports: 11F0019M2006281Geography: CanadaDescription:
This research paper examines whether various measures of family income are associated with the cognitive, social/emotional, physical and behavioural development of children. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth were used to assess a range of measures of well-being among children aged 4-15 in 1998, whose family composition remained unchanged between 1994 and 1998. The study finds that regardless of age or how income is measured, higher family income is almost always associated with better child well-being. Among children in lower income families, incremental increases in household income are found to be associated with better child development outcomes. Increases in income continue to remain associated with better well-being, even once children are out of low income. In fact, the study does not find a point above which high income ceases to benefit children's development. In particular, children's cognitive and behavioural development measures appear to have the strongest associations with levels of family income.
The results show that changes in family income appear to be less important for child outcomes than levels of family income for 8-11- and 12-15-year-olds. However, for the 4-7-year-old group, changes in family income are more important ' particularly for emotional development scores. Analysis from the Youth in Transition Survey also finds similar relationships between the socio-economic status of the family and the developmental outcomes of children.
Release date: 2006-05-11
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 72-212-X2023001Description: Data on income of census families, individuals and seniors are derived from the T1 Family File (T1FF). This file is based on information from the T1 form, Income Tax and Benefit Return, which Statistics Canada receives from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) thirteen months after the end of the taxation year.Release date: 2023-07-12
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 72-212-X2022001Description:
Data on income of census families, individuals and seniors are derived from income tax returns. The data for the products associated with this release are derived from the T1 file that Statistics Canada receives from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) thirteen months after the end of the taxation year.
Release date: 2022-08-09 - 3. T1 Family File, Final Estimates, 2019 ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 72-212-X2021001Description:
Data on income of census families, individuals and seniors are derived from the T1 Family File (T1FF). This file is based on information from the T1 form, Income Tax and Benefit Return, which Statistics Canada receives from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) thirteen months after the end of the taxation year.
Release date: 2021-07-15 - 4. T1 Family File, Final Estimates, 2018 ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 72-212-X2020001Description:
Data on income of census families, individuals and seniors are derived from income tax returns. The data for the products associated with this release are derived from the T1 file that Statistics Canada receives from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) thirteen months after the end of the taxation year.
Release date: 2020-09-02 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M2000005Description:
This paper describes the collection method and content of the 1999 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) income interview.
Release date: 2000-10-05 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1998006Description:
This paper describes the collection method and content of the 1999 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) income interview.
Release date: 1998-12-30 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1996006Description:
This paper describes the collection method and content of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) 1996 income interview.
Release date: 1997-12-31 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1997013Description:
This paper describes the collection method and content of the 1997 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) income interview.
Release date: 1997-12-31 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993001Description:
This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of an approach to collecting income data being tested for the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) whereby respondents would be encouraged to refer to their T1 income tax forms.
Release date: 1995-12-30 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1994008Description:
This document describes the survey content for the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) income data questionnaire and explains the interview process.
Release date: 1995-12-30
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