Description for Chart 1
Low-income rate in Canada, 1976 to 2011

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The title of the graph is "Chart 1 Low-income rate in Canada, 1976 to 2011."
This is a line chart.
There are in total 36 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 8 and ends at 16 with ticks every 1 points.
There are 1 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "rate (percent)."
The units of the horizontal axis are years from 1976 to 2011.
The title of series 1 is "All persons."
The minimum value is 8.8 occurring in 2011.
The maximum value is 15.2 occurring in 1996.

Data table for chart 1
  rate (percent)
1976 13.0
1977 13.0
1978 12.2
1979 12.6
1980 11.6
1981 11.6
1982 12.4
1983 14.0
1984 13.7
1985 13.0
1986 12.1
1987 11.9
1988 10.8
1989 10.2
1990 11.8
1991 13.2
1992 13.3
1993 14.1
1994 14.0
1995 14.5
1996 15.2
1997 15.0
1998 13.7
1999 13.0
2000 12.5
2001 11.2
2002 11.6
2003 11.6
2004 11.4
2005 10.8
2006 10.3
2007 9.1
2008 9.3
2009 9.5
2010 9.0
2011 8.8
Note:
Based on after-tax, after-transfer income. The rate is the percentage of people with a family income below the low-income cut-offs (LICOs), 1992 base.
Source:
Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 202-0802 (based on the Survey of Consumer Finances and the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics).
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