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Low-income rates of immigrants, Canada, 1980 to 2010
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The title of the graph is “Chart 2, Low-income rates of immigrants, Canada, 1980 to 2010.”
This is a line graph.
The x-axis shows years.
The y-axis title is “rate (percent).”
Description:
This chart shows low-income rates (in percentage) for immigrants in Canada and for the Canadian-born, from 1980 to 2010. One of the two series of rates shown is based on Census data (before-tax low-income cut-offs) from the Census microdata files for the years 1981 to 2000, and the other, on taxation data (after-tax fixed low-income measure) from the Longitudinal Administrative Databank for the years 1995 to 2010. The rates shown are for the following groups: the Canadian-born, and immigrants in Canada for 1 to 5 years, for 6 to 10 years and for 11 to 15 years. For the entire period, low-income rates are highest among recent immigrants (immigrants in Canada for 1 to 5 years). The Canadian-born have the lowest rates for the period from 1985 to 2010. In 1980, the low-income rate for immigrants in Canada for 11 to 15 years is lower, at 14.4%, than that of the Canadian-born, at 17.2% (both rates are based on Census data). In 1995, low-income rates were highest for all immigrant groups; for recent immigrants, they were at 47.0% (rate based on Census data) and at 45.7% (rate based on taxation data). From 1980 to 1995, low-income rates among all immigrant groups increased, and from 1995 to 2000, they decreased. The highest low-income rate among the Canadian-born was 19.6% in 1995 (rate based on taxation data).
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