Table 4
Family-income inequality, after-tax data, Gini coefficient, Canada

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Table 4
Family-income inequality, after-tax data, Gini coefficient, Canada
Table summary
This table displays the results of Family-income inequality Census data, Taxation data and Survey data, calculated using Gini coefficient units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Census data Taxation dataNote 1 Survey data
Gini coefficient
1980 0.308 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0.286
1985 0.314 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0.290
1990 0.307 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0.286
1995 0.319 0.343 0.293
2000 0.322 0.368 0.317
2005 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0.374 0.317
2010 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0.372 0.317
.. not available for a specific reference period
Note 1.

Authors' calculations based on taxation data from the source mentioned below.

Return to note 1 referrer

Note: In all cases the unit of analysis is the individual, with the adult-equivalent-adjusted family income assigned to each individual in the family.
Sources: M. Frenette, D. Green, and K. Milligan. 2007. “The tale of the tails: Canadian income inequality in the 1980s and 1990s.” Canadian Journal of Economics 40 (3): 734–764 (for census data); Statistics Canada, Longitudinal Administative Databank, 1995 to 2010 (for taxation data), and CANSIM table 202-0709 (based on the Survey of Consumer Finances and the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics) (for survey data).
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