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Table 3
Income cut-off as a proportion of median income

  Individuals Families
1982 1992 2004 1982 1992 2004
%
25% 44 51 48 50 50 49
50% 100 100 100 100 100 100
75% 177 180 181 163 174 180
90% 258 273 282 235 258 277
Top 5% 322 339 364 294 324 358
Top 1% 572 601 737 501 558 707
Top 0.1% 1,544 1,743 2,644 1,301 1,511 2,425
Top 0.01% 5,475 5,723 11,552 4,243 4,934 9,976
Source: Statistics Canada, T1 Family File