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Table 4
Average income

  Individuals Families
1982 1992 2004 1982 1992 2004
2004 $ ('000)
Bottom 5% -90 0 0 -12 2 2
Bottom 10% -5 2 2 -1 6 6
Bottom 20% 2 5 5 6 10 10
20% to 40% 14 14 14 25 23 25
40% to 60% 25 23 25 42 40 43
60% to 80% 40 37 40 63 62 70
Top 20% 79 77 93 120 124 158
Top 10% 102 100 128 153 160 215
Top 5% 133 130 178 197 206 296
Top 1% 269 268 429 380 404 684
Top 0.1% 852 822 1,641 1,143 1,196 2,493
Top 0.01% 2,903 2,547 5,92 3,658 3,49 8,443
Source: Statistics Canada, T1 Family File.