Chart F data table
Median household assets over the life cycle

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  Young adults Prime working years Middle working years Late working years Near retirement
$ per adult (’000)
1977 cohort 61.349 77.673 129.050 180.427 235.974
1984 cohort 48.039 93.028 138.018 206.972 ...
1999 cohort 54.580 118.355 ... ... ...
... not applicable
Note: The markets represent the periods for which data were available. Because data points were not available for the prime working years of the 1984 cohort and the middle working years of the 1977 cohort, they were estimated by taking the mid-value between the two nearest observable periods.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Survey of Consumer Finances, 1977 and 1984; Survey of Financial Security, 1999 and 2005.