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Most minimum-wage workers live at home with their parents |
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Minimum wage |
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Total employees | Total | Incidence | |
’000 | ’000 | % | |
Total | 13,658.20 | 586.9 | 4.3 |
Member of a couple | 7,882.20 | 145.3 | 1.8 |
Spouse not employed | 1,498.10 | 34.5 | 2.3 |
Spouse unemployed | 299 | 8.6 | 2.9 |
Spouse not in the labour force | 1,199.10 | 25.9 | 2.2 |
Less than 55 | 771.5 | 12.7 | 1.6 |
55 and over | 427.6 | 13.2 | 3.1 |
Spouse employed | 6,384.10 | 110.8 | 1.7 |
Earning minimum wage or less | 91.6 | 6.9 | 7.5 |
Earning more than minimum wage | 5,414.80 | 84.7 | 1.6 |
Self-employed | 877.6 | 19.2 | 2.2 |
Head of family, no spouse present | 963.6 | 34 | 3.5 |
Youngest child less than 18 | 833.2 | 31.7 | 3.8 |
No children, or children 18 or older | 130.5 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
Son, daughter or other relative living with family | 2,543.40 | 338.9 | 13.3 |
15 to 19, in school | 467.9 | 166 | 35.5 |
15 to 19, not in school | 335.7 | 77.8 | 23.2 |
20 to 24, in school | 220.7 | 26.5 | 12 |
20 to 24, not in school | 558.5 | 38.6 | 6.9 |
25 or over, in school | 57.4 | 2.3 | 4 |
25 or over, not in school | 903.3 | 27.7 | 3.1 |
Unattached individual | 2,233.10 | 68 | 3 |
Living alone | 1,443.30 | 35.2 | 2.4 |
15 to 24 | 128.9 | 9.2 | 7.1 |
25 to 54 | 1,063.40 | 17.5 | 1.6 |
55 and over | 251 | 8.5 | 3.4 |
Living with non-relatives | 789.8 | 32.8 | 4.2 |
15 to 24 | 251.8 | 18.3 | 7.3 |
25 to 54 | 500.9 | 13 | 2.6 |
55 and over | 37.1 | 1.5 | 4 |
Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, 2005 |