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Table 8 Most minimum-wage workers live with their parents

  Total employees Minimum wage
Total Incidence
'000 '000 %
Member of a couple1 8,222.1 217.8 2.6
Spouse employed 6,570.5 161.3 2.5
Earning minimum wage or less 133.8 15.3 11.4
Earning more than minimum wage 5,477.4 118.6 2.2
Self-employed 959.3 27.5 2.9
Spouse unemployed 1,619.4 55.5 3.4
Head of household, no spouse 998.0 44.4 4.4
Youngest child less than 18 494.1 19.6 4.0
Youngest child age 18 to 24 147.7 4.4 3.0
No child or child age 25 and over 356.1 20.3 5.7
Son, daughter or other relative living with family2 2,587.8 452.1 17.5
Student, full time 656.6 238.2 36.3
Student, part time 105.9 16.7 15.8
Not a student 1,813.1 207.1 11.4
Single 2,339.4 91.5 3.9
Living alone 1,552.4 45.0 2.9
Student, full or part time 75.8 6.0 7.8
Not a student 1,431.4 35.2 2.5
Living with non-related persons 786.9 46.5 5.9
Student, full or part time 85.4 9.3 10.9
Not a student 697.5 37.0 5.3
1. The sum of persons with a working or non-working spouse does not add up to the total number of persons with spouses since certain spouses may have been outside the target group.
2. The question concerning education status is not asked for persons 65 and over. For this reason, the sum of the totals based on education status for "non-family persons" and "son, daughter and other related person living in the family" is not exactly equal to the total number of persons for those two categories.
Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, 2009.