Chart 15.1
Average age of retirement1 for employees and for the self-employed, Canada, 1976 to 2004
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1. The average is computed by taking into account the ages of Labour Force Survey respondents who left the labour force within the past 12 montsh and gave "retired" as their reason for not being currently employed. An exact computional procedure has been published in Gower (1997).
Source: Labour Force Survey (retrieved from Statistics Canada's CANSIM database).
Chart source: Statistics Canada, 2008, New Frontiers of Research on Retirement, catalogue number 75-511-XWE.
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