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Table 11
Low-income dominance, test statistics are computed for relative low-income lines between 15% to 70% provincial median income

Notes: B.C. = British Columbia; Man. = Manitoba; Sask. = Saskatchewan; Alta. = Alberta; Ont. = Ontario; P.E.I. = Prince Edward Island; Que.= Quebec; N.B. = New Brunswick; N.S. = Nova Scotia; N.L. = Newfoundland and Labrador. 1 in the cell indicates that the column first-order dominates the row at 5% level; similar interpretation for 2 (second-order) and 3 (third-order) dominance. The first (second) parenthesis indicates the lower-bound (upper-bound) of stochastic dominance, at 5% significance level, at given order condition. The lower (upper) bound thresholds are censored at 15% and 70% of the provincial median income respectively. Z indicates that dominance relation can not be found up to third-order condition. Test of dominance is evaluated at every x value in the sample between 15% and 70% of the provincial median income, where x is equivalent income based on the low-income cutoff equivalence scale and cost-of-living deflator. Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, 2000.
Low income rankings	Model w/ relative low income lines	Base-model rankings	B.C.	Ont.	Alta.	Sask.	Que.	Man.	N.L.	N.S.	N.B.	P.E.I.
1	B.C.	B.C.		1 (15.0) (70.0)	1 (31.4) (70.0)	1 (31.1) (70.0)	1 (15.0) (70.0)	1 (15.0) (70.0)	1 (15.0) (42.5)	1 (15.0) (70.0)	1 (15.0) (70.0)	1 (15.0) (70.0)
2	Ont.	Que.			1 (53.7) (70.0)	1 (34.3) (52.8)	1 (59.3) (70.0)	1 (36.1) (49.9)	1 (15.0) (34.2)	1 (32.4) (49.4)	1 (23.2) (67.1)	1 (23.3) (70.0)
3	Alta.	Man.				Z	1 (15.0) (25.6)	1 (21.8) (24.1)	2 (15.6) (46.6)	1 (15.0) (32.2)	1 (15.0) (35.3)	1 (14.6) (66.5)
3	Sask.	Sask.					2 (19.7) (33.4)	1 (21.3) (23.8)	1 (15.0) (32.2)	1 (17.8) (30.1)	1 (15.3) (33.5)	1 (15.47) (70.0)
5	Que.	Alta.						1 (44.6) (48.6)	1 (20.6) (34.2)	1 (33.2) (37.5)	1 (28.9) (54.5)	1 (27.4) (70.0)
6	Man.	Ont.							2 (15.0) (40.9)	2 (15.0) (17.5)	1 (31.0) (32.2)	1 (28.0) (70.0)
7	N.L.	N.L.								Z	1 (42.3) (62.9)	1 (34.0) (70.0)
7	N.S.	N.S.									1 (46.4) (47.5)	1 (34.5) (70.0)
9	N.B.	N.B.										1 (37.0) (70.0)
10	P.E.I.	P.E.I.