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Table 9
Low-income dominance, test statistics are computed for low-income lines between $5,000 and $20,000, square-root family size equivalence scale

Low income rankings	Province	Low-income cutoff headcount rates	B.C.	Man.	Que.	Sask.	Alta.	Ont.	N.L.	N.S.	N.B.	P.E.I.
1	B.C.	15.1		1 (5,000) (7,570)	1 (9,988) (14,980)	1 (5,000) (20,000)	1 (5,000) (20,000)	1 (5,000) (20,000)	1 (5,000) (11,459)	1 (5,000) (20,000)	1 (5,000) (20,000)	1 (5,000) (20,000)
2	Man.	14.8			1 (14,283) (15,081)	2 (13,006) (20,000)	2 (12,452) (20,000)	1 (7,332) (20,000)	1 (5,000) (10,478)	1 (6,298) (20,000)	1 (5,804) (20,000)	1 (6,793) (20,000)
3	Que.	13.4				1 (13,855) (20,000)	1 (11,883) (20,000)	1 (7,970) (20,000)	1 (5,000) (9,829)	1 (8,899) (20,000)	1 (5,000) (20,000)	1 (7,469) (20,000)
4	Sask.	13.2					Z	1 (17,158) (20,000)	2 (5,000) (11,814)	1 (5,885) (8,019)	1 (5,000) (10,317)	1 (5,000) (14,179)
4	Alta.	10.9						1 (6,691) (10,299)	2 (5,220) (11,754)	1 (5,000) (8,287)	1 (5,000) (10,557)	1 (6,607) (16,179)
6	Ont.	11.1							3 (5,000) (13,107)	Z	1 (5,121) (7,126)	1 (9,945) (13,991)
7	N.L.	11.6								1 (13,864) (18,871)	1 (10,470) (20,000)	1 (9,813) (20,000)
7	N.S.	10.8									1 (13,147) (17,488)	1 (14,794) (19,450)
9	N.B.	9.2										Z
9	P.E.I.	9.1
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 $5,000 and $20,000 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 zero and $20,000, where x is equivalent income based on low-income cutoff equivalence scale and cost-of-living deflator. Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, 2000.