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Income Research Paper Series – Research Paper
Low income Measurement in Canada: What do different Lines and Indexes tell us?
- Main page
- Introduction
- A comparison of LICO, LIMs and MBM
- Low income indexes under alternative lines
- Who fall between the lines?
- Who contributes more to overall low income? A decomposition analysis
- Summary and conclusions
- Tables and figures
- Appendix 1 Methodology
- References
- More information
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