Statistics by subject – Income, pensions, spending and wealth

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This series provides detailed documentation on income developments, including survey design issues, data quality evaluation and exploratory research.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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This study looks at changes introduced in 2018 to the methodology used for the census family low income measure, based on the T1 Family File (T1FF; tax filer data). By making these changes, the methodology becomes better aligned with other data sources at Statistics Canada, such as the Census of Population and the Canadian Income Survey. To account for changes in the methodology, new T1FF standard tables on the census family low income measure (after-tax income), going back to 2004 data, are introduced.

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This study looks at the differences in after-tax low income measure (LIM) statistics from two data sources which both use administrative tax data as their principal inputs: the 2016 Census of Population and the T1 Family file (T1FF). It presents a summary of the two data sources and compares after-tax LIM statistics by focussing on unit of analysis, LIM thresholds and the percentage of population below the LIM. The study also explores what factors users may want to consider when choosing one data source over the other.

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This table presents family Market Basket Measure (MBM) low-income status, economic family structure, family size of economic family, ages of economic family members and number of earners in the economic family for economic families in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents individual Market Basket Measure (MBM) low-income status, household living arrangements for persons not in economic families, age and sex for persons not in economic families aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents household income statistics, structural type of dwelling and household type including census family structure for private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents immigrant status and period of immigration, economic family income decile group, age and sex for the population in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents low-income indicators, individual low-income status, industry - North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 2012 and work activity during the reference year for the population aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents income statistics, occupation - National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016, industry - North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 2012 and work activity during the reference year for the population aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents low-income indicators, individual low-income status, occupation - National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016 and work activity during the reference year for the population aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents mother tongue, income statistics, highest certificate, diploma or degree, immigrant status and period of immigration, work activity during the reference year, age and sex for the population aged 15 years and over who worked in 2015, in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents first official language spoken, income statistics, highest certificate, diploma or degree, immigrant status and period of immigration, work activity during the reference year, age and sex for the population aged 15 years and over who worked in 2015, in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents income statistics, occupation - National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016, work activity during the reference year, age and sex for the population aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents income sources and taxes, income statistics, occupation - National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016 and work activity during the reference year for the population aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories and census metropolitan areas.

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This table presents employment income groups , occupation - National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016, work activity during the reference year, age and sex for the population aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories and census metropolitan areas.

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This table presents after-tax income groups, occupation - National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016 and work activity during the reference year for the population aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories and census metropolitan areas.

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This table presents total income groups, occupation - National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016 and work activity during the reference year for the population aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories and census metropolitan areas.

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This table presents visible minority, income sources and taxes, income statistics, generation status, age and sex for the population aged 15 Years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents income statistics, major field of study - Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) 2016, highest certificate, diploma or degree, work activity during the reference year, age and sex for the population aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents income statistics, highest certificate, diploma or degree, work activity during the reference year, age and sex for the population aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions.

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This table presents first official language spoken, employment income statistics, occupation - National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016, work activity during the reference year, age and sex for the population aged 15 years and over who worked in 2015, in private households of Canada, provinces and territories and census metropolitan areas.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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This publication brings together and analyzes a wide range of data sources in order to provide information on various aspects of Canadian society, including labour, income, education, social, and demographic issues, that affect the lives of Canadians.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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The infographic looks at income in Canada, including the percentage of persons in low income, government transfers and the median after-tax income by family type.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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This study investigates the extent to which income tax reassessments and delayed tax filing affect the reliability of Canadian administrative tax datasets used for economic analysis. The study is based on individual income tax records from the T1 Personal Master File and Historical Personal Master File for selected years from 1990 to 2010. These datasets contain tax records for approximately 100% of initial and all income tax filers, who submitted returns to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) before specific processing cut-off dates.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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This article in the Economic Insights series highlights new data on the ownership of residential properties in Toronto and Vancouver by non-residents of Canada. It reports on the prevalence of non-resident ownership for different types of housing, including single-detached houses, semi-detached houses, row houses and condominium-apartments, and compares the property values of non-resident and resident-owned assets. Information on the location, age and size of condominium-apartments is used to assess differences in the value of non-resident owned properties.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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This infographic highlights some of the information provided by the 2016 Survey of Household Spending. For example, it presents the annual average spending on public transportation across Canada, shelter costs for owners and renters, as well as the proportion of Canadian households’ food budget spent on restaurant meals. It also shows how Canadian households allocated their budgets to various goods and services.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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Despite a large literature estimating the effects of income taxation on the labour decisions of young and middle-aged workers, little is known about the extent to which older workers respond to changes in their income taxes. This paper explores this unresolved empirical issue, using longitudinal administrative data on more than one million individuals from Canada and exploiting a recent tax reform in the empirical identification strategy that explicitly targeted older couples. The findings offer new insight into the “black box” of intra-household labour supply and inform the optimal designs of income tax and retirement income systems.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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Rates of low income among immigrants continue to be high relative to the Canadian-born population. This paper examines the rate of chronic low income among immigrants aged 25 or older in Canada during the 2000s. Chronic low income is defined as having a family income under a low income cut-off for five consecutive years or more. A regionally adjusted low-income measure is used for the analysis.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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Based on the data from the 2016 Census, the following infographic looks at income in Canada, including median household income, people living in low-income households, incomes of couples and use of tax assisted savings accounts.

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This series provides detailed documentation on income developments, including survey design issues, data quality evaluation and exploratory research.

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This study looks at changes introduced in 2018 to the methodology used for the census family low income measure, based on the T1 Family File (T1FF; tax filer data). By making these changes, the methodology becomes better aligned with other data sources at Statistics Canada, such as the Census of Population and the Canadian Income Survey. To account for changes in the methodology, new T1FF standard tables on the census family low income measure (after-tax income), going back to 2004 data, are introduced.

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This study looks at the differences in after-tax low income measure (LIM) statistics from two data sources which both use administrative tax data as their principal inputs: the 2016 Census of Population and the T1 Family file (T1FF). It presents a summary of the two data sources and compares after-tax LIM statistics by focussing on unit of analysis, LIM thresholds and the percentage of population below the LIM. The study also explores what factors users may want to consider when choosing one data source over the other.

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This product is the dictionary for the Longitudinal Administrative Databank (LAD). The dictionary contains a complete description for each of the income and demographic variables in the LAD, including name, acronym, definition, source, historical availability and historical continuity.

The following is a partial list of LAD variables: age, sex, marital status, family type, number and age of children, total income, wages and salaries, self-employment, Employment Insurance, Old Age Security, Canada and Quebec Pension Plans, social assistance, investment income, rental income, alimony, registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) income and contributions, low-income status, full-time education deduction, provincial refundable tax credits, goods and service tax (GST) credits, Canada Child Tax Benefits, selected immigration variables, and Tax Free Savings (TFSA) information.

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Data on investment income, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) contributions and charitable donations are derived from income tax returns.The data for the products associated with this release are derived from an early version of the T1 file that Statistics Canada receives from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

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This series provides detailed documentation on the issues, concepts, methodology, data quality and other relevant research related to household expenditures from the Survey of Household Spending, the Homeowner Repair and Renovation Survey and the Food Expenditure Survey.

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This guide presents information of interest to users of data from the Survey of Household Spending (SHS). It includes descriptions of the survey terms and variables definitions as well as of the survey methodology and data quality. The guide also includes a section describing various examples of estimates that can be drawn from the survey data.

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This Census in Brief article compares the earnings of Canadians by their highest level of educational attainment, i.e., a high school diploma, an apprenticeship certificate, a college diploma or a bachelor’s degree. It also examines how these earnings vary across the provinces and territories and highlights how the earnings of Canadians with selected educational qualifications changed over the decade preceding the 2016 Census.

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This Census in Brief article compares the earnings of young bachelor’s degree holders from different fields of study, including STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, and BHASE (non-STEM) fields, such as business, humanities, health, arts, social science and education.

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This reference guide provides information that enables users to effectively use, apply and interpret data from the 2016 Census. This guide contains definitions and explanations of concepts, classifications, data quality and comparability to other sources. Additional information is included for specific variables to help general users better understand the concepts and questions used in the Census.

Updated on November 29, 2017 to include information on long-form income estimates.

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This interactive chart shows percentiles of total income by various categories. A reference line can be added to the chart by entering a dollar amount. Data views are available for age, provinces or territories, census years (1985 to 2015) or metropolitan areas.

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This Census in Brief examines children younger than 18 living in low-income households in 2015. It sheds light on the incidence of low income for Canadian children of different ages, across different family circumstances and household living arrangements. It also provides information on child low income at different levels of geography, including provinces, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This Census in Brief examines household contributions to registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs), registered pension plans (RPPs), and tax-free savings accounts (TFSAs) in 2015. Contribution patterns are analyzed by age, income, and region to provide some insight into the savings behaviour of Canadian households.

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These tables provide 2016 Census highlights on language. Percentage distribution and percentage change from the previous census are available for various tables and levels of geography for example Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations and census subdivisions with a 5,000-plus population.

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The Income Release and concepts overview provides an overview of the concepts, definitions and key measures used in the 2016 Census of Population Income release, as well as the products which will be available on release day and later.