Prosperity
Opportunities provided by a productive and innovative economy lay the foundation for Canadians' material standard of living.
Affordability of basic goods and services, such as food, housing and utilities, is essential for quality of life, as is confidence in one's financial security in the face of unforeseen events and in retirement. Publicly funded services reduce the cost of living and the risks shouldered by families. The ability to apply education and skills to meaningful work matters not only for the higher standard of living it affords, but also for creating a sense of purpose and pride.
The prosperity domain includes four subdomains and 26 indicators.
Note: Indicators marked with a star icon are headline indicators. Headline indicators are intended to provide a high-level assessment of overall quality of life in Canada.
Income and growth
- Household income headline indicator
- Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita
- Productivity
- Access to high-speed Internet
- Household wealth
- Investment in in-house research and development
- General government net financial liabilities-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio
- Firm dynamism
Employment and job quality
- Employment headline indicator
- Labour underutilization
- Wages
- Job security and gig work
- Job satisfaction
Skills and opportunity
- Youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) headline indicator
- Early learning and child care
- Child skills
- Adolescent skills
- Adult skills
- Postsecondary attainment
Economic security and deprivation
- Core housing need headline indicator
- Acceptable housing headline indicator
- Poverty headline indicator
- Protection from income shocks
- Making ends meet headline indicator
- Homelessness
- Food insecurity
Data snapshots
Making ends meet
% reported it was easy or very easy for their household to meet its financial needs in .
Source: Canadian Social Survey (CSS).
Household income
median after-tax income for economic families and persons not in an economic family in .
Source: Table 11-10-0190-01.
Youth not in employment, education, or training (NEET)
% of youth aged 15 to 29 not in employment, education, or training in .
Source: Table 37-10-0196-01.
Acceptable housing
% of the population lived in acceptable housing in .
Source: Canadian Housing Survey (CHS).
Core housing need
% of the population lived in core housing need in .
Source: Table 46-10-0068-01.
Poverty
% of the population lived below the poverty line in .
Source: Table 11-10-0135-01.
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