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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) (8,641)
1
(10,900)
(14,817)
1
(5,000) (20,000)
1
(5,000) (20,000)
1
(5,000) (20,000)
1
(5,000) (13,334)
1
(5,000) (20,000)
1
(5,000) (20,000)
1
(5,000) (20,000)
2
Man.
14.8
1
(13,167) (14,629)
2
(13,812) (20,000)
2
(13,711) (20,000)
1
(7,454) (20,000)
1
(5,301) (12,535)
1
(6,691) (20,000)
1
(6,298) (20,000)
1
(7,545) (20,000)
3
Que.
13.4
1
(14,380) (20,000)
1
(14,390) (20,000)
1
(8,196) (20,000)
1
(5,000) (10,332)
1
(7,976) (20,000)
1
(7,480) (20,000)
1
(8,229) (20,000)
4
Sask.
10.9
Z
1
(17,651) (20,000)
2
(5,000) (12,997)
1
(5,852) (9,845)
1
(5,053) (11,585)
1
(5,097) (16,227)
4
Alta.
11.1
1
(7,094) (11,559)
2
(5,328) (13,233)
1
(5,000) (10,421)
1
(5,000) (12,378)
1
(5,000) (17,123)
6
Ont.
10.8
3
(5,000) (14,684)
Z
1
(14,606) (15,904)
1
(11,557) (16,264)
7
N.L.
13.2
Z
1
(10,825) (20,000)
1
(10,697) (20,000)
7
N.S.
11.6
1
(14,130) (18,151)
1
(14,875) (20,000)
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.
