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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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Tables and figures
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Tables
Table 1 Fixed after-tax LIM thresholds based on 1992 income distribution
Table 2 Some characteristics of alternative low income lines
Table 3 Test statistics for changes in low income intensity
Table 4 Percentages captured and not captured by low income lines (2000 to 2007)
Table 5 Decomposition of low income incidence under alternative lines
Figures
Figure 1 Trend in low income incidence under alternative lines
Figure 2 Confidence interval (95%) estiamtes: low income rates (1976 to 2007)
Figure 3 Trend in low income gap ratio (P1) under different lines
Figure 4 Trend in low income severity (P2) under different lines
Figure 5 Trend in low income intensity under different lines
Figure 6 Trend in Sen's gap ratio under alternative low income lines
Figure 7 Comparing different indexes under the same line (after-tax LICO)
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