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Low-income rates among recent immigrants and their weeks worked per year

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This is a line chart.
The left vertical axis is "Percentage".
The left vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 50 with ticks every 10 points.
The right vertical axis is "Weeks".
The right vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 45 with ticks every 5 points.
The horizontal axis is "Years".
The units of the horizontal axis are years ranging from 1976 to 2009.
There are 4 series in this graph.
The title of series 1 is "LICO".
The title of series 2 is "LIM".
The title of series 3 is "MBM".
The title of series 4 is "Weeks worked".

Figure 3.7
Low-income rates among recent immigrants and their weeks worked per year
  LICO LIM MBM Weeks worked
percent
1976 10.1 8.3   43.2
1977 10.4 8.5   43.2
1978 12.9 9.4   41.4
1979 10.4 7.7   44.1
1980 11.5 10.4   43.3
1981 12.6 9.5   41.6
1982 12.3 9.6   41.9
1983 17.1 12.5   35.8
1984 17.7 14.6   38.4
1985 16.2 11.6   37.9
1986 17.3 13.6   36.6
1987 19.4 15.6   36.6
1988 20.2 13.8   33.7
1989 14.2 11.7   38.6
1990 17.0 14.4   35.6
1991 25.9 19.0   32.8
1992 25.7 20.4   30.8
1993 33.1 23.6   25.0
1994 25.9 18.8   29.3
1995 27.6 19.7   30.1
1996 32.8 24.2   31.4
1997 33.0 25.0   29.0
1998 26.5 23.3   32.3
1999 26.9 21.7   32.2
2000 27.6 23.2 22.7 35.9
2001 23.6 22.9 22.8 37.3
2002 27.5 27.5 26.3 34.8
2003 24.5 24.2 21.3 34.1
2004 21.4 22.5 18.3 36.4
2005 15.8 17.0 14.8 38.4
2006 17.3 18.4 13.2 37.2
2007 16.9 18.7 11.8 41.6
2008 18.3 22.2 16.0 35.4
2009 18.4 22.0 17.4 33.8
Note: Low income rates are calculated using three low income thresholds: the Low-Income Cut-Off (LICO), the Low Income Measure (LIM) and the Market Basket Measure (MBM).
Source: Survey of Consumer Finances (1976 to 1995) and Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (1996 to 2009)
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