Table 16
Payors of child and spousal support, by metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, Yukon and the Northwest Territories, 2009/2010

Table 16
Payors of child and support payment, by metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, Yukon and Northwest Territories, 2009/2010
Metropolitan/non-metropolitan areas Median total income for males aged 35 to 541 Cases enrolled, March 31 Median regular payment due, one child cases, in March2 Cases with full payment collected in March3 Cases with no arrears or arrears less than 2 times monthly amount due, March 314 Cases administered during fiscal year5 Collection rate6 Median annual amount collected7
dollar number dollar percent number percent dollar
Yukon 45,000 350 300 66 58 440 102 3,375
Whitehorse census agglomeration8 49,000 230 314 70 65 295 101 3,720
Yukon census division9
(non-metropolitan parts)		 36,280 120 265 59 46 145 104 2,754
Northwest Territories 60,000 595 393 52 33 680 85 3,992
Yellowknife census agglomeration8 73,637 180 373 61 40 215 89 3,996
Fort Smith census division9
(non-metropolitan parts)		 50,000 250 377 50 32 285 87 4,245
Inuvik census division 44,000 165 418 46 25 180 79 3,600
1. Median income figures are from the 2006 Census of Population, and refer to 2005 calendar year.
2. Includes cases whose only beneficiary is one child and excludes cases with no monthly payments due.
3. Percentage based on cases with a regular payment due in March.
4. Percentage based on cases with a regular payment due in March. A case can have arrears from a missed payment either in March or in a earlier month. Many cases also enrol with existing arrears accumulated before enrolment in the MEP.
5. Cases administered include all cases enrolled for all, or part of, 2009/2010. Location of payors based on the last community or region where the payor was known to reside.
6. Collection rate is the total amount received during the fiscal year (April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010) divided by the total amount due. Some arrears payments received in the fiscal year pay down arrears that accrued before the fiscal year. Occasionally, these payments can be substantial, and because there is no corresponding payment due transaction, may result in a collection rate that is greater than 100 percent.
7. Includes only cases with a regular amount due every month in 2009/2010, with or without payment received in the fiscal year. In most jurisdictions, this is roughly 60% of cases administered.
8. An area consisting of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A census metropolitan area must have a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core. A census agglomeration must have an urban core population of at least 10,000.
9. A census division (CD) is a group of neighbouring municipalities joined together for the purposes of regional planning and managing common services (such as police or ambulance services). These groupings are established under laws in effect in certain provinces of Canada. For example, a census division might correspond to a county, les municipalités régionales de comté or a regional district. In other provinces and the territories where laws do not provide for such areas, Statistics Canada defines equivalent areas for statistical reporting purposes in cooperation with these provinces and territories.
Note: Excludes Non-ISO and ISO-out cases where the location of the recipient is unknown or the recipient resides outside of the province/territory.
ISO: Interjurisdictional Support Orders.
Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Maintenance Enforcement Programs, 2009/2010.
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