Chart 2b
Proportion of annual income of women and men aged 16 and over by source, Canada, 1976 to 2015
Data table for Chart 2b
| 1976 | 1985 | 1995 | 2005 | 2015 | ||||||
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| Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | |
| percent | ||||||||||
| Employment earnings | 76.9 | 87.8 | 71.4 | 82.2 | 68.7 | 77.9 | 70.0 | 79.8 | 66.9 | 76.2 |
| Non-earnings market income | 9.4 | 6.0 | 12.7 | 9.0 | 12.0 | 10.8 | 13.3 | 12.2 | 15.6 | 14.4 |
| Government transfers | 13.8 | 6.2 | 16.0 | 8.8 | 19.3 | 11.3 | 16.7 | 8.1 | 17.6 | 9.4 |
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Note: Estimates exclude territories and First Nations reserves. Estimates are based on data from the following surveys: the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) from 1976 to 1992, a combination of the SCF and the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) from 1993 to 1997, the SLID from 1998 to 2011 and the Canadian Income Survey (CIS) beginning in 2012. For more information, see Statistics Canada, 2015, "Revisions to 2006 to 2011 income data", Income Research Paper Series, Catalogue no. 75F0002MIE - No. 003. Also, two previous revisions of income data are described in Cotton, Cathy, 2000, "Bridging Two Surveys: An Integrated Series of Income Data from SCF and SLID 1989-1997", Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 75F0002MIE - No. 002, and Lathe, Heather, 2005, "Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics: 2003 Historical Revision", Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 75F0002MIE - No. 009. Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Income Survey, Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, Survey of Consumer Finances, 1976-2015, custom tabulation. |
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