Download or read book Measuring Low Income and Poverty in Canada electronic Resource an Update written by Webber, Maryanne and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1970s, Statistics Canada has produced low income rates, based on a measure called the Low Income Cutoff (LICO). In the late 1980s, a second measure, called the Low Income Measure (LIM), began gaining in popularity for certain types of analyses. Both are by design relative measures. Statistics Canada has maintained that neither measure is intended as a poverty line but, in the absence of other measures, they are at times interpreted as such. There is currently an initiative underway in Canada, sponsored by the provincial and territorial Ministers of Social Services and the federal Human Resources Development Canada to devise a needs-based measure of poverty called the Market Basket Measure (MBM). The note outlines the existing measures and summarizes the recent developments.

Download or read book Not Enough written by Canadian Council for Social Development and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of this study's publication in 1984, 26 per cent--2.3 million--Canadian households lived below the poverty line; over 100,000 families subsisted on less than $5000 a year; social assistance rates provided about half of what a family required to survive. Not Enough: The Meaning and Measurement of Poverty in Canada, the report of a national task force on poverty, asserts that "serious deprivation does exist in Canada." Not Enough provides a range of detailed information, charts and graphs dealing with the extent, depth and length of poverty in Canada in the 1980s. The report is especially attentive to the regional distribution of poverty, to its increasing "feminization", and to the difficulties disabled people face maintaining their dignity in the face of chronically restricted budgets. Not Enough is a detailed snapshot of the recent past of a crippling social problem that remains with us today.

Download or read book Measuring Low Income and Poverty in Canada written by Maryanne Webber and published by Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, Statistics Canada. This book was released on 1998 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A New Poverty Line written by National Council of Welfare (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This discussion paper is designed to inform readers about some of the different ways that poverty could be measured in Canada and to provide an opportunity to present their views to government using a questionnaire at the end of the paper. Part I presents some basic facts about poverty lines: that they are relative, arbitrary, and suited for measuring incomes of groups but not of individuals, and that some are better than others but none are perfect. The rationale for having poverty lines, the Statistics Canada low income cut-offs used as a measure of poverty, and the search for alternative measures are also discussed. Part 2 reviews spending patterns in Canada as determined from the Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey and also mentions alternative sources of data that could be used to determine components of a poverty measure. Part 3 details some examples of market baskets of goods and services and how they are put together. Part 4 assesses how changes in poverty lines would affect the perception of poverty. The final chapter considers other issues related to poverty lines, including how many lines are needed, adjustments for family size and type, adjustments to after-tax income, updating market basket type measures, and involvement of interested parties in the determination of poverty lines.

Download or read book Poverty in Canada written by Christopher A. Sarlo and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Measurement of Poverty written by Canada. Department of National Health and Welfare. Social Security Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social research into the methodology of measuring poverty in Canada and the USA - covers (1) the historical development of concepts of poverty and (2) examines the family budgets of low income families in toronto and montreal in respect of food (nutrition), housing, clothing, transportation and fuel in order to determine a minimum standard of living for such families. References.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty written by David Brady and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty builds a common scholarly ground in the study of poverty by bringing together an international, inter-disciplinary group of scholars to provide their perspectives on the issue. Contributors engage in discussions about the leading theories and conceptual debates regarding poverty, the most salient topics in poverty research, and the far-reaching consequences of poverty on the individual and societal level.

Download or read book Understanding the 2000 Low Income Statistics Based on the Market Basket Measure written by Canada. Human Resources Development Canada. Applied Research Branch and published by Hull, Québec : Applied Research Branch, Human Resources Development Canada. This book was released on 2003 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Drawing the Line written by Patricia Ruggles and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US official poverty measures were adopted in the late 1960s and, even then, were based on data from the mid-1950s. This book argues for a reevaluation of the experts' consensus on where we draw the poverty line.

Download or read book Exploration of Methodological Issues in the Development of the Market Basket Measure of Low Income for Human Resources Development Canada written by Sylvie Michaud and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poverty and Child Well being in Canada and the United States written by Shelley Ann Phipps and published by [Gatineau, Quebec] : Applied Research Branch, Human Resources Development Canada. This book was released on 2000 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the possibility that conclusions about the association between poverty and children's well-being may be sensitive to choices made about how to measure poverty. In particular, it focusses on the influence of data set chosen, sample selected and poverty line used. Throughout, the analysis is conducted for children in both Canada and the United States, both to emphasize that these issues are not unique to the Canadian situation and to point out the influence of measurement choices upon our understanding of Canada/US comparisons. The principal data sets used are the Survey of Consumer Finance and the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth for Canada and the Current Population Survey and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for the United States.

Download or read book Low Income in Canada 2000 2007 Using the Market Basket Measure written by Canada. Department of Human Resources and Skills Development and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Introduction to the State of Poverty in Canada written by Charles Lammam and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Definition and Measurement of Asset Poverty in Canada written by David Rothwell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Canada, poverty policy and discourse focuses on annual estimates of low income. Assuming that assets, independent from income, represent an alternative view of well-being we introduce an asset-based measurement of poverty for Canada based on (1) financial assets and (2) net worth. A household is "asset poor" if it does not own sufficient assets to survive at the low-income cutoff for three months. Data from the 1999 and 2005 cycles of the Survey of Financial Security suggest asset poverty rates were approximately two to four times higher than the corresponding low-income rates. We show for the first time that, proportionately, households with female lone parents, renters and younger persons were overrepresented among the asset poor. We demonstrate that 14% of Canadians were joint low income and financial asset poor in 2005. The relatively high asset poverty rates suggests a need for anti-poverty policies to better promote financial security.

Download or read book Measuring Poverty written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poverty in Canada written by Raghubar Sharma and published by OUP Canada. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty in Canada is on the rise, particularly among certain groups. While in developing countries poverty may affect much of the population, in a more developed country such as Canada it is largely restricted to specific groups. Such groups are often excluded from full participation in our social and economic institutions. There are many factors behind this lack of wealth and opportunity; addressing the phenomenon of poverty can be a complicated matter. Government demographer and lecturer Raghubar D. Sharma provides the first concise discussion of the specific groups that are affected by poverty, including the elderly, ethnic poverty, child poverty, and the "working poor." Chapters focus on these groups and explore the circumstances behind their exclusion. Sharma also looks into a larger trend behind the rise of poverty: a massive economic transformation akin to the Industrial Revolution of the early 1700s has been underway since the 1980s. This phenomenon of "globalization" is elim

Download or read book The Incidence of Family Poverty on Canadian Indian Reserves written by Peter R. Oberle and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper develops some basic statistics to reflect the incidence of poverty among Indian families living in reserve communities in Canada, using Statistics Canada's Low Income Cutoffs (LICOs) as a basci measure.