High values indicate that a large proportion of children reside in low-income families.
The proportion of persons age 17 and younger living in low-income economic families before tax in 2015, expressed as a percentage of the total population age 17 and younger.
Calculations are made according to Statistics Canada’s low-income cut-offs (LICOs). LICOs represent levels of income where people spend disproportionate amounts of money for food, shelter and clothing. They are based on family and community size and are updated to account for changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
The low-income before-tax cut-off defines income levels at which families or persons not in economic families spend 20 percentage points more than average of their before-tax income on food, shelter and clothing. For the 2016 Census, the reference period is calendar year 2015 for all income variables.
For the definition of economic family, please refer to Statistics Canada’s Dictionary, Census of Population, 2016.
Total population age 17 and younger
Population age 17 and younger living in low-income families
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The health regions presented in this table are based on boundaries and names in effect as of 2017. For complete Canadian coverage, each northern territory represents a health region.