Add to ORKGA poverty line defines a level of income below which a person or household with that income is considered to be experiencing poverty. The Low-Income Cut-Off (LICO) is one of the oldest poverty lines in use in Canada, providing us with data back to 1976. This makes it useful for showing long-term trends. Statistics Canada uses a version of the LICO that measures poverty after accounting for income transfers to measure the percentage of Canadians experiencing poverty. I will call this the poverty rate
In this paper, a new approach to defining the poverty line is proposed in which family heads are ask...
Using the example of B.C., this article shows how combined federal and provincial policies prevent e...
When measuring poverty over time analysts must choose the value of the income elasticity of the pove...
A poverty line defines a level of income below which a person or household with that income is consi...
On August 21st, the federal government announced that for the first time Canada would adopt an offic...
he federal government produces a number of measures that are regularly interpreted as reflecting low...
The government of Canada has adopted the Market Basket Measure (MBM) as the preferred poverty line i...
This paper uses an exercise similar to comparative statics to show that the growth rate of the Index...
How we talk about poverty and low income is complicated by the competing methods for defining and me...
In 1976 and 2020, Alberta and Ontario had similar rates of poverty. In between those years, poverty ...
Measures of material deprivation show that the experience of poverty may coincide with an income tha...
In 2017, the prevalence of poverty fell in all provinces relative to 2007, however the measured dept...
This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Reg...
The poor are those whose expenditure (or income) falls below a poverty line. This chapter explains h...
E. Chambers In this article, the author outlines the history and rationale for an official poverty l...
In this paper, a new approach to defining the poverty line is proposed in which family heads are ask...
Using the example of B.C., this article shows how combined federal and provincial policies prevent e...
When measuring poverty over time analysts must choose the value of the income elasticity of the pove...
A poverty line defines a level of income below which a person or household with that income is consi...
On August 21st, the federal government announced that for the first time Canada would adopt an offic...
he federal government produces a number of measures that are regularly interpreted as reflecting low...
The government of Canada has adopted the Market Basket Measure (MBM) as the preferred poverty line i...
This paper uses an exercise similar to comparative statics to show that the growth rate of the Index...
How we talk about poverty and low income is complicated by the competing methods for defining and me...
In 1976 and 2020, Alberta and Ontario had similar rates of poverty. In between those years, poverty ...
Measures of material deprivation show that the experience of poverty may coincide with an income tha...
In 2017, the prevalence of poverty fell in all provinces relative to 2007, however the measured dept...
This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Reg...
The poor are those whose expenditure (or income) falls below a poverty line. This chapter explains h...
E. Chambers In this article, the author outlines the history and rationale for an official poverty l...
In this paper, a new approach to defining the poverty line is proposed in which family heads are ask...
Using the example of B.C., this article shows how combined federal and provincial policies prevent e...
When measuring poverty over time analysts must choose the value of the income elasticity of the pove...