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Child Poverty*, Canada and the Provinces, 1995
| Child Poverty*, Canada and the Provinces, 1995 |
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| | Incidence (%) | Number (000) |
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| Canada | 21.0 | 1472 |
| Atlantic Provinces | 23.1 | 131 |
| Newfoundland | 26.2 | 36 |
| Prince Edward Island | 14.2 | 5 |
| Nova Scotia | 21.5 | 47 |
| New Brunswick | 24.4 | 43 |
| Quebec | 22.6 | 378 |
| Ontario | 19.1 | 506 |
| Prairie Provinces | 22.1 | 277 |
| Manitoba | 23.2 | 63 |
| Saskatchewan | 21.8 | 58 |
| Alberta | 21.7 | 156 |
| British Columbia | 20.8 | 181 |
Source: Prepared by the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD), using Statistics Canada's Low Income Persons, 1980 to 1995 (Low Income Cut-offs, 1992 base), Catalogue 13-569-XPB, Survey of Consumer Finances
Note: Poverty is measured using Statistics Canada's Low-income Cut-offs (LICO), 1992 base.
*children under the age of 18.
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Example: 1,472,000 Canadian children lived in poverty in 1995, a poverty rate of 21%. The child poverty rate was highest in Newfoundland, where 26.2% of all children were poor. More than half a million poor children (506,000) lived in Ontario.
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