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Child Poverty*, Canada and the Provinces, 1996
| Child Poverty*, Canada and the Provinces, 1996 |
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| | Incidence (%) | Number (000) |
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| Canada | 21.1 | 1498 |
| Newfoundland | 20.2 | 27 |
| Prince Edward Island | 18.5 | 6 |
| Nova Scotia | 23.5 | 51 |
| New Brunswick | 19.8 | 35 |
| Quebec | 22.0 | 369 |
| Ontario | 20.3 | 548 |
| Manitoba | 26.6 | 72 |
| Saskatchewan | 22.3 | 59 |
| Alberta | 20.7 | 151 |
| British Columbia | 20.2 | 180 |
Source: Prepared by the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD), using Statistics Canada's Low Income Persons, 1980 to 1996, Catalogue 13-569-XPB, Survey of Consumer Finances
Note: Poor children are those under the age of 18 living in familes whose total income before taxes falls below the Statistics Canada Low-income Cut-off (1992 base).
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Example: 1,498,000 Canadian children lived in poverty in 1996, a poverty rate of 21.1%. The child poverty rate was highest in Manitoba, where 26.6% of all children were poor. More than half a million poor children (548,000) lived in Ontario.
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