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Child Poverty*, Canada and the Provinces, 1993
| Child Poverty, Canada and the Provinces, 1993 |
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| | Incidence (%) | Number (000) |
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| Canada | 21.3 | 1484 |
| Atlantic Provinces | 20.6 | 121 |
| Newfoundland | 21.8 | 32 |
| Prince Edward Island | 11.4 | 4 |
| Nova Scotia | 23.4 | 52 |
| New Brunswick | 18.0 | 33 |
| Quebec | 21.4 | 360 |
| Ontario | 20.8 | 539 |
| Prairie Provinces | 22.7 | 285 |
| Manitoba | 26.1 | 71 |
| Saskatchewan | 24.8 | 65 |
| Alberta | 20.6 | 149 |
| British Columbia | 21.5 | 179 |
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.
Reading this table
Example: 1,484,000 Canadian children lived in poverty in 1993, a poverty rate of 21.3%. The child poverty rate was highest in Manitoba, where 26.1% of all children were poor. More than half a million poor children (539,000) lived in Ontario.
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