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Last Updated: February 10, 1997
Poverty Rates for Selected Non-elderly Family Types, 1980-1995
| Year | 2-parent families (%) | single-mother families (%) | single-father families (%) |
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| 1980 | 9.7 | 57.3 | 25.4 |
| 1981 | 10.2 | 53.5 | 18.7 |
| 1982 | 11.9 | 59.3 | 26.1 |
| 1983 | 12.6 | 60.7 | 28.6 |
| 1984 | 13.1 | 62.3 | 27.0 |
| 1985 | 11.8 | 61.1 | 26.9 |
| 1986 | 10.9 | 57.7 | 23.4 |
| 1987 | 10.3 | 58.3 | 18.4 |
| 1988 | 9.1 | 55.3 | 24.6 |
| 1989 | 8.7 | 52.9 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 9.8 | 59.5 | 25.5 |
| 1991 | 10.8 | 60.3 | 22.6 |
| 1992 | 10.6 | 56.9 | 18.9 |
| 1993 | 12.2 | 59.0 | 30.9 |
| 1994 | 11.5 | 56.4 | 32.3 |
| 1995 | 12.8 | 56.8 | 30.7 |
These estimates are based on the 1992 Statistics Canada Low-income Cut-offs (LICOs), 1992 base.
Prepared by the Canadian Council on Social Development, using Statistics Canada, Income Distributions by Size in Canada, 1995, Catalogue #13-207-XPB.
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Example: The incidence of poverty among lone-parent families is much higher than among two-parent families. In 1980, 9.7% of two-parent families were living below the poverty lines. Approximately one-quarter of lone-parent families led by men were poor (25.4%), while more than half of their female-led counterparts lived in poverty (57.3%).
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