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Child Poverty Rates by Province, Canada, 1980-1989

	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
	Incidence (%)
Atlantic Provinces	21.1	21.1	24.3	26.2	24.8	22.5	20.5	20.6	17.6	17.7
Newfoundland	28.9	21.6	25.7	31.2	28.8	28.6	25.7	25.4	21.0	19.8
PEI	14.3	22.7	20.1	16.1	17.7	14.8	14.1	15.1	13.2	12.7
Nova Scotia	15.9	18.0	22.1	22.8	20.6	19.9	18.4	17.6	14.9	16.5
New Brunswick	20.3	23.9	26.2	27.3	27.0	21.2	19.2	20.7	18.5	18.0
Quebec	19.3	20.0	21.0	21.2	24.1	21.2	19.8	20.9	19.0	16.3
Ontario	14.4	13.6	17.5	17.4	16.6	15.9	13.1	12.7	12.0	11.6
Prairie Provinces	13.5	15.5	17.1	21.1	23.1	21.0	20.2	20.9	19.7	20.5
Manitoba	18.5	19.6	24.5	23.8	21.2	22.8	24.2	23.2	22.1	22.7
Saskatchewan	11.4	19.7	18.2	22.6	23.8	21.2	24.9	19.9	21.9	22.0
Alberta	12.3	11.9	13.7	19.3	23.5	20.2	16.6	20.4	17.8	19.1
British Columbia	10.6	14.3	18.4	16.7	21.1	21.7	20.5	18.7	15.4	14.7
CANADA	15.8	16.4	19.1	19.8	21.0	19.5	17.6	17.7	16.1	15.3
Notes: Children under 18 years of age. Based on Statistics Canada's Low-income Cut-offs, 1992 base.
Source: Prepared by the Canadian Council on Social Development, using data from Statistics Canada, Cat. 13-569-XPB.

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Example: 21.1% of all children under the age of 18 in the Atlantic provinces were poor in 1980. The Atlantic child poverty rate had decreased to 17.7% by 1989. A higher percentage of children in Nova Scotia, however, were poor in 1989 than in 1980.

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