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Average Incomes by Family Type, Before and After Taxes and Transfers, 1996
| | Average income before transfers | + Average Transfer Payments | - Average Income Tax | = Average Income After Tax |
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| Family Type | $ |
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| Elderly couple | 21,558 | 18,032 | 5,932 | 33,656 |
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| Non-elderly couple | 53,371 | 3,303 | 12,583 | 44,091 |
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| Two-parent family | 59,565 | 4,416 | 13,902 | 50,079 |
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| One earner | 39,202 | 6,120 | 9,025 | 36,297 |
| Two earners | 62,635 | 3,606 | 14,841 | 51,400 |
| Female lone-parent family | 16,437 | 7,607 | 2,685 | 21,359 |
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| Total, families | 49,988 | 6,641 | 11,597 | 45,032 |
| Elderly unattached | 8,662 | 11,361 | 2,370 | 17,653 |
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| Non-elderly unattached | 23,692 | 2,525 | 5,418 | 20,799 |
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| Total, unattached persons | 19,362 | 5,071 | 4,540 | 19,893 |
Source: Prepared by the Canadian Council on Social Development, using data from Statistics Canada, Cat. no. 11-001E, June 1998
Reading this table
Example: In 1996, the average income of a single-mother family before government transfers (such as social assistance payments, employment insurance, child tax benefits, etc.) was $16,437. On average, a single-mother family would have received an additional $7,607 in government transfers. The average income tax this family would have paid was $2,685. So, $16,437 plus $7,607 minus $2,685 equals an average after-tax-and-transfer income of $21,539 for single-mother families in Canada in 1996.
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