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Last updated: 2002
Child Poverty Rates by Province, Canada, 1990-1996
| | Incidence (%) |
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| | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 |
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| Atlantic Provinces | 18.3 | 19.9 | 19.9 | 20.6 | 20.1 | 23.1 | 21.2 |
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| Newfoundland | 20.8 | 20.6 | 26.8 | 21.8 | 23.4 | 26.2 | 20.2 |
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| PEI | 14.0 | 15.6 | 12.7 | 11.4 | 13.3 | 14.2 | 18.5 |
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| Nova Scotia | 16.8 | 20.6 | 19.4 | 23.4 | 20.5 | 21.5 | 23.5 |
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| New Brunswick | 18.6 | 19.2 | 15.9 | 18.0 | 18.3 | 24.4 | 19.8 |
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| Quebec | 19.5 | 20.4 | 19.3 | 21.4 | 19.8 | 22.6 | 22.0 |
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| Ontario | 14.8 | 17.3 | 16.3 | 20.8 | 18.1 | 19.1 | 20.3 |
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| Prairie Provinces | 21.1 | 22.4 | 24.3 | 22.7 | 20.4 | 22.1 | 22.3 |
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| Manitoba | 24.0 | 30.9 | 24.2 | 26.1 | 22.8 | 23.2 | 26.6 |
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| Saskatchewan | 21.8 | 22.4 | 24.0 | 24.8 | 22.9 | 21.8 | 22.3 |
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| Alberta | 19.8 | 19.2 | 24.5 | 20.6 | 18.5 | 21.7 | 20.7 |
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| British Columbia | 17.6 | 14.4 | 19.3 | 21.5 | 21.2 | 20.8 | 20.2 |
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| CANADA | 17.8 | 18.9 | 19.2 | 21.3 | 19.5 | 21.0 | 21.1 |
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| 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: 18.3% of all children under the age of 18 in the Atlantic provinces were poor in 1990. The Atlantic child poverty rate increased to 21.2% by 1996. The only Atlantic province to experience an overall decrease in its child poverty rate over this time was Newfoundland, dropping from 20.8% in 1990 to 20.2% in 1996. However, throughout most of the years between 1990 and 1996, Newfoundland's child poverty rate was higher than it was in either 1990 or 1996.
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