Deep income poverty : exploring dimensions of poverty in Canada / by Marc-Antoine Dionne and Lucie Raymond-Brousseau.: CS75-0002/2025-1E-PDF

"In Canada, the poverty line is defined by the Government of Canada in the Poverty Reduction Act as the Market Basket Measure (MBM). … While the MBM is Canada's headline poverty measure, poverty is a multifaceted matter. Therefore, the Poverty Reduction Act also requires Statistics Canada to create a dashboard of indicators for a more holistic evaluation of poverty reduction. Canada's Official Poverty Dashboard consists of 12 indicators in addition to the headline MBM poverty rate. These indicators track progress on various measures of low income and inequality, as well as aspects of poverty less tied to income, such as material deprivation, lack of opportunity and resilience. One of the low-income measures introduced in the poverty dashboard is deep income poverty (DIP). The DIP concept was introduced in "Opportunity for All - Canada's First Poverty Reduction Strategy" and refers to having an income below 75% of the poverty line. … This paper examines the population living in DIP from 2015 to 2022 by analyzing the demographic groups in DIP over time and how the DIP measure compares with other poverty dashboard indicators, such as unmet health and housing needs and food insecurity, to deepen the understanding of poverty. The results show that Canadians in DIP have socioeconomic profiles similar to those closer to the poverty line, with some small exceptions. The results also show that those in poverty are faced with more material concerns, like not having access to food, being unable to live in adequate housing or not having access to health care"--Introduction, page 3.

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