Chronic low income among immigrants in Canada and its communities / by Garnett Picot and Yuqian Lu.: CS11-0019/397E-PDF
"This paper examines the rate of chronic low income among immigrants aged 25 or older in Canada during the 2000s. Chronic low income is defined as having a family income under a low-income cut-off for five consecutive years or more. A regionally adjusted low-income measure is used for the analysis. Among immigrants who were in low income in any given year, about one-half were in chronic low income. The highest chronic rates were observed among immigrant seniors, as well as immigrants who were unattached or lone parents. There were large differences in the chronic low-income rate by immigrant place of birth, even after adjusting for differences in other immigrant background characteristics. The chronic low-income rate was lower among economic class immigrants than among family or refugee classes, but the difference was reduced after adjusting for background characteristics. Chronic low-income rates among immigrants varied significantly across the 29 cities/regions in the study, varying by a factor of 5 between the highest and lowest rates. However, the community ranking was not static and changed significantly between the beginning and end of the 2000s"--Abstract.
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| Department/Agency | Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch. |
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| Title | Chronic low income among immigrants in Canada and its communities / by Garnett Picot and Yuqian Lu. |
| Series title | Analytical Studies Branch research paper series, 1205-9153 ; no. 397 |
| Publication type | Series - View Master Record |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
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| Note(s) | Issued also in French under title: Faible revenu chronique chez les immigrants au Canada et dans ses collectivités. "Release date: September 29, 2017." Includes bibliographic references. |
| Publishing information | [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada, c2017. |
| Author / Contributor | Lu, Yuqian. |
| Description | 43 p. |
| ISBN | 978-0-660-09938-5 |
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| Departmental catalogue number | 11F0019M No. 397 |
| Subject terms | Immigrants Low income |
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