SOCWORK 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 7 - Social inequality, Visible minority
21 Sep 2018
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How we understand/measure poverty: 3 tools developed by statistics canada and social development canada in partnership the un/organization economic co-operation and development. Low income cut-offs (licos: low income cut-offs (licos) were first published in 1967 as part of the 1961 census, based on the relationship between the incomes and the consumption patterns of. Low income measures (lims: based solely on the distribution of household income across the canadian population. Different measures produce different results: overall low income in canada 2014, low income cut-offs: 8. 8% - 3 million canadians, market basket measure: 11. 3% - 3. 9 million, low income measure: 13% - 4. 5 million canadians. Race and poverty: racialized communities face high levels of poverty. The 2006 census showed that the overall poverty rate in canada was 11%. I(cid:374) t(cid:449)o of ca(cid:374)ada"s largest (cid:272)ities, (cid:373)ore tha(cid:374) half of all perso(cid:374)s li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g i(cid:374) po(cid:448)erty (cid:449)ere from racialized groups: 58% in vancouver, 62% in toronto.
