Some stuff I am working on...


Distribution of Total Number of Canadians Living in Poverty
      While poverty rates and persistent poverty rates for single and lone
parent males and females are very high, an important question concerns how
much these groups contribute to the total number of Canadians living in
poverty.  Female lone parents for example, have very high rates of poverty
and persistent poverty, but what proportion do they constitute of the total
number of persistent poor.  Among the never poor, most of these Canadians
are male and females either attached with children or attached without
children(20.4% comes from males attached with children, 21.4% from males
attached without children, 19.9% from females attached with children and
16.4% from females attached with no children)
      Among the total number of always poor, lone parent males contribute
less than 1% and female lone parents contribute only 15.9%.  These numbers
are lower than the poverty rates seen among these groups but because they
constitute a relatively small proportion of the overall Canadian
population, their contribution to the overall number of poor Canadians are
lower. Indeed, among the always poor, 19.2% come from attached males with
or without children, and17.1% from females attached with or without
children. The author points out:

"While therefore, their high rates of chronic poverty might be good cause
to direct policy measures at single mothers, even delivering this group
from long-term poverty in its entirety would reduce the size of the overall
always-poor population by only 16 percent, meaning that other groups would
have to be helped in significant measure to diminish the number of long-run
poor in any given year - by any truly substantial amount (p. 39.)"


Based on:
Low Income (Poverty) Dynamics in Canada: Entry, Exit, Spell Durations, and
Total Time - June 2000
Applied Research Branch, Strategic Policy, Human Resources Development
Canada
SP-315-02-01E, W-00-7E, by Ross Finnie, June 2000
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/cs/sp/sdc/pkrf/publications/research/2000-000167/page01.shtml

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