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Table 9-1
Gini coefficients of market income, total income and after-tax income by selected family types, Canada — Market income

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Market income
  1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Market income  
Economic families, two persons or more 0.452 0.439 0.444 0.445 0.445 0.441 0.445 0.439 0.437 0.437
Elderly families 0.579 0.563 0.558 0.543 0.550 0.550 0.550 0.562 0.549 0.557
Married couples 0.568 0.562 0.546 0.537 0.533 0.543 0.550 0.561 0.548 0.560
Other families 0.608 0.564 0.582 0.562 0.600 0.573 0.552 0.554 0.542 0.541
Non-elderly families 0.419 0.406 0.412 0.414 0.414 0.409 0.412 0.405 0.404 0.404
Married couples 0.429 0.406 0.398 0.422 0.414 0.395 0.388 0.391 0.388 0.396
No earners 0.609 0.604 0.592 0.615 0.600 0.609 0.622 0.627 0.590 0.566
One earner 0.430 0.416 0.419 0.449 0.413 0.415 0.416 0.399 0.382 0.420
Two earners 0.372 0.348 0.343 0.372 0.368 0.344 0.337 0.344 0.350 0.356
Two-parent families with children 0.362 0.361 0.371 0.373 0.371 0.371 0.385 0.365 0.371 0.369
No earners 0.899 0.859 0.892 0.870 0.824 0.813 0.830 0.854 0.784 0.838
One earner 0.484 0.465 0.481 0.488 0.485 0.495 0.494 0.441 0.472 0.463
Two earners 0.315 0.324 0.333 0.333 0.342 0.334 0.348 0.337 0.339 0.343
Three or more earners 0.272 0.272 0.290 0.301 0.283 0.312 0.337 0.288 0.307 0.309
Married couples with other relatives 0.332 0.314 0.361 0.347 0.350 0.342 0.340 0.354 0.357 0.342
Lone-parent families 0.563 0.545 0.517 0.518 0.527 0.535 0.506 0.532 0.509 0.511
Male 0.452 0.461 0.427 0.427 0.424 0.479 0.440 0.477 0.441 0.446
Female 0.569 0.546 0.520 0.528 0.537 0.528 0.506 0.529 0.507 0.515
No earners 0.911 0.894 0.830 0.838 0.796 0.793 0.741 0.799 0.818 0.819
One earner 0.455 0.424 0.415 0.422 0.442 0.450 0.442 0.498 0.463 0.474
Two or more earners 0.297 0.302 0.336 0.361 0.373 0.361 0.367 0.328 0.330 0.321
Other non-elderly families 0.456 0.416 0.419 0.403 0.416 0.404 0.409 0.386 0.377 0.375
Unattached individuals 0.590 0.596 0.580 0.572 0.564 0.572 0.565 0.569 0.568 0.563
Elderly males 0.699 0.680 0.676 0.673 0.634 0.668 0.623 0.647 0.641 0.658
Non-earner 0.696 0.682 0.694 0.694 0.641 0.669 0.641 0.648 0.656 0.674
Earner 0.587 0.607 0.550 0.526 0.541 0.597 0.535 0.546 0.522 0.541
Elderly females 0.674 0.682 0.682 0.666 0.672 0.658 0.660 0.674 0.679 0.640
Non-earner 0.671 0.689 0.690 0.670 0.684 0.678 0.679 0.694 0.695 0.660
Earner 0.611 0.490 0.499 0.530 0.510 0.471 0.460 0.469 0.517 0.449
Non-elderly males 0.526 0.516 0.499 0.499 0.490 0.512 0.505 0.523 0.520 0.511
Non-earner 0.901 0.905 0.915 0.898 0.871 0.859 0.871 0.848 0.841 0.846
Earner 0.422 0.432 0.418 0.421 0.408 0.435 0.432 0.448 0.461 0.445
Non-elderly females 0.557 0.590 0.560 0.551 0.544 0.538 0.547 0.516 0.518 0.529
Non-earner 0.851 0.830 0.838 0.857 0.850 0.817 0.816 0.806 0.808 0.827
Earner 0.429 0.489 0.456 0.443 0.441 0.450 0.459 0.436 0.437 0.445
Date Modified: 2009-06-03

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