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Assessing the financial vulnerability of households across Canadian regions

9 Feb 2011

For measure of debt serviceability and the share of financially- one, the quality of this data is reliant on the accuracy of vulnerable households, combined, have been allocated 40% the responses. [...] However, over the past two years, vulnerability has we’ve provided an “adjusted” index reading that builds in headed higher right across the board, and for the majority of the impact of an increase in the Bank of Canada’s overnight regions, increases in the index began to accelerate in 2007. [...] The regions to-income ratios have been the major catalysts driving up that are most affected by this adjustment are those that have vulnerability – the debt-to-income ratio has followed an the highest share of individuals at, or near, a position of upward track in all regions since the mid-part of the 2000s, financial stress (i.e., 40% debt service ratio). [...] On the plus side, Note: micro-data data differs from national aggregates due to methodological rapidly-appreciating home prices in the province has left the differences debt-to-asset ratio – a metric of household leverage – below reflecting in large part the strength of housing markets and the Canadian average. [...] While the level of the index is not significantly Debt-service ratios have been falling and remain in a higher than third place Ontario, its rate of increase since comfortable range – despite rising indebtedness, the falling 2007 has been unrivalled across the country, pulling the cost of borrowing has been pulling down the share of income province closer to first place British Columbia.
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Authors

Alexander, Craig

Pages
8
Published in
Canada

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