Rural poverty discussion paper

Although these populations are similar to those impacted by poverty in urban regions, due to the special nature of rural regions, the number of people in each group who are impacted likely varies between urban and rural, and the nature and magnitude of Rural Poverty Discussion Paper Page vi the impacts on these rural populations may also differ from their urban counterparts. [...] Rural Poverty Outcomes Some of the impacts of poverty are similar in both rural and urban regions of Canada. [...] Many of the national data sets and studies employed by Statistics Canada, for example, report on poverty and related issues without an analysis of the variation between urban and rural (with the exception of the LICO releases). [...] Given the highly urban nature of Canada, it is not surprising that most of the headlines and most of the research about poverty are focused on provincial, national, or urban examinations of the size and nature of the problem. [...] There are 35 different LICOs based on a combination of area of residence and household size, summarized in Table 1. In general the threshold is lower in small urban and in rural (non-farm) areas of the country, meaning that individuals and households do not have to earn as much as their urban counterparts to move up to and over the LICO or poverty line.