The evolution of elderly poverty in Canada

For consumption, a similar downward trend from the 1970s to the 1990s is evident, although the level of consumption poverty among the elderly is very sensitive to the treatment of housing flows and durables. [...] The coverage of each survey is catalogued in Table 1. On the income side, I use the economic family files of the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) for the earlier years and combine elements of the person and the economic family files of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for the later years. [...] The other years of the FAMEX and all of the SHS years sample the complete set of 10 provinces. [...] In the SCF, the available community size measure does not line up exactly with the categories for the LICO for some years of the survey.18. [...] I then graph the Statistics Canada measures (LICOs and LIMs) and compare the results to the ERPM in order to place the ERPM in the context of measures that may be more familiar.