多数 华人 是 加拿大 低收入群体? Really? I never know it b4.
About as likely to be unemployed
Unemployment rates among labour force participants
4 of Chinese origin similar to those for the general population. In 2001, 8.4% of Chinese labour force participants were unemployed, compared with 7.4% of those in the overall population.
As in the overall population, young people of Chinese origin are more likely to be unemployed than older adults. This is especially true for young men. In 2001, 18% of male Chinese labour force participants aged 15 to 24 were unemployed, compared with 14% of all young Canadian men in this same category. At the same time, 15% of young female Chinese labour force participants were unemployed, compared to 13% of their counterparts in the general population.
Incomes
In 2000,
5 the average income from all sources for Canadians of Chinese origin aged 15 and over was about $25,000, compared to almost $30,000 for all Canadian adults.
Table 7. Average incomes of the Chinese community and overall Canadian population, by age group and sex, 2000
As in the overall population, women of Chinese origin have lower incomes than their male counterparts. In 2000, the average income for adult women of Chinese origin aged 15 and over was just under $21,000, while for men it was $29,000. However, the income gap between women and men of Chinese origin is somewhat smaller than the gap in the overall population. That year, the average incomes of Chinese women were 72% those of their male counterparts, whereas the figure in the overall population was 62%.
Canadian seniors of Chinese origin also have relatively low incomes. In 2000, the average income from all sources for Canadians of Chinese origin aged 65 and over was $18,000, about $6,000 less than the income for all seniors, whose average income was $24,400. As with all seniors in Canada , women aged 65 and over of Chinese origin have lower incomes than their male counterparts. That year, the average income for senior women of Chinese origin was $15,600, compared with $21,000 for senior men of Chinese origin.
Canadians of Chinese origin receive about the same share of their income from earnings
6 as does the overall population. In 2000, Canadians of Chinese origin aged 15 and over said that 79% of their income came from earnings, compared with 77% for all Canadian adults. At the same time, Canadian adults of Chinese origin received slightly smaller proportion of their total income from government transfer payments than other adults. That year, 10% of the income of Canadians of Chinese origin aged 15 and over came from government transfers, while the average for all Canadian adults was 12%.
One in four with low incomes
Just over a quarter of all Canadians of Chinese origin have incomes that fall below Statistics Canada's low-income cut-offs. In 2000, 26% of the Chinese population in Canada had incomes below these official low-income cut-offs, compared with 16% of the overall population. As well, a relatively large share of Chinese children live in low income families. That year, 27% of Chinese children under the age of 15 lived in a situation considered to be low income, compared with 19% of all children in Canada.
Unattached Chinese adults are particularly likely to have low incomes. In 2001, 55% of Chinese people aged 15 and over living on their own had low incomes, compared 38% of their counterparts in the overall population.
Chinese seniors living on their own are particularly likely to have low incomes. In 2001, 70% of unattached Chinese people aged 65 and over had incomes below the low-income cut-offs, compared with just 40% of all seniors living on their own. As with the overall population, unattached senior Chinese women are the most likely to be classified as having low-incomes. Indeed, almost 3 out of 4 of these women (74%) had incomes below the low-income cut-offs that year, compared with 59% of unattached senior Chinese men and 43% of all women aged 65 and over.
The Chinese Community in Canada