Status of Women committee  The statistics on welfare come from income tax data. It is a combination of data for individuals and families. We took the data we had, but in an ideal world, we would have used only the individual data. A family is made up of at least two people. A lone parent family includes at

Status of Women committee  The report on the status of women is generally a cost-recovery project. At the moment, we are looking for partners so that we can produce this report again.

Status of Women committee  We tried to put up some key statistics on Statistics Canada's website on an ongoing basis, so that there would always be an update on four key indicators. I cannot make any guarantees about a fourth report. There are different ways of producing statistics on unemployment rates.

Status of Women committee  I do not think so.

Status of Women committee  Yes, we do have the figures. According to the 2007 survey, 721,000 individuals had contributed to employment insurance: 446,000 men and 275,000 women. The breakdown in the number of individuals receiving benefits is as follows: 269,000 men and 153,000 women. In other words, 66% o

Status of Women committee  We would like to thank the committee for inviting us to appear before you today. As was mentioned, we had very little time to prepare. If you have some specific questions we cannot answer, we would be pleased to send you additional information after the meeting. My colleague Geo

Human Resources committee  There have been two questions related basically to how much we can produce small-area information, because we're working with low geographical data. Once every five years we have the census of the population, the long form. In 2006 you could have very large geographic breakdowns

Human Resources committee  Each of the measures has its limitation. For me, the biggest drawback to the LICO, which we've used since the 1960s, is the fact that it lumps the large cities together, because of the survey it used to calculate its threshold. It doesn't have a sample size to be able to provide

Human Resources committee  No.

Human Resources committee  My copy of the presentation is in English only. The title is "Cyclical stability for children/adults and significant change for the elderly".

Human Resources committee  I'm on page 5, the slide entitled "Cyclical stability for children/adults and significant change for the elderly". We'll be numbering the pages next time. I'm very sorry. With respect to cyclical stability, you will note that there is a drop for persons 65 years and over. The l

Human Resources committee  I skipped a page. My deck was in a slightly different...I'm on page 7. So I skipped page 5.

Human Resources committee  Yes, I did page 6. Do you want to go to page 5? I'm sorry, my deck--I guess the order of my deck was slightly different from yours. I'm sorry about that. The pages are not numbered. Do you have the slide with the three blue lines? On my copy, it is page 5.

Human Resources committee  The three blue lines?

Human Resources committee  Thank you for your invitation to speak with you this morning. We will begin by putting low-income measures into context. I don't know if everyone has received a copy of the presentation. As Mr. Fedyk mentioned, Canada, like many other countries, does not have any official measu