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 last one adult and one child. It is possible that the number of individuals may be greater in the case of a family where there is a couple. If we have time and if you are interested, we could see whether we could do another calculation using data for individuals. We did not have to do that for today's presentation.
On March 3rd, 2009. See this statement in context.