Canadian Income Survey, 2015 Statistics Canada. May 26, 2017.
Incidence of low income: For children 17 years of age and under, just over one million or 15.2% lived in low income in 2015. Among children living in two-parent families, 12.4% lived in low income, while 38.2% of children living in female headed lone-parent families lived in low income. Read more.