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Its a constant thing that we talk about in politics everyone wants to appeal to middle class voters and talk about their fears their hopes. I am using provincial data as it keeps things consistent with the cost of living on a regional basis for example someone earning 100000 in Toronto Ontario isnt.
The StatCan data broke down Canadians into five equal groups based on reported income and then collected the middle three groups to represent the.
What is the definition of middle class in canada. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD defines a member of the middle class as anyone who earns between 75 per cent and 200 per cent of median household income after tax. Because in Canada we have this rhetoric right the middle class if youre a Trudeau liberal that was working hard to join it we can all sing along you know with that tune. Its a constant thing that we talk about in politics everyone wants to appeal to middle class voters and talk about their fears their hopes.
But when they talk about those things theyre really talking for the most part about. The middle three groups or quintiles represent what you might call the middle class. The numbers refer to all households that is individuals living alone couples couples with children.
On a global scale researchers generally define the middle class as the segment of society that earns between 10 and 100 a day. By that measure most Canadians are. The StatCan data broke down Canadians into five equal groups based on reported income and then collected the middle three groups to represent the.
Statistics Canada has no clear definition of the middle class either although they usually look to trends in median income. Obviously the middle class means different things to different. The middle class is a description given to individuals and households who typically fall between the working class and the upper class within a socio-economic hierarchy.
Non-Marxist researchers have discovered that by the occupational criterion Canada has a large and growing middle class of white-collar workers eg 25 of workers in 1921 55 in 1986. A smaller and rather stable blue-collar sector eg 31 in 1921 40 in 1986. And fewer workers in the primary sector fishing logging and mining and in agriculture the number of workers in agriculture declined from 33 in 1921 to 4 in 1986.
In education the middle. A social group that consists of well-educated people such as doctors lawyers and teachers who have good jobs and are not poor but are not very rich. The upper middle class tend to go into business or the professions becoming for example lawyers doctors or accountants.
The Government of Canada defines the middle class using a broader set of characteristics than merely income Morneau said in the House on Jan. He suggested the term to be more reliant. The middle class is a social group that generates significant discretionary income with their labor.
The following are common characteristics of the middle class. The middle class is loosely defined as those who fall into the middle group of workers compared to the bottom 20 or top 20. However the middle class has also been defined as.
Canadas first-ever Minister of Middle Class Prosperity declined to provide a clear definition of the middle class but she said having kids enrolled in hockey is a telltale sign. The middle class in Canada varies depending on how middle-class is defined. For the purposes of this analysis I am considering that the middle-class is defined by someone in the 50 to 80 income percentile in their province.
I am using provincial data as it keeps things consistent with the cost of living on a regional basis for example someone earning 100000 in Toronto Ontario isnt. Other Definitions of Middle-Class Income Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich suggests that the middle class should be defined as households making between 50 below and 50 above the median. This would put the middle class in the 34352 to 103055 income range based on the Census median income of 68703.
Some loosely define the middle class through home ownershipthe median income of homeowners 73313 is roughly 80 higher than the income of renters. In that case perhaps upper middle class means owning a home valued above the median price of 201900 according to Zillow. Here again though geography matters.
In major metropolitan areas sky-high rents place home.