This table was received from the Canadian Urban Sustainability Practitioners (CUSP) network as part of a collaboration with the Community Data Program team.
The Household home energy expenditures dimension in this table includes separate counts for households with fuel but not electricity payments, households with electricity but not fuel payments, and households with electricity and fuel payments.
Note on data quality and disclosure control:
For information on data quality, as well as random rounding, data suppression, and other methods of disclosure control, please consult the Guide to the Census of Population, 2016, Catalogue no. 98-304-X, and the reference guides for the individual topics.
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High average values
After-tax income figures prominently in the indicators in these tables. Low after-tax incomes may not reflect the true level of household wealth in some areas and the high home energy burden calculated as a result may be misleading. A common situation where income taxes are larger than total income occurs when capital gains are realized. After-tax income does not include capital gains, such as RRSP withdrawals – however the taxes paid on capital gains are included in the calculation of after-tax income. An affluent senior, living off RRSP withdrawals in a large detached home could easily have a large home energy cost burden that does not reflect a true state of energy poverty.
Extremely low after-tax incomes can create extremely high values for home energy costs as a percentage of after-tax income. These extreme values can greatly skew the average, limiting its utility in favour of median home energy costs as a percentage of after-tax income.