Earnings Inequality
Statistics on Inequality
This page contains statistics on earnings inequality in Canada from 1983—2016 based on Statistics Canada’s T1PMF. See Description of Data, Sampling, and Variables used to Compute All Statistics and Description of Files Used to Create All Figures for additional details.
Available Inequality .csv Data Files
Stata .do files and associated .pdf figures:
Inequality_figure1a.do (figure1a.pdf)
Evolution of changes in percentiles (relative to initial year) for log earnings, log ‘permanent earnings’, and log earnings residuals. Available for following subgroups: men, women, both.
Inequality_figure1b.do (figure1b.pdf)
Evolution of changes in top percentiles (relative to initial year) for log earnings, log ‘permanent earnings’, and log earnings residuals. Available for following subgroups: men, women, both.
Inequality_figure2a.do (figure2a.pdf)
Evolution of 90—10 percentile differences and 2.56 x standard deviation of log earnings, log ‘permanent earnings’, and log earnings residuals. Available for following subgroups: men, women, both.
Inequality_figure2a_normalized.do (figure2a_normalized.pdf)
Evolution of 90—10 percentile differences and 2.56 x standard deviation (relative to initial year) of log earnings, log ‘permanent earnings’, and log earnings residuals. Available for following subgroups: men, women, both.
Inequality_figure2b.do (figure2b.pdf)
Evolution of 90—50 and 50—10 percentile differences of log earnings, log ‘permanent earnings’, and log earnings residuals. Available for following subgroups: men, women, both.
Inequality_figure2b_normalized.do (figure2b_normalized.pdf)
Evolution of 90—50 and 50—10 percentile differences (relative to initial year) of log earnings, log ‘permanent earnings’, and log earnings residuals. Available for following subgroups: men, women, both.
