Low income persistence
This indicator describes the percentage of tax filers that remain in low income from one year to the next and is interpreted in two-year intervals. For example, among single-parent households in 2022, 71.6% continued to be in low income in 2023. This data was made available by Statistics Canada.
Date Created: February 12, 2026
Update Frequency: Annual
Last Reviewed: For datasets that are only updated as required.
Accuracy, Completeness, and Known Issues: Data quality assessments are conducted by Statistics Canada. The data in this table does not contain flags related to poor data quality.
Attributes:
- Years: Reference period (two-year intervals)
- Region: All data are presented at the census metropolitan agglomeration level for Ottawa-Gatineau (Ontario part)
- Group: Sociodemographic trait
- Sub-group: Category within sociodemographic trait
- Percent: Percentage of tax filers who continue to be in low income from one year to the next
- Language: Indicates whether data labels are in English or French
Data steward: Community Safety and Well-Being Office
Data steward email: [email protected]
Department or Agency: Community and social services
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Additional Info
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| Last Updated | March 24, 2026, 20:39 (UTC) |
| Created | March 24, 2026, 20:39 (UTC) |
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Domain / Topic
Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
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Title
Title for the Dataset.
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Low income persistence |
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Description
A description of the dataset.
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This indicator describes the percentage of tax filers that remain in low income from one year to the next and is interpreted in two-year intervals. For example, among single-parent households in 2022, 71.6% continued to be in low income in 2023. This data was made available by Statistics Canada. Date Created: February 12, 2026 Attributes:
Data steward: Community Safety and Well-Being Office |
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Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.
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Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
File format of the dataset.
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Dataset Size
Dataset size in megabytes.
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48.0 |
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Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
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Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
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2026-02-10 |
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Time Period Data Span (start date)
Start date of the data in the dataset.
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Time Period Data Span (end date)
End date of time data in the dataset.
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GeoSpatial Area Data Span
A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.
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Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
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public |
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License
License used to access the dataset.
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https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/open-transparent-and-accountable-government/open-data/about-open-data |
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Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
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Location
Location of the dataset.
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https://od-dev2-ottawa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ottawa::low-income-persistence |
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Data Service
Data service for accessing a dataset.
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Owner
Owner of the dataset.
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[email protected] |
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Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
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City of Ottawa |
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Contact Point Email
The email to contact regarding access?
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[email protected] |
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Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
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City of Ottawa |
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Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
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Author
Author of the dataset.
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[email protected] |
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Author Email
Email of the author.
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Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
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2026-02-18 |
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Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
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f2e338cb8c2a46189522188cac715ed4 |
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Language
Language(s) of the dataset
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English |
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Link to dataset description
A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
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https://od-dev2-ottawa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ottawa::low-income-persistence |
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Persistent Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
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Globally Unique Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
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Contains data about individuals
Does the data hold data about individuals?
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Contains data about identifiable individuals
Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
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Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
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Portal Type
Platform type of the source portal.
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Version
Version of the datatset
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None |
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Source
Source of the dataset.
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None |
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Version notes
Version notes about the dataset.
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Is version of another dataset
Link to dataset that it is a version of.
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Other versions
Link to datasets that are versions of it.
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Provenance Text
Provenance Text of the data.
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City of Ottawa |
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Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
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Temporal resolution
Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
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GeoSpatial resolution in meters
Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
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GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.
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Indigenous Community Permission
Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
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Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
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The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
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Number of data rows
If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
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108 |
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Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
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13 |
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Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
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1404 |
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Number of data relations
If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
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Number of entities
If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
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Number of data properties
If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
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Data quality
Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
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Metric for data quality
A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.
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