OTTAWA –
Today, Canadians will take a look at how government support, such as the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, affected incomes early in the pandemic.
This morning, Statistics Canada will release results from the 2021 national census, which analyzes the number of people receiving COVID-19 benefits in 2020 and how those benefits affect them. to the bigger picture.
Income data includes tax and welfare records from the Canadian Internal Revenue Service and will allow for some of the most detailed analysis of labor and prosperity patterns during the pandemic.
Experts say income data will form a complex picture in a pandemic, with the CERB able to skew the incomes of the lowest earners and above, but skewed incomes. of a large group of other workers.
They say older Canadians leaving the workforce, younger Canadians experiencing greater labor mobility and the expansion of the temporary foreign worker program are larger, longer-term trends. than need attention.
Statistics Canada will also release findings on changes in Canadian families, housing trends and the country’s veteran and military population.
This Canadian Press report was first published on July 13, 2022.
