Why Does Canada Have No Statistics on the Number of Poor

question 48

Multiple Choice

Why does Canada have no statistics on the number of poor people living in the nation?

• A) because, relative to poverty in other nations, Canada has no "real" poor people.
• B) because there are so few of them that it is not worth counting
• C) because it is too difficult to count poor people
• D) because there is no official definition of poverty

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