This table provides housing and shelter cost data for different household types. Of particular note is the ability to disaggregate households by core housing need.
Core housing need refers to whether a private household's housing falls below at least one of the indicator thresholds for housing adequacy, affordability or suitability, and would have to spend 30% or more of its total before-tax income to pay the median rent of alternative local housing that is acceptable (attains all three housing indicator thresholds).
Housing indicator thresholds are defined as follows:
Adequate housing is reported by their residents as not requiring any major repairs.
Affordable housing has shelter costs equal to less than 30% of total before-tax household income.
Suitable housing has enough bedrooms for the size and composition of resident households according to the National Occupancy Standard (NOS), conceived by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and provincial and territorial representatives.
Only private, non-farm, non-reserve and owner- or renter-households with incomes greater than zero and shelter-cost-to-income ratios less than 100% are assessed for 'core housing need.'
(from:https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3Var.pl?Function=DEC&Id=1230313)
The Demographic Status of Household dimension in this table is split across three files:
Demographic
- Total - Aboriginal status of household
- Aboriginal household
- Non-Aboriginal household
- Total- Immigrant status of household
- Households with at least one member who is an immigrant
- Households with at least one member who is a Recent immigrant
Visible Minority Part 1
- Total - Visible Minority status of household
- Visible Minority (at least one person)
- No member of household is Visible Minority
- South Asian household (at least one person)
- Chinese household (at least one person)
- Black household (at least one person)
- Filipino household (at least one person)
- Latin American household (at least one person)
Visible Minority Part 2
- Total - Visible Minority status of household
- Visible Minority (at least one person)
- No member of household is Visible Minority
- Arab household (at least one person)
- Southeast Asian household (at least one person)
- West Asian household (at least one person)
- Korean household (at least one person)
- Japanese household (at least one person)