Table 1.

Income classification scheme¹.

Before-Tax Low-Income Cut-Offs (LICOs), 2004
Family size	Population of community of residence
	500,000 +
1	$20,337
2	$25,319
3	$31,126
4	$37,791
5	$42,862
6	$48,341
7 +	$53,821

¹Notes: this table uses the 1992 base. Income refers to total pretax household income.

Source: prepared by the Canadian Council on Social Development using Statistics Canada's Low Income Cut-Offs, from Low income cut-offs for 2004 and low income measures for 2002 Catalogue #75F0002MIE2005003.