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Table 20 Median after-tax income, by economic family type
	1985	1995	2005
	2005 constant $
Economic families, two people or more	50,200	47,900	56,000
Elderly families	34,200	37,500	40,400
Married couples only	29,800	34,800	38,900
All other elderly families	45,600	46,500	45,600
Non-elderly families	52,600	50,200	59,700
Married couples only	49,500	46,000	55,700
Two-parent families with children	55,700	54,400	65,700
Married couples with other relatives	69,400	68,200	85,100
Lone-parent families	22,200	24,400	32,700
All other non-elderly families	40,800	41,000	51,900
Unattached individuals	19,200	18,500	21,400
Elderly males	17,200	19,700	20,800
Elderly females	15,600	17,400	19,100
Non-elderly males	24,000	20,700	24,900
Non-elderly females	20,500	18,700	20,600
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 202-0605.

Table 21 Persons with low income after tax
	1985	1995	2005
	thousands
All persons	3,290	4,185	3,409
Persons under 18 years	1,013	1,228	788
Persons 18 to 64 years	1,912	2,675	2,379
Persons 65 years and older	364	282	242
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 202-0802.

Table 22 Family units and net worth, by net worth group, 2005
	Family units¹		Net worth²
	thousands	%	$ millions	%
All family units' net worth groups³	13,348	100.0	4,862,486	100.0
Negative net worth	872	6.5	-12,751	-0.3
Less than $5,000	1,220	9.1	2,068	0.0
$5,000 to $14,999	854	6.4	7,762	0.2
$15,000 to $29,999	791	5.9	17,149	0.4
$30,000 to $49,999	602	4.5	23,235	0.5
$50,000 to $74,999	760	5.7	46,275	1.0
$75,000 to $99,999	583	4.4	51,702	1.1
$100,000 to $149,999	1,020	7.6	127,010	2.6
$150,000 to $249,999	1,487	11.1	293,647	6.0
$250,000 to $499,999	2,253	16.9	813,922	16.7
$500,000 to $999,999	1,807	13.5	1,233,616	25.4
$1,000,000 and over	1,098	8.2	2,258,851	46.5
1. Economic families (a group of two or more persons who live in the same dwelling and are related to each other by blood, marriage, common-law or adoption) and unattached individuals (a person living either alone or with others to whom he or she is unrelated).
2. Includes employer-sponsored Registered Pension Plans valued on a termination basis.
3. Includes family units with net worth of $0.
Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Financial Security (SFS).