Term: Income Unknown (Income Not Found (NF))

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Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2010-10-21

Definition:

A group of individuals who cannot be assigned a neighbourhood income from census data, and are therefore excluded from all neighbourhood income quintile analyses. Individuals included in the "Income Unknown" group include:

• residents of long-term care facilities,
  
• residents of some personal care homes,
  
• residents of psychiatric facilities,
  
• federal and long-term prisoners,
  
• wards of the Public Trustee and Child and Family Services, and
  
• residents of various areas reporting no income in the census.

NOTE: For the census, Statistics Canada suppresses average household income values for dissemination areas (DA) with populations less than 250 persons: these are grouped into income unknown for analyses using the census.

Related concepts 

• Income Quintiles - Child Health Income Quintiles

Related terms 

• Average Household Income (Neighbourhood Income)
• Dissemination Area (DA)
• Income Quintiles / Income Quintile

References 

• Martens P, Brownell M, Au W, MacWiliam L, Prior H, Schultz J, Guenette W, Elliott L, Buchan S, Anderson M, Caetano P, Metge C, Santos R, Serwonka K. Health Inequities in Manitoba: Is the Socioeconomic Gap in Health Widening or Narrowing Over Time? Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2010. [Report] [Summary] [Updates and Errata] [Additional Materials] (View)
• Martens PJ, Fransoo R, McKeen N, The Need to Know Team, Burland E, Jebamani L, Burchill C, De Coster C, Ekuma O, Prior H, Chateau D, Robinson R, Metge C. Patterns of Regional Mental Illness Disorder Diagnoses and Service Use in Manitoba: A Population-Based Study. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2004. [Report] [Summary] [Additional Materials] (View)

Term used in 

• Garland A, Fransoo R, Olafson K, Ramsey C, Yogendran M, Chateau D, McGowan K. The Epidemiology and Outcomes of Critical Illness in Manitoba. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2012. [Report] [Summary] (View)