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February 18, 2010 9:58 PM Subscribe
I'm desperately looking for a comprehensive breakdown of income distribution in Canada. Help a statistics-challenged workshop leader.
I'm running a workshop next weekend on poverty in Canada for a group of teens, and one of the parts of the weekend that I'm working on is giving each of the kids a certain amount of fake money, which they'll use to "pay" for meals and activities throughout the weekend. The idea is to make the reality of poverty's impact stick with them, because all of a sudden, only a few will have most of the money.
The plan is to distribute the money to the participants on a representative basis, so if the distribution of yearly income was:
2% - 5000 or less
6% - 5001-10000
etc....totalling 100%.
The problem is, I can't find statistics that are any larger than 5 or 6 distribution groups in size, when I'd like at least 10 groups total, so that there's a good (but accurate) mix of the amount of money they each start with. I'll build in some variations in amounts that have to do with other demographic data, but I need a starting point that is fairly accurate (especially when it comes to the high income/low income). The data can be from anytime in the last decade. Alternately, I'll take US data, if I can't find anything else.
Thanks for any assist!
I'm running a workshop next weekend on poverty in Canada for a group of teens, and one of the parts of the weekend that I'm working on is giving each of the kids a certain amount of fake money, which they'll use to "pay" for meals and activities throughout the weekend. The idea is to make the reality of poverty's impact stick with them, because all of a sudden, only a few will have most of the money.
The plan is to distribute the money to the participants on a representative basis, so if the distribution of yearly income was:
2% - 5000 or less
6% - 5001-10000
etc....totalling 100%.
The problem is, I can't find statistics that are any larger than 5 or 6 distribution groups in size, when I'd like at least 10 groups total, so that there's a good (but accurate) mix of the amount of money they each start with. I'll build in some variations in amounts that have to do with other demographic data, but I need a starting point that is fairly accurate (especially when it comes to the high income/low income). The data can be from anytime in the last decade. Alternately, I'll take US data, if I can't find anything else.
Thanks for any assist!
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posted by liquado at 10:51 PM on February 18, 2010
posted by liquado at 10:51 PM on February 18, 2010
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