Broadcasts were not widely available until September 1966, and fewer than 1% of Canadian households had a color television set at the time.

It is constructed from responses to four attitudinal questions posed to a random sample of Canadian households.

By contrast an average native Canadian household paid $20,259 in tax and consumed $10,102 dollars in services.

This will better protect Canadian households that may be vulnerable to economic shocks or an increase in interest rates.

In 2000, about 22% or 2.5 million Canadian households fell below the minimum amount required to afford a basic home, gauged at $25, 920.

The series was a hit, making Ewanuick a familiar face in Canadian households.

With this information, he determines the proportion of Canadian households that have insufficient income to afford those necessities.

Since the early 1970s, the poverty rate has declined from about 12% of Canadian households to about 5%.

But the code does not cover cable television, which reaches more than 80 percent of Canadian households.

There was even talk of trying to mail a copy to each Canadian household, but it was decided this would be too expensive.