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Title   Child Poverty Profile 1998
Date   Autumn 2001
No.   Report No. 114

Child Poverty Profile 1998 is a special report in the National Council of Welfare's annual series Poverty Profile. The report uses Statistics Canada's Survey of Consumer Finances and Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics to track the changes in poverty rates in Canada. Child poverty in Canada is not limited to one specific group of children, but the report points out several groups of particular concern, including Aboriginal children.

Press Release: Federal Government Needs to Keep Child Poverty a Priority

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