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  "parent": "consumer-prices-victoria",
  "category": "Work and income",
  "title": "Median family income after inflation, Greater Victoria",
  "geography": "Victoria census metropolitan area (Greater Victoria)",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "Market and economy-wide factors",
    "Federal and provincial tax and benefit policy"
  ],
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  "display_value": "$121,850",
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  "period": "Calendar year 2023",
  "period_start": "2023-01-01",
  "period_end": "2023-12-31",
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    "previous_value": 118156,
    "change_percent": 3.1,
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  "trend_basis": "$121,850 in 2023 against $113,930 in 2022 as reported, or $118,156 in 2023 dollars (+3.1% after inflation). Five years (2018 to 2023): +5.4% after inflation.",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "right_direction": "A higher income after inflation means the typical family can buy more.",
  "since_text": "People in low income (after-tax low income measure): 11.9% in 2023, 12.8% in 2022.",
  "caveats": [
    "Calculated here. Income is Statistics Canada’s median total income of all census families, before tax, from tax returns. Prices are the annual average consumer price index for Victoria.",
    "The median is the middle family: half had more income, half had less.",
    "Total income includes government transfers. In 2020 and 2021 pandemic benefits raised many incomes.",
    "The low income line is the share of all people in families or living alone whose after-tax income is below Statistics Canada’s low income measure (CFLIM-AT, table 11-10-0018-01)."
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          "name": "In 2023 dollars (after inflation)",
          "area": "cma",
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              "period": "2000",
              "value": 85038
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            {
              "period": "2001",
              "value": 89011
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            {
              "period": "2002",
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            {
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            {
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            {
              "period": "2005",
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            {
              "period": "2006",
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            {
              "period": "2007",
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            {
              "period": "2008",
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            {
              "period": "2009",
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              "period": "2010",
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              "period": "2011",
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              "period": "2014",
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            {
              "period": "2015",
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            {
              "period": "2016",
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            {
              "period": "2017",
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            {
              "period": "2018",
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    {
      "title": "People in low income, Greater Victoria (%)",
      "fmt": "dec1",
      "unit": "%",
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        {
          "name": "After-tax low income (CFLIM-AT)",
          "area": "cma",
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              "period": "2001",
              "value": 14.8
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              "period": "2002",
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            {
              "period": "2003",
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            {
              "period": "2004",
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              "period": "2005",
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            {
              "period": "2006",
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            {
              "period": "2007",
              "value": 13.8
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            {
              "period": "2008",
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            {
              "period": "2009",
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            {
              "period": "2011",
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              "period": "2012",
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            {
              "period": "2013",
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            {
              "period": "2014",
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            {
              "period": "2015",
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            {
              "period": "2016",
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            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 13.9
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            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 13.6
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            {
              "period": "2019",
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            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 10.1
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            {
              "period": "2021",
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            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 12.8
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 11.9
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
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  "calc": {
    "formula": "Income in 2023 dollars = income in year × (price index 2023 ÷ price index in that year). Change after inflation = 2023 income ÷ 2022 income in 2023 dollars − 1.",
    "steps": [
      "Price index for Victoria (2002 = 100): 142.9 in 2022, 148.2 in 2023.",
      "Median family income: $113,930 in 2022, $121,850 in 2023.",
      "2022 income in 2023 dollars: $113,930 × 148.2 ÷ 142.9 = $118,156.",
      "$121,850 ÷ $118,156 − 1 = +3.1%.",
      "Five years: price index 125.9 in 2018. 2018 income in 2023 dollars: $98,240 × 148.2 ÷ 125.9 = $115,641.",
      "$121,850 ÷ $115,641 − 1 = +5.4% after inflation."
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        "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 11-10-0009-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product."
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        "area": "British Columbia",
        "source": {
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