Indices of deprivation — Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

The Ministry of Education (MEQ) calculates two deprivation indices annually for the 69 school service centers and linguistic school boards, namely: • the Socio-Economic Environment Index (IMSE), which is made up of the proportion of families with children whose mothers do not have a diploma, certificate or degree (representing two-thirds of the weight of the index) and the proportion of households whose parents were not employed during the reference week of the Canadian census (which represents a third of the weight of the index). • the Low Income Threshold Index (LFR) corresponds to the proportion of families with children whose income is close to or below the low income threshold. The low-income cut-off is defined as the income level at which families are estimated to spend 20% more than the overall average on food, housing, and clothing. It provides information that is used to estimat Publisher: Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec (via Open Government Canada). Delivered as a cleaned, analysis-ready CSV table.

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