Source: OECD Income Distribution Database. For example, over the period 2005-2010, the proportion of low-income Canadians is halved after one year, and only 1.5% of them lived in low-income for up to 6 years based on the Low-income Cut-Offs (LICO) after tax (Government of Canada, 2016|ij). However, poverty is often assessed by measuring the number of Canadians with low-incomes.