Transfer payments a larger share of household income of non-seniors In the year 2000, virtually all households in Calgary received transfer payments from government. The payments received by recent immigrant households were somewhat higher than those going to Canadian-born and earlier immigrant households, both in dollar terms and relative to income.
This pattern is found among households of the Canadian-born as well as immigrants, despite the fact that there is much less crowding in households of the Canadian-born than in households of recent immigrants.