Charitable Donors

Definition:

Charitable donors as a proportion of all tax filers (percent)

Methods and Limitations:

Tax filers are people who filed a tax return for the reference year and were alive at the end of the year. Information in this table is based on a version of the T1 file produced 9 months after the reference year. Later versions of the T1 file will contain some additional records.

Charitable donor is defined as a tax filer reporting a charitable donation amount on line 340 of the personal income tax form.

Source(s):

Statistics Canada. Table 11-10-0002-01  Tax filers with charitable donations by sex and age