Except for Workers Compensation, which had 150 recipients in the Clarenville area in 1999, most of these transfer payments individually affect between 600 and 1,000 people in the Clarenville communities. The chart below indicates overall levels of these transfer payments.

Transfer Payments-1999

Source: Compiled by the Community Accounts Unit, based on Canada Customs and Revenue Agency summary information as provided by Small Area and Administrative Data Division, Statistics Canada. *2001 population figures are the closest available population figures. Some distortion may result.

As the chart above demonstrates, a substantial number of people in each region receive some form of transfer payment as part of their income. The Clarenville and Economic Zone 15 figures are higher than the provincial figures.