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The incidence of low income is measured as the percentage of families living below the AT-LICO. The first row of Table 3 shows that 16.8% of families in 1999 would be below the AT-LICO if there were no child benefits. This can be compared with the shares of families below the AT-LICO under the 1996 CTB, the 1999 CCTB/NCB and the 2004 CCTB/NCB as a partial measure of the success of these programs. For example, the 2004 CCTB/NCB reduces the number of families living below the AT-LICO by 4.4 percentage points, to 12.4%.
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