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SHELTER COST [2 records]

Record 1 2016-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Urban Housing
  • Census
CONT

Shelter costs are a weighted average of rent, mortgage, insurance, property taxes, water, fuel and electricity costs.

OBS

shelter cost: term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • shelter costs

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Habitation et logement (Urbanisme)
  • Recensement
CONT

Les coûts liés au logement consistent en une moyenne pondérée des coûts de loyer, d'hypothèque, d'assurance, d'impôts fonciers, de l'eau, du carburant et de l'électricité.

OBS

coût d'habitation; coût lié au logement : termes habituellement utilisés au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • coûts d'habitation
  • coûts liés au logement

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Employment Benefits
DEF

Means the amount in Canadian dollars which the employee must pay to the employer for shelter where he is occupying Crown-held accommodation or is in receipt of shelter assistance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Avantages sociaux
DEF

Désigne le montant en dollars canadiens que l'employé doit payer à l'employeur lorsqu'il occupe un logement de l'État ou lorsqu'il bénéficie d'une aide au logement.

Spanish

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