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Families, marital status, households and dwelling characteristics [1]

2006 Census
Author: 
Statistics Canada
Source: 
Statistics Canada
Format: 
Report
Publication Date: 
12 Sep 2007
AVAILABILITY
Release main page (links to reports and tables) [2]

Highlights:

- The number of common-law-couple families increased between 2001 and 2006, more than five times the gain observed for married-couple families and more than double the growth of lone-parent families.

- The 2006 Census enumerated same-sex married couples for the first time. Of the 45,345 same-sex couples counted, 7,465 were married couples.

- Households have been declining in size over the past century. In 2006, there were more than three times as many one-person households as those consisting of five or more people.

Region: 
Canada [3]
Tags: 
statistics [4]
demographics [5]

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[1] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/07/09/families-marital-status-households-and-dwelling [2] http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/release/familieshouseholds.cfm [3] https://childcarecanada.org/taxonomy/term/7864 [4] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/statistics [5] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/demographics