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Families and Households Highlight Tables, 2011 Census

Census family structure including intact families and stepfamilies for couple families with children in private households, 2011 counts, all couples, for Canada, provinces and territories

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This table presents census family structure including intact families and stepfamilies for couple families in private households by conjugal status of the couple. The column headings are: geographic name and census family structure including intact families and stepfamilies for couples with children. The census family structure including intact families and stepfamilies for couples with children is divided into total couples with children, intact families, total stepfamilies, simple stepfamilies and complex stepfamilies. The rows are: geographic names along with their corresponding values.

Census family structure including intact families and stepfamilies for couple families with children in private households, 2011 counts, all couples, for Canada, provinces and territories
Geographic name Census family structure including intact families and stepfamilies 1
for couples with children 2
Total - Couples with children 2 Intact
families 3 		Total - stepfamilies Simple stepfamilies Complex stepfamilies
Sort highest to lowest Sort lowest to highest Sort highest to lowest Sort lowest to highest Sort highest to lowest Sort lowest to highest Sort highest to lowest Sort lowest to highest Sort highest to lowest Sort lowest to highest Sort highest to lowest Sort lowest to highest
Canada ! 3,684,675 3,220,335 464,335 271,925 192,410
Newfoundland and Labrador 55,575 49,060 6,510 3,790 2,725
Prince Edward Island 15,280 13,180 2,100 1,120 980
Nova Scotia 90,545 77,395 13,150 7,815 5,335
New Brunswick 76,375 65,170 11,205 6,665 4,540
Quebec ! 824,865 692,310 132,560 79,375 53,180
Ontario ! 1,482,220 1,318,900 163,320 95,590 67,730
Manitoba ! 130,795 114,985 15,805 8,480 7,330
Saskatchewan ! 107,980 93,375 14,610 7,545 7,060
Alberta ! 423,720 372,930 50,780 28,945 21,840
British Columbia ! 464,800 412,285 52,510 31,695 20,820
Yukon ! 3,385 2,850 535 305 235
Northwest Territories ! 4,950 4,195 755 385 365
Nunavut ! 4,205 3,700 500 220 285

Note(s):

Footnote 1

A census family refers to a married couple (with or without children of either and/or both spouses), a common-law couple (with or without children of either and/or both partners) or a lone parent of any marital status, with at least one child. A couple may be of opposite sex or same sex. A couple family with children may be further classified as either an intact family in which all children are the biological and/or adopted children of both married spouse or of both common-law partners or a stepfamily with at least one biological or adopted child of only one married spouse or common-law partner and whose birth or adoption preceded the current relationship. A simple stepfamily is a couple family in which all children are biological or adopted children of one, and only one, married spouse or common-law partner whose birth or adoption preceded the current relationship. A complex stepfamily consists of any of the following:
    •   family in which there is at least one child of both parents and at least one child of only one parent
    •   family in which there is at least one child of each parent
    •   family in which there is at least one child of both parents and at least one child of each parent.

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Footnote 2

Refers to couples with at least one child aged 24 and under.

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Footnote 3

Includes couple families with children aged 24 and under for whom it cannot be determined if there are stepchildren present.

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