Families and households

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This table presents census family structure and presence and ages of children for census families in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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The objective of the 2016 General Social Survey on Canadians at Work and Home was to collect information on the lifestyle behaviour of Canadians that impacts their health and well being both in the workplace and at home. The survey covered individuals aged 15 and older living in private households in the 10 provinces.

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Census indicator profile, based on the 2016 Census short-form questionnaire, Canada, provinces and territories, and health regions.

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This table presents census family structure and presence and ages of children for census families in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents age of child, census family structure and sex for children in census families in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This profile presents information from the 2016 Census of Population for various levels of geography, including provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, communities and census tracts. Using the search or browse options below, users can search for an area of interest by typing its place name, postal code or geographic code or by browsing a list. Data will be available according to the 2016 Census Program release schedule.

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This table presents household income statistics, structural type of dwelling and household type including census family structure for private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents family Market Basket Measure (MBM) low-income status, economic family structure, family size of economic family, ages of economic family members and number of earners in the economic family for economic families in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents individual Market Basket Measure (MBM) low-income status, household living arrangements for persons not in economic families, age and sex for persons not in economic families aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents structural type of dwelling, tenure, household size and number of bedrooms for private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions.

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Census indicator profile, based on the 2016 Census short-form questionnaire, Canada, provinces and territories, and health regions.

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This table presents census family structure and presence and ages of children for census families in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents age of child, census family structure and sex for children in census families in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This profile presents information from the 2016 Census of Population for various levels of geography, including provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, communities and census tracts. Using the search or browse options below, users can search for an area of interest by typing its place name, postal code or geographic code or by browsing a list. Data will be available according to the 2016 Census Program release schedule.

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This table presents household income statistics, structural type of dwelling and household type including census family structure for private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents family Market Basket Measure (MBM) low-income status, economic family structure, family size of economic family, ages of economic family members and number of earners in the economic family for economic families in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents individual Market Basket Measure (MBM) low-income status, household living arrangements for persons not in economic families, age and sex for persons not in economic families aged 15 years and over in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents structural type of dwelling, tenure, household size and number of bedrooms for private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions.

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This table presents family characteristics of children including presence of grandparents, Aboriginal identity, registered or treaty Indian status, age and sex for the population aged 0 to 14 years in private households of Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

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This table presents family characteristics of children including presence of grandparents, Aboriginal identity, registered or treaty Indian status, residence by Aboriginal geography, age and sex for the population aged 0 to 14 years in private households of Canada, provinces and territories.

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The purpose of the 2017 General Social Survey on Family is to explore the characteristics of Canadian families and monitor changes in these characteristics over time. Using information on the conjugal and parental history of respondents, this infographic examines the proportion and the characteristics of people in Canada aged 55 and older whose current relationship (marriage or common-law) was long-lasting, that is, had been ongoing for 30 years or more.

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This study uses the Census of Population and the 2017 General Social Survey on Family to examine the characteristics of the population living alone in Canada. The demographic, socioeconomic and housing characteristics of persons who live alone are examined, as well as their conjugal history, family relationships, and well-being indicators.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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This infographic presents results from the 1981 and 2016 Censuses of Population and the 2017 General Social Survey on Family. The infographic depicts changes over time and provides selected characteristics of persons in Canada who lived alone in the reference years, including demographic statistics such as marital status, age and sex as well as statistics on future intentions to marry.

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This infographic presents results from the 2017 General Social Survey on families; more specifically people aged 25 -64 years old and who reported being in a couple relationship with someone not living in their household.

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Everyone in Canada is, or has been, part of a family. The purpose of this Just the Facts edition is to celebrate families in Canada on Family Day 2019 (a statutory holiday in some provinces) by acknowledging their diversity and how they have changed over time. Data from the Census of Population and the General Social Survey together provide a snapshot of families today in the historical album of family life in Canada.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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This infographic presents results from the 2017 General Social Survey on families; more specifically the co-residence of adult children with their parents. The population of interest is of Canadians 18 years of age and over living with both parents, their mother only or their father only.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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This infographic presents results from the 2017 General Social Survey on families; more specifically grandparents in Canada. The population of interest is Canadians aged 45 and over who are grandparents.

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This guide focuses on the following topic: Family variables.

Provides information that enables users to effectively use, apply and interpret data from the 2006 Census. Each guide contains definitions and explanations on census concepts, data quality and historical comparability. Additional information will be included for specific variables to help general users better understand the concepts and questions used in the census.

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This guide focuses on the following topic: Family variables.

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The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) is the first Canada-wide survey of children. Starting in 1994, it will gather information on a sample of children and their life experiences. It will follow these children over time. The survey will collect information on children and their families, education, health, development, behaviour, friends, activities, etc. This document describes the survey instruments of cycle 4.

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This report discusses data quality pertaining to household variables (tenure, household maintainer, owner's major payments and gross rent) and dwelling characteristics (structural type of dwelling, number of rooms, number of bedrooms, period of construction, condition of dwelling and value of dwelling). The report also describes the various aspects of data processing that could impact data quality.

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This report presents the concepts relating to census families and economic families. It discusses the changes made to the definition of the census family for 2001, and how historical comparability is affected. The report also describes aspects of data collection and processing that could have an impact on the quality of the variable Relationship to Person 1, and how this variable, along with the related demographic variables - sex, age, marital status and common-law status - is processed to ensure consistency and to produce derived variables at the family level.

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This report focuses on five demographic variables: date of birth, age, sex, marital status and common-law status. The report describes how the data were collected, verified, processed, edited and imputed. The final section covers how the data were evaluated.

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The estimation of intergenerational earnings mobility is rife with measurement problems since the research does not observe permanent, lifetime earnings. Nearly all studies make corrections for mean variation in earnings because of the age differences among respondents. Recent works employ average earnings or instrumental variable methods to address the effects of measurement error as a result of transitory earnings shocks and mis-reporting. However, empirical studies of intergenerational mobility have paid no attention to the changes in earnings variance across the life cycle suggested by economic models of human capital investment.

Using information from the Intergenerational Income Data from Canada and the National Longitudinal Survey and Panel Study of Income Dynamics from the United States, this study finds a strong association between age at observation and estimated earnings persistence. Part of this age-dependence is related to a general increase in transitory earnings variance during the collection of data. An independent effect of life cycle investment is also identified. These findings are then applied to the variation among intergenerational earnings persistence studies. Among studies with similar methodologies, one-third of the variance in published estimates of earnings persistence is attributable to cross-study differences in the age of responding fathers. Finally, these results call into question tests for the importance of credit constraints based on measures of earnings at different points in the life cycle.

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The National Longitudinal Survey of Children (NLSC) is the first Canada-wide survey of children. Starting in 1994, it will gather information on a sample of children and their life experiences. It will follow these children over time, collecting information on the children and their families, education, health, development, behaviour, friends, activities, etc.

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This paper documents the work done to date on the construction of derived variables at the household and family levels for the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID).

Description: This is an administrative survey that collects demographic information annually from all provincial and territorial vital statistics registries on all marriages in Canada.