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- Articles and reports: 89-652-X2024001Description: Based on data from the 2017 General Social Survey on family, this article examines the timing and risk of dissolution of first unions in Canada. This is a comparative analysis by sex and landed immigrant status which focuses on people who were aged 20 and over at the time of the survey and who had already been in a couple, marriage or common-law union, at least once.Release date: 2024-03-11
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202407137746Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-03-11
- Table: 98-10-0083-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area partFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Married spouses or common-law partners in private households, 2021 Census — 100% dataVariable list: Couples by distribution of income between married spouses or common-law partners (47), Presence of children 0 to 17 in census family (5), Characteristics of couple (19)Description: Distribution of income between married spouses or common-law partners and characteristics of couples, including presence of children for married spouses or common-law partners.Release date: 2023-11-15
- Table: 98-10-0084-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Married spouses or common-law partners in private households, 2021 Census — 100% dataVariable list: Couples by distribution of income between married spouses or common-law partners (68), Gender diversity status of couple family (7), Presence of children 0 to 17 in census family (5), Characteristics of couple (19)Description: Distribution of income between married spouses or common-law partners by characteristics of couples, including gender diversity status of couples and presence of children for married spouses or common-law partners.Release date: 2023-11-15
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023003Description:
This infographic presents findings on changes in the frequency of disagreements within couples since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Also included are findings on the prevalence of disagreements within couples regarding decisions related to the ongoing pandemic situation. Data come from the 2022 Canadian Social Survey - Well-being and Family Relationships.
Release date: 2023-01-11 - Profile of a community or region: 98-316-XDescription:
This product presents information from the Census of Population for various levels of geography, including provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, communities and census tracts. Data are from the Census of Population and include characteristics for: population, age, sex, dwellings, families, marital status, language, income, education and labour as examples.
Release date: 2022-12-15 - Table: 39-10-0055-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number of marriages and various nuptiality indicators (crude marriage rate, number of marriages of different-gender or same-gender couples [when available], total first-marriage rate and probability of ever marrying according to the first-marriage table), by place of occurrence, 1991 to most recent year.Release date: 2022-11-14
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202231831505Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2022-11-14
- Table: 39-10-0051-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number of divorces and various divorce indicators (crude divorce rate, divorce rate for married persons, age-standardized divorce rate, total divorce rate, mean and median duration of marriage, median duration of divorce proceedings, percentage of joint divorce applications), by place of occurrence, 1970 to most recent year.Release date: 2022-11-14
- Table: 39-10-0054-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number of divorces and divorce rate per 1,000 marriages, by duration of marriage and place of occurrence, 1970 to most recent year.Release date: 2022-11-14
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- Table: 98-10-0083-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area partFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Married spouses or common-law partners in private households, 2021 Census — 100% dataVariable list: Couples by distribution of income between married spouses or common-law partners (47), Presence of children 0 to 17 in census family (5), Characteristics of couple (19)Description: Distribution of income between married spouses or common-law partners and characteristics of couples, including presence of children for married spouses or common-law partners.Release date: 2023-11-15
- Table: 98-10-0084-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Married spouses or common-law partners in private households, 2021 Census — 100% dataVariable list: Couples by distribution of income between married spouses or common-law partners (68), Gender diversity status of couple family (7), Presence of children 0 to 17 in census family (5), Characteristics of couple (19)Description: Distribution of income between married spouses or common-law partners by characteristics of couples, including gender diversity status of couples and presence of children for married spouses or common-law partners.Release date: 2023-11-15
- Profile of a community or region: 98-316-XDescription:
This product presents information from the Census of Population for various levels of geography, including provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, communities and census tracts. Data are from the Census of Population and include characteristics for: population, age, sex, dwellings, families, marital status, language, income, education and labour as examples.
Release date: 2022-12-15 - Table: 39-10-0055-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number of marriages and various nuptiality indicators (crude marriage rate, number of marriages of different-gender or same-gender couples [when available], total first-marriage rate and probability of ever marrying according to the first-marriage table), by place of occurrence, 1991 to most recent year.Release date: 2022-11-14
- Table: 39-10-0051-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number of divorces and various divorce indicators (crude divorce rate, divorce rate for married persons, age-standardized divorce rate, total divorce rate, mean and median duration of marriage, median duration of divorce proceedings, percentage of joint divorce applications), by place of occurrence, 1970 to most recent year.Release date: 2022-11-14
- Table: 39-10-0054-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number of divorces and divorce rate per 1,000 marriages, by duration of marriage and place of occurrence, 1970 to most recent year.Release date: 2022-11-14
- Table: 39-10-0056-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Mean age and median age at marriage, for persons who married in a given year, by legal marital status, gender (when available), the couple's gender composition (when available) and place of occurrence, 1991 to most recent year.Release date: 2022-11-14
- Table: 39-10-0057-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number of persons who married in a given year and age-specific marriage rate per 1,000 unmarried persons, by legal marital status, gender (when available) and place of occurrence, 1991 to most recent year.Release date: 2022-11-14
- Table: 39-10-0052-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Mean age and median age at divorce and at marriage, for persons who divorced in a given year, by sex or gender and place of occurrence, 1970 to most recent year.Release date: 2022-03-09
- Table: 39-10-0053-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number of persons who divorced in a given year and age-specific divorce rates per 1,000 legally married persons, by sex or gender and place of occurrence, 1970 to most recent year.Release date: 2022-03-09
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- Articles and reports: 11-008-X20060019198Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article uses the General Social Survey on family history to briefly examine the basic characteristics of Canadians who have legally married once, twice or more than twice. It then uses a proportional hazard model to identify some of the factors that are associated with ending a first and a second marriage by divorce or separation.
Release date: 2006-06-28 - Articles and reports: 11F0019M2005272Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper makes use of matched tax-return data for daughters, their parents, their partners and their partners' parents to investigate the interactions between intergenerational mobility and marital matching for young couples in Canada. We show how assortative mating contributes to intergenerational household income persistence. The strength of the association between sons-in-law's income and women's parental income means that the intergenerational link between household incomes is stronger than that found for daughters' own incomes alone. This is also the case when viewed from the other side, so that daughters' and their partners' earnings are related to partners' parental income. These results indicate that assortative matching magnifies individual-level intergenerational persistence.
In the second part of the paper we consider assortative mating by parental income. We find that daughter's parental income has an elasticity of almost 0.2 with respect to her partner's parental income. This association is of approximately the same magnitude as the intergenerational link between parents' and children's incomes. We investigate variations in the correlation between the parental incomes across several measured dimensions; cohabiting couples have lower correlations, as do those who form partnerships early, those who live in rural areas and most interestingly, those who later divorce. We interpret this last result as evidence that, on average, couples with parental incomes that are more similar enjoy a more stable match.
Release date: 2005-12-08 - Articles and reports: 11-008-X20050017961Geography: CanadaDescription:
Research consistently shows that delaying marriage tends to increase the likelihood that a person will never marry. After age 30, a single person may not wish to marry; it may seem less feasible or less desirable than it did when they were younger.
This article looks at "mature singles," that is, men and women older than the average age at which people first marry (28 for women, 30 for men) but not yet past prime working-age (under 55). These men and women numbered over 1.1 million in 2001; they had never legally married and were not living common-law at the time of the survey. More than half a million of them did not think they would ever get married. The article examines some of the differences between those mature singles who do not expect to marry and those who do.
Release date: 2005-06-07 - 44. Marital satisfaction during the retirement years ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-008-X20040047776Geography: CanadaDescription:
The years leading up to retirement may confront people with new challenges as well as opportunities. In addition to health, finances and several other factors, family relationships in general and satisfaction with marriage in particular greatly influence couples' experience of these years.
This article uses data from the 2001 and 1995 General Social Surveys (GSS) to examine older couples' (aged 50 to 74 years) perceptions of their relationship during retirement or the years leading to retirement. Specifically, the analysis looks at couples' employment or retirement status, each individual's relative contribution to household income and the presence of adult children in the home as they relate to the quality of their relationship.
Release date: 2005-03-08 - 45. Linking family recomposition with children's living arrangement after parental separation ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-522-X20020016738Description:
Parental union dissolution has been on the rise in Canada for the last 30 years and the nature and intensity of the fact that children stay with their parents after the family has broken up is now an important issue. Until now, most research on this topic has been done using cross-sectional data. However, the arrangements that separating parents make concerning the physical and financial care of their children are far from static, evolving in response to a variety of changes in the lives of both biological parents, including those occurring as a result of the new conjugal unions mothers and fathers enter into.
In this paper, we first determine how custody arrangements evolve through time and then examine changes in the frequency of contact that non-resident fathers maintain with their children. In both analyses, particular attention is given to the effect that a new union in the mother's or father's life has on the level of contact that children maintain with the non-custodial parent. We also examine how this varies depending on whether or not the new partner had children from a previous union, and on whether the mother's or father's new union is fertile. Prospective data from the two first waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) will enable us to compare levels of contact both before and after family recomposition.
Analyses are conducted using multinomial logit and probit models, and ordered logit and probit models according to the nature of the dependent variables. The observation of some of our dependent variables (e.g., the levels of contact between non-residing fathers and their child) is dependent on a selection process (e.g., that a father not residing with his child at Time 1 does not reside with the child at Time 2). In such cases, analyses are conducted using ordered probit models with selectivity. In all analyses, standard errors are adjusted to account for the sample design.
Release date: 2004-09-13 - 46. Mixed unions ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-008-X20040016882Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article examines the prevalence of culturally mixed marriages and common-law relationships in Canada, using data from the 2001 and 1991 Censuses of Population.
Release date: 2004-06-08 - 47. Would you live common-law? ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-008-X20030026620Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article examines the extent to which never-married and previously married people who have never lived common-law in the past would be willing to do so in the future.
Release date: 2003-09-09 - Articles and reports: 11-008-X20030026634Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article compares the demographic, social and economic situation of couples who are far apart, and those who are close together, in age.
Release date: 2003-09-09 - 49. Transitions to Union Formation ArchivedArticles and reports: 89-584-M2003002Geography: CanadaDescription:
This study explores how the recent transition to a conjugal union affects time use, the division of labour, perceptions of time and well-being differently for women and men.
Release date: 2003-07-21 - 50. Couples living apart ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-008-X20030016552Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article looks at 'living apart together' (LAT) relationships where unmarried couples who live in separate residences maintain an intimate relationship.
Release date: 2003-06-10
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00012021002Description: This fact sheet provides a concise description of the context and definitions related to a new concept, the gender diversity status of couples. Data and analysis on gender diversity status of couples will be available in the July 13, 2022 census release as part of the theme of families, households and marital status.Release date: 2022-06-14
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 92-380-XDescription:
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.
Release date: 2003-10-28 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3232Description: This is an administrative survey that collects demographic information annually from all provincial and territorial vital statistics registries on all marriages in Canada.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3901Description: The census provides a detailed statistical portrait of Canada and its people by their demographic, social and economic characteristics. This information is important for communities and is vital for planning services such as child care, schooling, family services, and skills training for employment.
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