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Table 1
Today's young adults aged 18 to 34 differ substantially from those 30 years ago
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1971 |
1981 |
1991 |
2001 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of young adults aged 18 to 34 living in private households (thousands) | 5,398 |
7,366 |
7,447 |
6,685 |
percent |
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| Age | ||||
| 18 to 24 | 48 |
44 |
36 |
41 |
| 25 to 29 | 29 |
29 |
31 |
28 |
| 30 to 34 | 24 |
27 |
33 |
31 |
| Years in Canada since immigrating | ||||
| Canadian-born Canadian_born | 84 |
86 |
85 |
82 |
| 5 years or less | 6 |
3 |
4 |
6 |
| Over 5 years | 10 |
11 |
9 |
11 |
| Non-permanent resident | ... |
... |
2 |
1 |
| Visible minority | ... |
5 |
11 |
16 |
| Highest level of schooling | ||||
| Less than high school graduation | 33 |
31 |
24 |
18 |
| High school diploma or some postsecondary | 421 |
33 |
35 |
34 |
| Trades or college certificate or diploma | 162 |
24 |
27 |
28 |
| University degree, certificate or diploma | 9 |
12 |
14 |
20 |
| Ever-married or currently common-law union | 61 |
59 |
54 |
45 |
| Has children in same household | 44 |
39 |
35 |
29 |
| Lives in one of the 3 largest census metropolitan areas | 32 |
30 |
34 |
36 |
| Montréal | 14 |
12 |
12 |
12 |
| Toronto | 13 |
13 |
16 |
17 |
| Vancouver | 5 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
| 1. Includes people who had college certificate or diplomas other than trades or vocational programs as they were not identified in the 1971 Census. 2. Includes only apprenticeship, trades and other vocational certificates, diplomas and completions. Data source: Statistics Canada, Censuses of Population. Table source: Statistics Canada, 2007, "Delayed transitions of young adults." Canadian Social Trends, Number 84, catalogue number 11-008-XWE. |
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