Table 4
Median age (years) by selected family status characteristics for women and men aged 15 and over, Canada, 2011

Table summary
This table displays the results of Median age (years) by selected family status characteristics for women and men aged 15 and over, Canada, 2011. The information is grouped by Family characteristic (appearing as row headers), Women and Men, calculated using years units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Family characteristic	Women	Men
Family characteristic	years
Married spouse	51.0	53.4
Without children at home	60.8	63.3
With at least one child at home	44.5	47.1
Common-law partner	38.4	41.0
Without children at home	41.2	43.3
With at least one child at home	37.4	40.0
Opposite-sex spouse or partner	48.8	51.2
Same-sex spouse or partner	45.6	45.0
Parent in intact family	43.5	46.1
Parent or stepparent in simple stepfamily	44.9	47.5
Parent and/or stepparent in complex stepfamily	38.4	41.1
Lone parent	46.4	49.4
Never legally married	36.0	40.7
Divorced or separated^Note 1	47.3	50.3
Widowed	72.0	70.0
Living alone	61.9	50.4
Living with relatives	61.1	41.0
Living with non-relatives only	31.6	31.8
Note 1. Includes married, spouse absent. Return to note 1 referrer Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2011.

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