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| Only informal | Only formal | Formal and informal |
Total informal | Total formal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| percent | |||||
| Number of children ever raised and still alive | |||||
0 |
29.5 | 47.2 | 23.4 | 52.8 | 70.6 |
1 |
37.5 | 35.2 | 27.3 | 64.8 | 62.6 |
2 |
41.5 | 32.0 | 26.5 | 68.0 | 58.5 |
3 |
40.8 | 35.1 | 24.1 | 64.9 | 59.2 |
4 |
46.0 | 31.3 | 22.7 | 68.7 | 54.0 |
5 |
50.3 | 27.5 | 22.2 | 72.5 | 49.7 |
6 and more |
60.3 | 19.3 | 20.5 | 80.7 | 39.8 |
| Number of sons ever raised and still alive | |||||
0 |
35.7 | 39.5 | 24.8 | 60.5 | 64.3 |
1 |
41.8 | 32.6 | 25.6 | 67.4 | 58.2 |
2 |
46.4 | 31.4 | 22.3 | 68.7 | 53.6 |
3 |
50.9 | 28.1 | 21.1 | 71.9 | 49.1 |
4 or more |
52.4 | 22.1 | 25.5 | 77.9 | 47.6 |
| Number of daughters ever raised and still alive | |||||
0 |
35.6 | 39.0 | 25.4 | 61.0 | 64.4 |
1 |
40.7 | 33.8 | 25.5 | 66.2 | 59.3 |
2 |
47.0 | 29.5 | 23.6 | 70.6 | 53.1 |
3 |
50.4 | 28.5 | 21.2 | 71.6 | 49.6 |
4 or more |
57.1 | 22.2 | 20.8 | 77.8 | 42.9 |
| Number of siblings still alive | |||||
0 |
32.2 | 36.6 | 31.2 | 63.5 | 67.8 |
1 |
40.1 | 34.8 | 25.1 | 65.2 | 59.9 |
2 |
43.5 | 32.5 | 24.0 | 67.5 | 56.5 |
3 |
48.8 | 29.5 | 21.7 | 70.5 | 51.2 |
4 |
53.9 | 27.1 | 19.0 | 72.9 | 46.1 |
5 and more |
50.8 | 30.3 | 18.9 | 69.7 | 49.2 |
| Presence of close friends | |||||
At least one close friend |
42.1 | 33.8 | 24.0 | 66.2 | 57.9 |
No close friend |
49.9 | 27.6 | 22.5 | 72.4 | 50.1 |
| Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2002. | |||||