Table 1
Distribution of people who intend to marry or remarry by de facto marital status and region of residence, Canada, 2011

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Table 1
Distribution of people who intend to marry or remarry by de facto marital status and region of residence, Canada, 2011
Table summary
 This table displays the results of distribution of people who intend to marry or remarry by de facto marital status and region of residence. The information is grouped by intentions (appearing as row headers), marriage intentions (persons never married), remarriage intentions (persons who have already been married), total intentions and single, calculated using single, living common-law, total, divorced, widowed, percentage and number (in thousands) units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Intentions Marriage intentions
(persons never married)		 Remarriage intentions
(persons who have already been married)		 Total intentions
Single Living common-law Total Living common-law Divorced Widowed Total
  percentage
Canada  
Yes 62 39 56 24 10 2Note E: Use with caution 10 44
No 20 38 24 50 66 89 71 37
Uncertain 17 22 18 25 23 8 18 18
  Number (in thousands)
Total 7,350 2,323 9,673 820 1,251 1,379 3,450 13,123
  percentage
Atlantic  
Yes 62 56 61 34Note E: Use with caution 10Note E: Use with caution X 10 46
No 22 25 23 36 68 89 71 37
Uncertain 15 17 16 32Note E: Use with caution 22 10 18 16
  Number (in thousands)
Total 452 142 594 47 78 115 240 834
  percentage
Quebec  
Yes 44 30 38 14Note E: Use with caution 6Note E: Use with caution X 7 30
No 33 46 39 66 74 91 77 48
Uncertain 22 24 23 19Note E: Use with caution 19 7Note E: Use with caution 15 21
  Number (in thousands)
Total 1,668 1,242 2,910 317 359 315 991 3,901
  percentage
Ontario  
Yes 69 44 65 27 11Note E: Use with caution 1Note E: Use with caution 10 51
No 16 30 18 43 61 88 70 31
Uncertain 14 23 16 29 26 8 18 16
  Number (in thousands)
Total 2,978 458 3,436 249 418 554 1,221 4,657
  percentage
Prairies  
Yes 67 53 64 31 13 2Note E: Use with caution 13 51
No 16 26 17 38 64 85 66 30
Uncertain 17 20 17 27 22 11 19 18
  Number (in thousands)
Total 1,228 273 1,501 121 206 203 529 2,031
  percentage
British-Columbia  
Yes 64 51 62 34Note E: Use with caution 11Note E: Use with caution X 11Note E: Use with caution 48
No 16 34 19 38Note E: Use with caution 62 90 69 33
Uncertain 19 14Note E: Use with caution 18 26Note E: Use with caution 26 9Note E: Use with caution 19 19
  Number (in thousands)
Total 1,024 208 1,231 86 190 192 469 1,700
E use with caution.
F too unreliable to be published.
X suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.
Note: Percentages may not add to 100%. Totals include the "don't know" and "refused" categories, which are not shown in the table.
Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2011.
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