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Families and Households Highlight Tables, 2011 Census

Census family structure including intact families and stepfamilies for couple families with children in private households, 2011 counts, all couples, for Canada, provinces and territories

Data table

Table Summary

This table presents census family structure including intact families and stepfamilies for couple families in private households by conjugal status of the couple. The column headings are: geographic name and census family structure including intact families and stepfamilies for couples with children. The census family structure including intact families and stepfamilies for couples with children is divided into total couples with children, intact families, total stepfamilies, simple stepfamilies and complex stepfamilies. The rows are: geographic names along with their corresponding values.

Census family structure including intact families and stepfamilies for couple families with children in private households, 2011 counts, all couples, for Canada, provinces and territories
Geographic name	Census family structure including intact families and stepfamilies ¹ for couples with children ²
Geographic name	Total - Couples with children ²	Intact families ³	Total - stepfamilies	Simple stepfamilies	Complex stepfamilies

Canada !	3,684,675	3,220,335	464,335	271,925	192,410
Newfoundland and Labrador	55,575	49,060	6,510	3,790	2,725
Prince Edward Island	15,280	13,180	2,100	1,120	980
Nova Scotia	90,545	77,395	13,150	7,815	5,335
New Brunswick	76,375	65,170	11,205	6,665	4,540
Quebec !	824,865	692,310	132,560	79,375	53,180
Ontario !	1,482,220	1,318,900	163,320	95,590	67,730
Manitoba !	130,795	114,985	15,805	8,480	7,330
Saskatchewan !	107,980	93,375	14,610	7,545	7,060
Alberta !	423,720	372,930	50,780	28,945	21,840
British Columbia !	464,800	412,285	52,510	31,695	20,820
Yukon !	3,385	2,850	535	305	235
Northwest Territories !	4,950	4,195	755	385	365
Nunavut !	4,205	3,700	500	220	285
Note(s): Footnote 1 A census family refers to a married couple (with or without children of either and/or both spouses), a common-law couple (with or without children of either and/or both partners) or a lone parent of any marital status, with at least one child. A couple may be of opposite sex or same sex. A couple family with children may be further classified as either an intact family in which all children are the biological and/or adopted children of both married spouse or of both common-law partners or a stepfamily with at least one biological or adopted child of only one married spouse or common-law partner and whose birth or adoption preceded the current relationship. A simple stepfamily is a couple family in which all children are biological or adopted children of one, and only one, married spouse or common-law partner whose birth or adoption preceded the current relationship. A complex stepfamily consists of any of the following: • family in which there is at least one child of both parents and at least one child of only one parent • family in which there is at least one child of each parent • family in which there is at least one child of both parents and at least one child of each parent. Return to footnote 1 referrer Footnote 2 Refers to couples with at least one child aged 24 and under. Return to footnote 2 referrer Footnote 3 Includes couple families with children aged 24 and under for whom it cannot be determined if there are stepchildren present. Return to footnote 3 referrer