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Table 1
Distribution (number and percentage) and percentage change of census families by family structure, Canada, 2001 to 2011
| Census family | 2001 | 2006 | 2011 | Percentage change 2006 to 2011 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | percentage | number | percentage | number | percentage | ||
| Sources: Statistics Canada, censuses of population, 2001 to 2011. | |||||||
| Total census families | 8,371,020 | 100.0 | 8,896,840 | 100.0 | 9,389,700 | 100.0 | 5.5 |
| Couple families | 7,059,830 | 84.3 | 7,482,775 | 84.1 | 7,861,860 | 83.7 | 5.1 |
| Married | 5,901,420 | 70.5 | 6,105,910 | 68.6 | 6,293,950 | 67.0 | 3.1 |
| Common-law | 1,158,410 | 13.8 | 1,376,865 | 15.5 | 1,567,910 | 16.7 | 13.9 |
| Lone-parent families | 1,311,190 | 15.7 | 1,414,060 | 15.9 | 1,527,840 | 16.3 | 8.0 |
| Female parents | 1,065,360 | 12.7 | 1,132,290 | 12.7 | 1,200,295 | 12.8 | 6.0 |
| Male parents | 245,825 | 2.9 | 281,775 | 3.2 | 327,545 | 3.5 | 16.2 |
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