Table 4
Distribution (number and percentage) of couple families with children by stepfamily status, Canada, 2011

Table 4
 Distribution (number and percentage) of couple families with children by stepfamily status, Canada, 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of  distribution (number and percentage) of couple families with children by stepfamily status. The information is grouped by couple family with children (appearing as row headers), number and percentage (appearing as column headers).

Couple family with childrenNote 1	Number	Percentage
Notes: 1. Refers to couples with at least one child aged 24 and under. 2. Couple families with at least one child aged 24 and under for whom it cannot be determined if there are stepchildren present are considered intact families. Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2011.
All couple families with children	3,684,675	100.0
Intact familiesNote 2	3,220,340	87.4
Stepfamilies	464,335	12.6
Simple stepfamilies	271,930	7.4
Complex stepfamilies	192,410	5.2
Families with child(ren) of both parents and child(ren) of one parent only	149,365	4.1
Families with child(ren) of each parent only and no children of both parents	35,765	1.0
Families with child(ren) of both parents and child(ren) of each parent only	7,275	0.2