Focus on Geography Series, 2016 Census

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Wood Buffalo, Specialized municipality (CSD) - Alberta

Data quality

Data quality note(s): Wood Buffalo, Specialized municipality (CSD) - Alberta

  • Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 14.4%.
  • In 2016, 10.4% of adults aged 15 and over living in private dwellings lived alone, 52.8% lived in a couple and 4.6% lived as a lone parent.
  • 79.6% of persons living in a couple were married in 2016, while 20.4% were living common law.
  • In 2016, the proportion of young adults aged 20 to 34 living with at least one parent was 21.1% compared to 15.9% in 2011.
  • In 2016, there were 65 same-sex couples.
  • In 2016, among couple census families 41.2% were families without children and 58.8% were families with children.

Figure 1.1

Figure 1.1 description Long description for Figure 1.1 Percentage of children aged 0 to 14 by family type, Wood Buffalo, 2006 to 2016

Figure 1.2

Figure 1.2 description Long description for Figure 1.2 Percentage of persons living in couples according to selected age groups, Wood Buffalo, 2006 to 2016

Figure 1.3 description Long description for Figure 1.3 Percentage of common-law couples by province and territory, 2011 and 2016

Proportion of households by household type, Wood Buffalo, 2006 to 2016

Wood Buffalo – Proportion of households by household type, 2001 to 2016
Household type 2006 (%) 2011 (%) 2016 (%)
Total households 100 100 100
One-census-family households without additional persons 63.6 59.2 52.7
A couple census family without children 23.0 22.3 18.4
A couple census family with children 35.2 31.7 28.7
A lone-parent census family 5.4 5.1 5.6
Multigenerational households 3.0 2.8 3.4
Other census-family households 8.9 11.2 9.4
Non-census-family households of two or more persons 7.6 9.4 11.3
One-person households 16.9 17.4 23.2

Marital status, Wood Buffalo, 2016

In Wood Buffalo, 59.3% of the total population aged 15 and over were either married (48.6%) or living with a common-law partner (10.7%).

The remaining 40.7% were not married and not living with a common-law partner, including those who were single (never-married), separated, divorced or widowed.

Note: Percentages may not total 100 percent due to random rounding.

Figure 1.4 description #linktitletext# 1.4 Marital status, Wood Buffalo, 2016 census

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incompletely enumerated Indian reserve or Indian settlement
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revised
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use with caution

Source:

Statistics Canada. 2017. Focus on Geography Series, 2016 Census. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-404-X2016001. Ottawa, Ontario. Data products, 2016 Census.

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