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Table 10
Median earnings, in 2005 constant dollars, of economic families by family type and family employment status, Canada, 1980 to 2005
Family type and family employment status	Median earnings				Change
	1980	1990	2000	2005	1980 to 2005	2000 to 2005
	2005 constant dollars				percentage
Note: In this table, only economic families of working age are included, that is, couple families where at least one partner is aged 15 to 64 and, similarly, lone-parent families where the parent is aged 15 to 64. Sources: Statistics Canada, censuses of population, 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2006.
Economic families¹	58,293	61,031	63,304	63,715	9.3	0.6
Couple families without children	55,991	58,575	60,504	58,869	5.1	-2.7
With at least two full-time full-year workers	79,181	81,695	84,887	86,271	9.0	1.6
With one full-time full-year worker, and at least one other worker	59,185	60,155	62,934	62,728	6.0	-0.3
With one full-time full-year worker, without other workers	47,934	47,703	46,192	47,899	-0.1	3.7
With at least one other worker	33,080	32,012	32,120	31,069	-6.1	-3.3
Couple families with children	62,991	67,852	72,936	75,997	20.6	4.2
With at least two full-time full-year workers	87,523	89,975	94,686	98,323	12.3	3.8
With one full-time full-year worker, and at least one other worker	67,636	68,790	71,816	73,483	8.6	2.3
With one full-time full-year worker, without other workers	53,371	53,763	50,636	54,005	1.2	6.7
With at least one other worker	43,532	40,588	43,116	44,653	2.6	3.6
Lone parent families	31,491	31,602	32,719	33,694	7.0	3.0
Female lone-parent families	27,590	28,381	29,174	30,598	10.9	4.9
With at least one full-time full-year worker	39,123	40,760	41,540	42,508	8.7	2.3
With at least one other worker	14,310	13,871	15,302	16,198	13.2	5.9
Male lone-parent families	52,421	48,999	47,108	47,943	-8.5	1.8
With at least one full-time full-year worker	59,273	57,325	56,124	56,452	-4.8	0.6
With at least one other worker	35,135	29,379	28,062	28,653	-18.4	2.1