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Family type and family employment status | Median earnings | Change | ||||
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1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 1980 to 2005 | 2000 to 2005 | |
2005 constant dollars | percentage | |||||
Note: 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 |