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Table 23
Number of persons under 18 years of age in after-tax low income families by family type and family employment status, Canada,¹ 2005
Family type and family employment status	Persons under 18 years of age
	Total	Below the after-tax low income cut-off	Below the after-tax low income cut-off
	number		percentage
Notes: After-tax low income cut-offs are calculated for the 10 provinces only and exclude reserves, barracks, etc. Persons not in economic families under 18 years of age are excluded. Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006.
Economic families²	6,693,540	865,795	12.9
Couple families with children	5,422,825	464,725	8.6
With at least two full-time full-year workers	1,776,425	43,815	2.5
With one full-time full-year worker	2,392,825	134,110	5.6
With at least one other worker	1,747,560	68,145	3.9
Without other workers	645,265	65,965	10.2
With no full-time full-year workers	1,253,570	286,795	22.9
With other workers only	1,114,755	203,360	18.2
Without workers	138,815	83,435	60.1
Lone-parent families	1,185,735	385,310	32.5
Female lone-parent families	990,520	355,645	35.9
With at least one full-time full-year worker	408,540	40,405	9.9
With no full-time full-year workers	581,980	315,240	54.2
With at least one other worker	369,785	142,775	38.6
Without workers	212,195	172,465	81.3
Male lone-parent families	195,215	29,660	15.2
With at least one full-time full-year worker	119,635	7,030	5.9
With no full-time full-year workers	75,580	22,630	29.9
With at least one other worker	57,050	11,495	20.1
Without workers	18,530	11,135	60.1