2006 Census Topic-based tabulations
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Household Type (11), Structural Type of Dwelling (10) and Housing Tenure (4) for Private Households of Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data
About this variable: Household type (11)
Definition
No definition is available for this variable.
Values
- Total - Household type Footnote 1
- Family households
- One family only households Footnote 3
- Couple family households Footnote 4
- Without children
- With children
- Lone-parent family households
- Other family households Footnote 8
- Non-family households
- One person households
- Two or more person households
Footnotes
- Footnote 1
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Household type
Part A - Plain language definition
Category to which a person living alone or a group of persons occupying the same dwelling belong. There are two categories: non-family households and family households.
A non-family household consists either of one person living alone or of two or more persons who share a dwelling, but do not constitute a family.
Family households are divided into two subcategories: one-family households and multiple-family households.
A one-family household consists of a single family (e.g., a couple with or without children). A multiple-family household is made up of two or more families occupying the same dwelling.
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the basic division of private households into family and non-family households. Family household refers to a household that contains at least one census family, that is, a married couple with or without children, or a couple living common-law with or without children, or a lone parent living with one or more children (lone-parent family). One-family household refers to a single census family (with or without other persons) that occupies a private dwelling. Multiple-family household refers to a household in which two or more census families (with or without additional persons) occupy the same private dwelling.
Non-family household refers to either one person living alone in a private dwelling or to a group of two or more people who share a private dwelling, but who do not constitute a census family. - Footnote 3
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Refers to households that consist solely of one census family without additional persons. In 2001, this category was called 'One-family households' and also included census families with additional persons.
- Footnote 4
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Refers to households with opposite-sex or same-sex couples.
- Footnote 8
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Refers to one-census family households with additional persons and to multiple-census family households, with or without additional persons. In 2001, this category was called 'Multiple-family households' and did not include one-family households with additional persons.