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Table 2
Distribution (number and percentage) and percentage change of census families by family structure, Canada, provinces and territories, 2011
| Region | Total census families | Married couples | Common-law couples | Lone-parent families |
Percentage change for census families 2006 to 2011 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | number | percentage | number | percentage | number | percentage | ||
| Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2011. | ||||||||
| Canada | 9,389,700 | 6,293,950 | 67.0 | 1,567,910 | 16.7 | 1,527,840 | 16.3 | 5.5 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 159,385 | 114,335 | 71.7 | 20,630 | 12.9 | 24,420 | 15.3 | 2.3 |
| Prince Edward Island | 40,850 | 29,695 | 72.7 | 4,570 | 11.2 | 6,580 | 16.1 | 4.2 |
| Nova Scotia | 270,065 | 184,870 | 68.5 | 38,460 | 14.2 | 46,730 | 17.3 | 1.0 |
| New Brunswick | 224,590 | 152,460 | 67.9 | 35,945 | 16.0 | 36,185 | 16.1 | 3.1 |
| Quebec | 2,203,630 | 1,143,365 | 51.9 | 694,750 | 31.5 | 365,510 | 16.6 | 3.9 |
| Ontario | 3,612,205 | 2,612,895 | 72.3 | 394,670 | 10.9 | 604,640 | 16.7 | 5.5 |
| Manitoba | 327,875 | 232,635 | 71.0 | 39,060 | 11.9 | 56,185 | 17.1 | 4.8 |
| Saskatchewan | 285,370 | 202,765 | 71.1 | 35,785 | 12.5 | 46,820 | 16.4 | 6.7 |
| Alberta | 999,530 | 719,360 | 72.0 | 135,660 | 13.6 | 144,510 | 14.5 | 10.5 |
| British Columbia | 1,238,155 | 887,990 | 71.7 | 160,360 | 13.0 | 189,805 | 15.3 | 6.6 |
| Yukon | 9,330 | 5,080 | 54.4 | 2,340 | 25.1 | 1,915 | 20.5 | 11.9 |
| Northwest Territories | 10,930 | 5,465 | 50.0 | 3,135 | 28.7 | 2,330 | 21.3 | 0.5 |
| Nunavut | 7,780 | 3,040 | 39.1 | 2,545 | 32.7 | 2,195 | 28.2 | 10.6 |
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