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Anne Milan, a sociologist with Statiastics Canada, presents a national overview of families, households and marital status data, 2011 Census. The Census was released today and has lots of interesting stuff. There are 9,389,700 “census families” consisting of married or common-law couples, or single parents in 2011, Same-sex marriage nearly tripled between 2006 and 2011 as same-sex couples grew by 42.4 per cent. Same-sex common-law couples grew 15 per cent, compared with 13.8 per cent for opposite-sex common-law couples. Common-law couples increased 13.9 per cent between 2006 and 2011, compared with 3.1 per cent for married couples over the same time period. Single fathers grew by 16.2 per cent, compared with six per cent for single mothers, as lone-parent families grew eight per cent since 2006. Single mothers still comprise 80 per cent of single-parent families. Stepfamilies, counted for the first time in 2011, comprised 12.6 per cent of Canada’s 3.7 million couples with children. Nearly 60 per cent were “simple” stepfamilies — families in which the children are the biological or adopted offspring of only one parent. The number of couples without children at home (44.5 per cent) continued to outpace those couples with kids living at home (39.2 per cent).
