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Income Status Before Tax and Income Status After Tax (8) and Economic Family Status and Age Groups (80) for the Persons in Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2005 - 20% Sample Data
About this variable: Economic family status and age groups (80)
Definition
No definition is available for this variable.
Values
- Total - All persons in private households Footnote 1
- Under 6 years
- 6 to 14 years
- 15 to 24 years
- 25 to 34 years
- 35 to 44 years
- 45 to 54 years
- 55 to 64 years
- 65 years and over
- Total - Males
- Under 6 years
- 6 to 14 years
- 15 to 24 years
- 25 to 34 years
- 35 to 44 years
- 45 to 54 years
- 55 to 64 years
- 65 years and over
- Total - Females
- Under 6 years
- 6 to 14 years
- 15 to 24 years
- 25 to 34 years
- 35 to 44 years
- 45 to 54 years
- 55 to 64 years
- 65 years and over
- Total - All family members Footnote 28
- Couple family members Footnote 29
- Husbands, male common-law partners or reference persons
- 15 to 24 years
- 25 to 44 years
- 45 to 64 years
- 65 years and over
- Spouses or common-law partners
- 15 to 24 years
- 25 to 44 years
- 45 to 64 years
- 65 years and over
- Children under 6 years
- Children 6 to 17 years
- Children 18 years and over
- Other couple family members
- Male lone-parent family members Footnote 44
- Male lone parents
- 15 to 24 years
- 25 to 44 years
- 45 to 64 years
- 65 years and over
- Children under 6 years
- Children 6 to 17 years
- Children 18 years and over
- Other male lone-parent family members
- Female lone-parent family members Footnote 54
- Female lone parents
- 15 to 24 years
- 25 to 44 years
- 45 to 64 years
- 65 years and over
- Children less than 6 years
- Children 6 to 17 years
- Children 18 years and over
- Other female lone-parent family members
- All other economic family type members Footnote 64
- Under 15 years
- 15 to 24 years
- 25 to 44 years
- 45 to 64 years
- 65 years and over
- Total - Persons 15 years and over not in families
- Males 15 years and over
- 15 to 24 years
- 25 to 44 years
- 45 to 64 years
- 65 years and over
- Females 15 years of age and over
- 15 to 24 years
- 25 to 44 years
- 45 to 64 years
- 65 years and over
Footnotes
- Footnote 1
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Economic family status - Refers to the classification of the population according to whether or not the persons are members of an economic family.
Economic family persons refer to two or more household members who are related to each other by blood, marriage, common-law or adoption, and thereby constitute an economic family. They can be further classified as follows:
Economic family reference persons - In each economic family, one person is designated as the reference person. For purposes of presentation of historically comparable low-income statistics, the following designations have been made. The male spouse or partner is designated as the reference person in opposite-sex couple families. In lone-parent families, the male or female lone parent is the reference person. In same-sex couple families, the first person in the couple listed on the questionnaire is the economic family reference person. In all other economic families, the reference person can be either a male or female person not in a census family.
Economic family members - Persons other than the reference person (as described above) who belong to the same economic family are classified as female spouses or partners, male or female same-sex spouses or partners, never-married sons or daughters, other sons or daughters or other economic family members. For 2006, other economic family members include foster children. They were previously classified as persons not in economic families.
Persons not in economic families - Household members who do not belong to an economic family. Persons living alone are included in this category.Economic family - Refers to a group of two or more persons who live in the same dwelling and are related to each other by blood, marriage, common-law or adoption.
The economic family concept requires only that family members be related by blood, marriage, common-law or adoption. By contrast, the census family concept requires that family members be either a male or female spouse, a male or female common-law partner, a male or female lone parent, or a child with a parent present. The concept of economic family may therefore refer to a larger group of persons than does the census family concept. For example, a widowed mother living with her married son and daughter-in-law would be treated as a non-family person under the definition of a census family. That same person would, however, be counted as a member of an economic family along with her son and daughter-in-law. Two or more related census families living together also constitute one economic family as, for example, a man and his wife living with their married son and daughter-in-law. Two or more brothers or sisters living together, apart from their parents, will form an economic family, but not a census family, since they do not meet the requirements for the latter. All census family persons are economic family persons. For 2006, foster children are considered economic family members.
The economic family and its associated classifications and variables are derived according to the responses to the questions on sex, date of birth, marital status, common law status, and relationship to Person 1. In addition, consideration is given to the order in which household members are listed on the questionnaire.
As of 1971, published family statistics included families living in private households (including those enumerated outside Canada) and all collective households.
Prior to 2001, economic families were defined in Hutterite collective households as well.
For 2006, married spouses may be of opposite or same sex. - Footnote 28
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Economic family - Refers to a group of two or more persons who live in the same dwelling and are related to each other by blood, marriage, common-law or adoption.
The economic family concept requires only that family members be related by blood, marriage, common-law or adoption. By contrast, the census family concept requires that family members be either a male or female spouse, a male or female common-law partner, a male or female lone parent, or a child with a parent present. The concept of economic family may therefore refer to a larger group of persons than does the census family concept. For example, a widowed mother living with her married son and daughter-in-law would be treated as a non-family person under the definition of a census family. That same person would, however, be counted as a member of an economic family along with her son and daughter-in-law. Two or more related census families living together also constitute one economic family as, for example, a man and his wife living with their married son and daughter-in-law. Two or more brothers or sisters living together, apart from their parents, will form an economic family, but not a census family, since they do not meet the requirements for the latter. All census family persons are economic family persons. For 2006, foster children are considered economic family members.
The economic family and its associated classifications and variables are derived according to the responses to the questions on sex, date of birth, marital status, common law status, and relationship to Person 1. In addition, consideration is given to the order in which household members are listed on the questionnaire.
As of 1971, published family statistics included families living in private households (including those enumerated outside Canada) and all collective households.
Prior to 2001, economic families were defined in Hutterite collective households as well.
For 2006, married spouses may be of opposite or same sex. - Footnote 29
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Couple economic families refer to those husband-wife, opposite-sex common-law couple families and same-sex married and common-law couple families in which the economic family reference person is one of the spouses or partners.
- Footnote 44
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Lone-parent families are those in which either a male or female lone parent is the economic family reference person.
- Footnote 54
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Lone-parent families are those in which either a male or female lone parent is the economic family reference person.
- Footnote 64
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All other economic families are those in which the economic family reference person is a person not in a census family.