2006 Census Topic-based tabulations

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Age Groups of Primary Household Maintainer (8), Number of Household Maintainers (4) and Housing Tenure (4) for Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data

About this variable: Number of household maintainers (4)

Definition

Number of household maintainers

Part A - Plain language definition
Number of persons in a household who pay the rent or mortgage, or the taxes, or the electricity bills, and so on, for the dwelling.

Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the number of persons of the same household who have been identified as household maintainers.

Values

  1. Total - Number of household maintainers
  2. 1 household maintainer
  3. 2 household maintainers
  4. 3 or more household maintainers