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Age Groups of Primary Household Maintainer (8), Structural Type of Dwelling (10), Sex of Primary Household Maintainer (3) 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: Sex of primary household maintainer (3)

Definition

No definition is available for this variable.

Values

  1. Total - Sex of primary household maintainer Footnote 1
  2. Male
  3. Female

Footnotes

Footnote 1

Sex
Part A - Plain language definition
Not applicable
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the gender of the respondent.

Primary household maintainer
Part A - Plain language definition
First person in the household identified as the one who pays the rent or the mortgage, or the taxes, or the electricity bill, and so on, for the dwelling.
Part B - Detailed definition
The first person in the household identified as being the household maintainer.

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