Chart 3
Educational homogamy more common among married women than among women in a common-law union

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Census year Women Men
Married In a common-law union Married In a common-law union
percentage
1981 67 54 38 40
1991 64 51 49 49
2001 62 49 60 59
2006 64 48 67 63
Source: Statistics Canada, Censuses of Population, 1981 to 2006.