Text Table 3.14
Households that owned or leased a motor vehicle and distance travelled in an average year, by province, 2006
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Owned or leased a motor vehicle for personal use1 | Number of motor vehicles owned or leased by household members2 | Distance travelled in an average year by all motor vehicles in the household | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 or more | 20,000 kilometres or less | 20,001 to 40,000 kilometres | more than 40,000 kilometres | ||
percent | |||||||
Newfoundland and Labrador | 82 | 59 | 35 | 6 | 63 | 23 | 8 |
Prince Edward Island | 89 | 46 | 40 | 14 | 57 | 23 | 12 |
Nova Scotia | 83 | 54 | 36 | 10 | 59 | 24 | 10 |
New Brunswick | 85 | 53 | 37 | 10 | 57 | 27 | 11 |
Quebec | 81 | 57 | 36 | 8 | 56 | 27 | 12 |
Ontario | 82 | 48 | 41 | 12 | 57 | 23 | 14 |
Manitoba | 81 | 46 | 39 | 15 | 61 | 18 | 13 |
Saskatchewan | 87 | 40 | 42 | 18 | 59 | 21 | 13 |
Alberta | 87 | 41 | 42 | 18 | 54 | 25 | 14 |
British Columbia | 83 | 48 | 38 | 14 | 64 | 18 | 8 |
Canada | 83 | 49 | 39 | 12 | 58 | 23 | 12 |
Notes: | |||||||
Some respondents specified "Do not know." This proportion is not included here so the row totals may not add to 100%. | |||||||
The definition of a motor vehicle includes cars, trucks, vans, SUVs (sport utility vehicles) and street-legal motorcycles. | |||||||
1. As a percentage of all households. | |||||||
2. As a percentage of households owning or leasing at least one motor vehicle for personal use. | |||||||
Source: Statistics Canada, Households and the Environment Survey, 2006. |
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