Description for chart 3
Number of stay-at-home mothers and fathers with at least one child under 16, 1976 to 2014

The title of the graph is "Chart 3 Number of stay-at-home mothers and fathers with at least one child under 16, 1976 to 2014."
This is a line chart.
There are in total 39 categories in the horizontal axis. The primary vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 1,600 with ticks every 200 points. The secondary vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 70 with ticks every 10 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The units of the horizontal axis are years from 1976 to 2014.
The title of series 1 is "Stay-at-home mothers."
The vertical axis is "Stay-at-home mothers (thousands)."
The minimum value is 426.3 occurring in 2013.
The maximum value is 1,465.7 occurring in 1976.
The title of series 2 is "Stay-at-home fathers."
The vertical axis is "Stay-at-home fathers (thousands)."
The minimum value is 20.6 occurring in 1976.
The maximum value is 60 occurring in 2011.

Data Table for Chart 3
  Stay-at-home mothers Stay-at-home fathers
  (thousands) (thousands)
1976 1,465.7 20.6
1977 1,423.2 22.6
1978 1,336.4 22.5
1979 1,307.2 22.6
1980 1,235.3 24.8
1981 1,134.8 25.1
1982 1,059.8 30.9
1983 993.5 32.1
1984 945.1 28.7
1985 892.8 31.4
1986 826.8 31.3
1987 784.5 33.1
1988 734.0 34.6
1989 704.5 35.9
1990 672.3 40.4
1991 614.3 43.5
1992 602.9 44.6
1993 585.5 45.7
1994 579.2 41.3
1995 574.9 43.4
1996 577.9 43.5
1997 557.4 38.9
1998 543.4 44.2
1999 535.5 41.6
2000 539.9 47.7
2001 513.0 51.5
2002 480.4 52.2
2003 461.9 51.0
2004 465.3 50.1
2005 468.5 48.7
2006 467.7 52.9
2007 438.0 55.3
2008 467.1 53.4
2009 436.8 55.8
2010 433.1 53.0
2011 439.1 60.0
2012 432.9 55.4
2013 426.3 54.2
2014 445.7 53.8
Source:
Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, 1976 to 2014.
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