Table 5
Distribution (number and percent) of women and men in couples by conjugal status and opposite/same-sex status, Canada, 2011

Table summary
This table displays the results of Distribution (number and percent) of women and men in couples by conjugal status and opposite/same-sex status, Canada, 2011. The information is grouped by Couple status (appearing as row headers), Women and Men, calculated using thousands, percent and thousands units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Couple status Women Men
thousands percent thousands percent
All couples 7,856.0 100.0 7,867.7 100.0
Same-sex 58.8 0.7 70.4 0.9
Married 19.0 0.2 23.1 0.3
Common-law 39.8 0.5 47.3 0.6
Opposite-sex 7,797.3 99.3 7,797.3 99.1
Married 6,272.9 79.8 6,272.9 79.7
Common-law 1,524.3 19.4 1,524.4 19.4
Note: There may be an overestimation of same-sex married couples in the 2011 Census. In total, there were 64,600 same-sex couples in Canada, of which 21,000 are married couples. The range of overestimation is between 0 and 4,500.
Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2011.
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