1. Includes legally married, common-law and same-sex spouses. Excludes people who refused to state their marital status.
2. Includes those separated from a legal marriage, common-law or same-sex relationship as well as divorced spouses. Only those in contact with a former spouse or common-law partner in the past 5 years were included in this analysis. Notes: Responses "Don't know" and "Not stated" are not listed, therefore, the sum of percentages may not add up to 100%. Excludes data from Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut.
Sources: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 1999, 2004 and 2009.