Table 14
Assets, debts and net worth, by family type, 2009

Table 14
Assets, debts and net worth, by family type, 2009
 Table summary
 This table displays the results of Assets, debts and net worth, by family type. The information is grouped by Family type appearing as row headers and is grouped by Total assets, Toal debts, Net worth, Average, Median appearing as column headers, calculated using dollars as a unit of measure.
Family type1 Total assets Total debts Net worth
Average Median Average Median Average Median
dollars
Couple families
Married couples† 658,600 400,000 61,300 6,000 597,000 325,000
Two-parent families with children2 567,000 357,000* 130,200* 85,000* 442,300* 217,000*
Other families 561,000 260,000* 68,000 10,000* 497,600 165,000*
Lone-parent families
Female lone-parent† 187,000 60,000 67,800 14,000 119,100 17,000
Male lone-parent 281,800* 200,000* 128,800* 55,000* 134,600* 80,000*
Unattached individuals
Under 65
Women† 265,100 100,000 35,000 3,500 226,000 55,000
Men 387,200 125,000* 50,600* 6,000* 335,000 70,000*
65 years of age and older
Women† 249,000 75,500 4,900 0 246,000 75,000
Men 415,900* 219,000* 9,700* 0 412,600* 215,000*
1. Includes senior families.
2. Includes single children under 25 living in the home.
* indicates significant difference from the reference group
† reference group
Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Financial Capability, 2009.
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