Table 5
Women and men aged 15 years and over, by immigration status and living arrangement, Canada, 2006

Table 5
Women and men aged 15 years and over, by immigration status and living arrangement, Canada, 2006
 Table summary
 This table displays the results of women and men aged 15 years and over. The information is grouped by living arrangement appearing as row headers, women, men, recent immigrants, all immigrants, non-immigrant appearing as column headers, calculated using percentage as a unit of measure.
Living arrangement Women Men
Recent immigrants1 All immigrants Non-immigrant Recent immigrants1 All immigrants Non-immigrant
percentage
All living arrangements 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
In a couple 66.4 62.2 55.6 64.6 70.2 57.7
With married spouse 62.8 58.4 43.0 61.0 65.6 44.6
With common-law partner 3.6 3.8 12.5 3.6 4.6 13.1
Lone parents 6.6 9.6 8.4 1.3 2.2 2.3
As children 13.6 9.9 15.7 17.6 13.1 20.8
With relatives2 5.3 4.7 2.1 3.9 2.5 1.8
With non-relatives only 3.9 2.2 3.4 5.9 3.0 4.7
Alone 4.3 11.4 14.9 6.7 9.0 12.8
1. Recent immigrants are immigrants who arrived in Canada from 2001 to 2006. They are a subgroup of the immigrant category.
2. These households may also contain non-relatives. See 2006 Census Dictionary for more information on census family concepts.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2006 Census of Population.
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