Previous standard - economic family

Status

This standard was replaced by a new departmental standard on October 22, 2007.

Economic family structure

Definition

Economic family structure refers to the classification of economic families according to the family situation of the reference person. That is, whether the reference person is a member of a couple family, a lone-parent family or whether the reference person is not a member of either.

A couple family is one in which either of the two spouses, of either a now-married or common-law couple, is the economic family reference person.

For the purposes of this definition, a lone-parent family is which one in either the male or female lone-parent is the economic family reference person.

An other economic family is one in which the economic family reference person is neither a member of a couple family nor a lone-parent family.

Detailed classification:

* Couple families without relatives present contain only one husband-wife family.

** Couple families with relatives present may contain more than one census family , of which the additional families may be either (or both) couple families or lone-parent families. They may or may not also contain related non-census family persons.

*** Lone-parent families without relatives present contain only one lone-parent family.

**** Lone-parent families with relatives present may contain more than one census-family, of which the additional families may be either (or both) couple families or lone-parent families. They may or may not also contain related non-census family persons.

Collapsed classification: