The table illustrates the percentage of Canadians in households by a variety of families type between 1984 and 2020.
Overall, the figure for a single person, single parents and households with no children exhibited upward trends over the years, whereas the number of those whose families with kids in Canada showed a decline.
At first, the percentage of a single person was only 6% in 1984, and the number increased steadily to 12% after the year 2020, doubling from the beginning of the time. Additionally, DINK families in which households are two incomes and no children were less than one-fifth, with 19% in 1984; however, it increased by 6% in 2014, and levelled out at the end of the time, with one-fourth of Canadian households proportion. It is witnessed that the figure for lone parents was only 4% before it experienced a threefold rise to 12% in 2014 and remained the same until 2020.