The table below shows the changes in some household types in Canada from 1984 to 2020.

The table above compares data on the proportion of different types of homes in Canada between 1984 and 2020.

Overall

, couples with dependent

children

and non-dependent

children

experienced a downward trend,

while

others showed a gradual rise over the whole period. 

According to

the chart, couples with dependent

children

had the highest percentage of all households (52%) in 1984.

However

,

this

percentage gradually declined over the following years, reaching a minimum of 36% in 2020. Families with non-dependent

children

also

witnessed a downward trend, but less significantly, decreasing from 10% in 1984 to 9% in 2020,

although

there was a slight increase

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11%. 

On the other hand

, families with a lone parent began with merely 4% in 1984, rising to 12% in 2014, following a levelling off in 2020. The homes with one person constituted the second-least proportion, accounting for 6%, and reached a joint peak of 12% with lone-parent homes in 2020. Next came those with no

children

, which grew

initially

from its trough of 19% over three decades, peaking at 25% in 2014 and 2015.