Couple family

Status: This standard was approved as a departmental standard on September 24, 2021.

Definition

Couple family refers to a family that contains a married or common-law couple.

In economic families, a couple family is a family where the reference person has a married spouse or common-law partner in the family (regardless of whether or not the reference person also has children).

Relation to previous version

• Couple family September 24, 2021 to current

  This is the current standard.

• Couple family October 22, 2007 to September 23, 2021

  This was the departmental standard from October 22, 2007 to September 23, 2021.