Canadian Community Health Survey - Annual Component (CCHS)

Gender diversity status of couple family, category

Gender diversity status refers to whether both members of a couple (married or common-law) are cisgender and of different genders or of the same gender, or whether at least one member of the couple is transgender or non-binary.

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).

The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:

• Gender diversity status