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The report, analyzing figures from the 2006 census, showed that just one in 800 married couples in Canada were same-sex couples, despite much-publicized 2005 legalization that allowed gay marriage.
The 2006 census identified same-sex married couples for the first time and found 7,465 of them, or 0.12 percent of the total of the 6.1 million married couples.
There were 45,345 same-sex couples of all kinds – including common-law partners – up 32.6 percent from the previous census in 2001.
That total represents 0.6 percent of all couples in Canada, and Statistics Canada said that was almost identical to rates in Australia and New Zealand.
Other data on the Canadian census, including the country's population of 31.6 million, had been released earlier in the year, but Statistics Canada released data on families and marriage Wednesday.
The number of married-couple families – heterosexual and homosexual – increased by only 3.5 percent in the five years between censuses to 6.1 million, while common-law couples increased 18.9 percent to 1.4 million.
"Married-couple families accounted for 68.6 percent of all census families in 2006, down from 70.5 percent five years earlier," the government statistics agency said.
"The proportion of common-law-couple families rose from 13.8 percent to 15.5 percent, while the share of lone-parent families increased slightly from 15.7 percent to 15.9 percent.
Two decades ago, families with two unmarried partners accounted for only 7.2 percent of census families, Statscan said.
The census also found that young adults were increasingly staying at home or returning home. More than four in 10 Canadians in their 20s were living at home, compared to just over three in 10 two decades earlier.
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