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| What percentage of Canadians are married? |
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| Which two provinces or territories have the highest rate of cohabitation (common law couples)? |
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| Nunavut and Quebec (about 33% each) |
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| What is a lone-parent family? What percentage of families are lone-parent? What percentage of lone parent families are women? |
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One parent carrying al parental obligations.
Just over 16%
About 80% |
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| What is a 'Simple Stepfamily' versus a 'Complex Stepfamily'? |
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| A simple stepfamily includes the child(ren) of only one parent, where a complex stepfamilies describes all others stepfamilies (Child(ren) from both parents are brought in and/or new couple has additional children) |
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| What percentage of children live in foster care and in skip-generation families? |
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| Are more adult children living at home, compared to in 1981? |
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| Yes, it has gone up from 31% in 1981 to 42% in 2011 |
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| Define a mixed-marriage? About how many couples are in them in Canada? |
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It is a marriage between a couple who belong to different ethnicities.
About 4% |
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| What ethnicity is most likely to be in a mixed marriage? |
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| What percentage of couples are same-sex? |
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| What percentage of 65 year olds still live at home? Who is more likely to live at home alone, men or women? |
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92%
Women, are twice as likely, partially because women outlive men |
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| What has the trend been for Canadians living in rural versus urban communities? |
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| The percentage of people living in the cities has gone up from 16% in 1861 to 81% in 2011 |
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| What has changed about the age that people get married at? What age is the average for men and for women? |
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People are generally getting married later.
31 for men and 29 for women |
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| What can you say about the divorce rate in Canada since the 1990s? |
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| The rate has remained relatively stable, at about 40% before a couple's 30th anniversary. |
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| What can you say about the fertility rate in Canada? What was it in 2011? |
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The fertility rate has slowly declined over the years.
1.5 babies per couple |
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| What 3 things can be said about Canada's average population age? |
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1. The population is aging
2. Within a decade there will be more seniors than children under 15
3. Families are increasingly being made up of 4-5 generations. |
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| What are the 4 panes to the Johari Window? |
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Definition
1. Open
2. Blind
3. Hidden
4. Unknown/Unconscious |
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| Describe the OPEN portion of the Johari Window? |
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Definition
| Open is know to you and know to others. Goal is to increase the size of this window with disclosure and feedback |
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| Describe the BLIND portion of the Johari Window? |
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| Blind is what is know to others, but not know to you. Goal is reduce blind area with feedback from others |
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| Describe the HIDDEN portion of the Johari Window? |
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| Hidden is what is know to self but not know to others. It may contain things that no one else will/should ever know. The goal is to decrease this window with disclosure. |
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| Describe the UNKNOWN portion of the Johari Window? |
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| Unknown/Unconscious is what is not know to you, or know to others. A lot of what we do stems from the unconscious. |
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