Table 1.

Demographic Characteristics by Region.

	Urban			Suburban			Northern Urban			Rural			Total
	%	SE	n	%	SE	n	%	SE	n	%	SE	n	%	SE	n
Lives in one home	88.95	3.07	335	86.58	3.84	286	79.69	3.57	265	80.01	2.02	262	83.92	1.74	1148
Two-parent household	79.49	2.91	301	84.17	4.12	283	72.37	4.73	239	80.54	3.61	261	78.83	2.06	1084
Child born in Canada	72.37	4.65	260	90.73	3.53	296	93.32	0.90	291	96.77	1.25	309	87.54	1.49	1156
1+ parent born in Canada	28.35	9.84	90	69.30	6.70	234	96.71	1.27	304	96.60	0.60	306	71.23	3.40	934
Mother / Parent 1 postsecondary	75.36	3.52	199	84.48	1.86	195	80.95	3.12	183	68.49	2.69	143	77.68	1.61	720
Father / Parent 2 postsecondary	78.00	3.37	187	82.09	1.36	178	75.54	4.40	155	62.05	4.20	126	74.90	1.96	646
Ethnic backgrounda
White / European	22.31	–	83	61.42	–	207	72.09	–	235	78.46	–	255	57.35	–	780
South Asian	22.85	–	85	3.56	–	12	0.31	–	1	0.00	–	0	7.21	–	98
Chinese	16.67	–	62	1.19	–	4	0.00	–	0	0.31	–	1	4.93	–	67
Black / Caribbean	10.22	–	38	7.72	–	26	1.23	–	4	0.62	–	2	5.15	–	70
Aboriginal	0.00	–	0	0.59	–	2	6.13	–	20	0.62	–	2	1.76	–	24
Other / multiple	24.73	–	92	19.29	–	65	9.82	–	32	4.62	–	15	15.00	–	204
Don’t know / missing	3.23	–	12	6.23	–	21	10.43	–	34	15.38	–	50	8.60	–	117

Note. Estimated percentages are adjusted for design characteristics. Unadjusted n’s are also shown. Sample size for the urban, northern, suburban and rural regions were 372, 326, 337, and 325, respectively.

^a Sample raw percents are shown for ethnicity categories, as estimates adjusted for design characteristics were unreliable for most categories.