Selected Statistics on Canadian Families and Family Law:
Second Edition

Table 9: Type of Support Agreement and Regularity of Payments, According to Type of Broken Union-NLSCY, Cycle 1, 1994-1995
  Type of Support Agreement and Regularity of Payments (%)
Court-ordered Private
Type of Broken Union Regular Irregular None for at Least 6 Months Total N1 Regular Irregular None for at Least 6 Months Total N1
Marriage 43.9 31.3 24.8 100 665 72.9 18.7 8.4 100 595
Common-law 41.0 14.2 44.8 100 232 53.4 22.3 24.3 100 309
All 43.0 27.0 30.0 100 897 66.3 19.9 13.8 100 904

1 N = Weighted data brought back to the original sample size.
Source: Marcil-Gratton, N. & C. Le Bourdais (1999). Custody, Access and Child Support:
Findings from The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth.