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Facts and figures 2008 – Immigration overview:
Permanent and temporary residents

Number
Marital status	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Single	22,729	28,647	31,920	29,684	27,491	29,889	33,041	32,685	29,886	29,834
Married, common-law partner	47,077	55,710	60,657	55,064	53,710	56,708	63,451	61,043	57,694	61,330
Separated, divorced, widowed	1,469	1,722	1,879	1,672	1,526	1,587	1,605	1,671	1,558	1,386
Marital status not stated	13	80	55	31	13	7	3	26	5	4
Males	71,288	86,159	94,511	86,451	82,740	88,191	98,100	95,425	89,143	92,554
Single	16,318	19,386	21,377	20,240	19,114	21,399	24,390	24,058	22,874	25,168
Married, common-law partner	54,550	64,553	70,675	65,084	66,476	69,816	76,792	74,666	70,930	73,618
Separated, divorced, widowed	5,210	6,098	6,747	6,290	6,372	5,489	5,360	6,147	5,527	5,598
Marital status not stated	12	77	39	20	11	9	4	27	6	2
Females	76,090	90,114	98,838	91,634	91,973	96,713	106,546	104,898	99,337	104,386
Single	39,047	48,033	53,297	49,924	46,605	51,288	57,431	56,743	52,760	55,002
Married, common-law partner	101,627	120,263	131,332	120,148	120,186	126,524	140,243	135,709	128,624	134,948
Separated, divorced, widowed	6,679	7,820	8,626	7,962	7,898	7,076	6,965	7,818	7,085	6,984
Marital status not stated	25	157	94	51	24	16	7	53	11	6
Gender not stated	12	3	1	1	1	3	1	0	0	0
Total	147,390	176,276	193,350	178,086	174,714	184,907	204,647	200,323	188,480	196,940

Percentage distribution
Marital status	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Single	31.9	33.2	33.8	34.3	33.2	33.9	33.7	34.3	33.5	32.2
Married, common-law partner	66.0	64.7	64.2	63.7	64.9	64.3	64.7	64.0	64.7	66.3
Separated, divorced, widowed	2.1	2.0	2.0	1.9	1.8	1.8	1.6	1.8	1.7	1.5
Marital status not stated	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Single	21.4	21.5	21.6	22.1	20.8	22.1	22.9	22.9	23.0	24.1
Married, common-law partner	71.7	71.6	71.5	71.0	72.3	72.2	72.1	71.2	71.4	70.5
Separated, divorced, widowed	6.8	6.8	6.8	6.9	6.9	5.7	5.0	5.9	5.6	5.4
Marital status not stated	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Single	26.5	27.2	27.6	28.0	26.7	27.7	28.1	28.3	28.0	27.9
Married, common-law partner	69.0	68.2	67.9	67.5	68.8	68.4	68.5	67.7	68.2	68.5
Separated, divorced, widowed	4.5	4.4	4.5	4.5	4.5	3.8	3.4	3.9	3.8	3.5
Marital status not stated	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Gender not stated	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0