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Appendix table 12. Reconstituted families by family composition and number of children on December 31, 2018

Family type	Number of children 1)	Families' children are
		Total	Only mother's	Only father's	Mother's and father's	Mother's and common	Father's and common	Mother's, father's and common
All re- constituted families 2)	Total	50 717	23 085	3 146	2 100	19 171	2 290	925
	1	17 345	14 985	2 360	-	-	-	-
	2	17 863	6 555	678	828	8 734	1 068	-
	3	10 493	1 313	90	768	7 160	825	337
	4	3 585	187	14	342	2 448	288	306
	5	1 017	32	2	123	608	77	175
	6-	414	13	2	39	221	32	107
Married couple	Total	24 153	8 626	1 260	789	11 479	1 421	578
	1	6 660	5 692	968	-	-	-	-
	2	8 263	2 381	264	343	4 692	583	-
	3	5 995	466	25	280	4 489	543	192
	4	2 279	66	2	107	1 704	207	193
	5	664	15	1	47	429	62	110
	6-	292	6	-	12	165	26	83
Co- habiting couple	Total	26 564	14 459	1 886	1 311	7 692	869	347
	1	10 685	9 293	1 392	-	-	-	-
	2	9 600	4 174	414	485	4 042	485	-
	3	4 498	847	65	488	2 671	282	145
	4	1 306	121	12	235	744	81	113
	5	353	17	1	76	179	15	65
	6-	122	7	2	27	56	6	24

1) Number of children = number of children aged 17 or under in family.
2) Reconstituted family = a family with children where not all the children under the age of 18 are the spouses common children.

Source: Population and Justice Statistics, Statistics Finland

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Updated 31.01.2020