TASK 1 IELTS: The table below shows the changes in some household types in
Canada from 1984 to 2020. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting
the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. The table gives
information about the changing composition of household members in Canada over a time
period that goes from 1984 to 2020. Overall, in the 36-year time period the size
of households shrank considerably, because the number of houses inhabited by
one single person, lone parents or couples with no children showed an
increasing trend. On the other hand, the percentage of families with dependent
and non-dependent children (this hardly changed) witnessed a significant decrease. The percentage
of one-person households doubled in the 30-year timespan from
1984 (where they were 6%) to 2014 (12%) and then it remained constant until
2020. What is even more striking is the increase in houses with one parent, whose
number trebled from 1984 to 2014 (from 4% to 12%) and remained constant
until 2020. A slight increase in families with no children is reported in the
table with the percentage going from 19% in 1984 to 25% in 2020. Families
with both dependent and non-dependent children experienced the reverse
phenomenon. However, while the decrease in households with couples and
non-dependent children was small (from 10% to 9%), more
significant was the decrease in couples with dependent children, which went down significantly
from 52 to 36%.