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Appendix table 12. Reconstituted families by family composition and number of children on December 31, 2016

1) Family type	Number of children	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
2) All reconstituted families	Total	51 636	23 354	3 240	2 004	19 848	2 262	928
	1	18 237	15 282	2 456	499	–	–	–
	2	18 085	6 559	683	794	9 034	1 015	–
	3	10 409	1 275	86	466	7 414	851	317
	4	3 538	191	11	169	2 557	287	323
	5	991	33	3	59	630	76	190
	6-	376	14	1	17	213	33	98
Married couple	Total	24 877	8 799	1 301	733	12 069	1 396	579
	1	6 876	5 882	994	–	–	–	–
	2	8 425	2 380	269	316	4 935	525	–
	3	6 191	451	30	266	4 679	571	194
	4	2 391	66	6	103	1 823	206	187
	5	697	12	2	37	458	64	124
	6-	297	8	–	11	174	30	74
Cohabiting couple	Total	26 759	14 555	1 939	1 271	7 779	866	349
	1	11 361	9 400	1 462	499	–	–	–
	2	9 660	4 179	414	478	4 099	490	–
	3	4 218	824	56	200	2 735	280	123
	4	1 147	125	5	66	734	81	136
	5	294	21	1	22	172	12	66
	6-	79	6	1	6	39	3	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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