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Appendix table 12. Reconstituted families by family composition and number of children on December 31, 2017

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	51 315	23 196	3 213	2 072	19 587	2 303	944
	1	17 659	15 201	2 458	-	-	-	-
	2	17 946	6 494	669	844	8 905	1 034	-
	3	10 622	1 254	75	736	7 342	873	342
	4	3 649	198	9	344	2 484	294	320
	5	1 047	35	-	113	647	75	177
	6-	392	14	2	35	209	27	105
Married couple	Total	24 690	8 814	1 256	768	11 821	1 439	592
	1	6 885	5 897	988	–	-	-	-
	2	8 350	2 388	243	326	4 837	556	-
	3	6 126	438	22	280	4 601	584	201
	4	2 352	71	3	115	1 758	211	194
	5	697	16	-	36	463	63	119
	6-	280	4	-	11	162	25	78
Co- habiting couple	Total	26 625	14 382	1 957	1 304	7 766	864	352
	1	10 774	9 304	1 470	-	-	-	-
	2	9 596	4 106	426	518	4 068	478	-
	3	4 496	816	53	456	2 741	289	141
	4	1 297	127	6	229	726	83	126
	5	350	19	-	77	184	12	58
	6-	112	10	2	24	47	2	27

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 5.12.2018