Dual Income Earners in a Household

Question

I have cool question from an undergraduate student this afternoon - can anyone direct me to a source that could tell me the number of dual income earners in a household before and after 1960.  The student has looked at Census - and pulling out the # of earners in a household is not as straightforward...  I'm stuck on the 1960 bit.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Answer

I looked in the 1951 Census print publications and found one table that may be relevant.  It can be found in Volume III: Housing and Families:

Table 128.  Families by size, types, numbers of members in the labour force...1951

This table provides the number of families with either 0, 1, or 2+ members in the labour force for Canada, provinces, counties and census divisions.

There are 2 similar tables for other levels of geography:

Table 129 = incorporated cities, towns, and villages of 1,000 population and over
Table 130 = Census Metropolitan Areas