Canada: age composition of full-time workers by sexual orientation

In Canada, among full-time workers between the ages of 25 and 64, non-heterosexuals, and particularly bisexuals, tend to be younger than straight people. Over the 2015-2018 period, more than seven in ten full-time workers identifying as bisexual were between the ages of 25 and 44, compared to six in ten among lesbians and gays, and just over half of heterosexuals. Conversely, only ten percent of bisexual full-time workers were over 55, compared to nearly 19 percent of heterosexuals.

Age composition of full-time workers aged 25 to 64 in Canada between 2015 and 2018, by sexual orientation

Characteristic	25 to 34 years	35 to 44 years	45 to 54 years	55 to 64 years
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October 2022

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Region

Canada

Survey time period

2015 to 2018

Age group

25-64 years

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "Sample includes people aged 25 to 64 who were employed full-time at a job or business in the week preceding the survey, with earnings from wages or self-employment over $1,000 in the previous year. Employment income data from the previous year was used in the analysis. Income amounts were averaged over the 2015-to-2018 period and adjusted to 2015 dollars and rounded to the nearest 100."

"Sexual orientation in research has been assessed on the basis of sexual behaviour, sexual attraction, or self-identity—each of these three concepts yielding slightly different prevalence estimates. In this table, estimates of sexual orientation are based on the survey question which targeted the concept of identity and provided behaviour-based definitions." Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, 2015 to 2018. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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