Table 1 Descriptive statistics of weighted sample, by sex, household population aged 40 or older in 1994/1995, Canada excluding territories

Table 1
Descriptive statistics of weighted sample, by sex, household population aged 40 or older in 1994/1995, Canada excluding territories Table summary
This table displays the results of descriptive statistics of weighted sample men (n=3,341), women (n=4,143) and p-value chi-square test (men versus women), calculated using % units of measure (appearing as column headers).
	%		p-value Chi-square test (men versus women)
	Men (n=3,341)	Women (n=4,143)	p-value Chi-square test (men versus women)
Institutionalized during follow-up (1996/1997 to 2010/2011)	3.5	6.8Note *
Died during follow-up (1996/1997 to 2010/2011)	29.8	25.0Note *
Age distribution (1994/1995)
40 to 49	39.0	33.7Note *	<0.001
50 to 59	25.5	24.7
60 to 69	19.4	20.3
70 to 79	11.9	15.8Note *
80 or older	4.2	5.5Note *
Smoking status distribution (1994/1995)
Current daily smoker	26.7	19.8Note *
Former daily smoker	49.6	29.6Note *
Years since quitting daily smoking
4 or fewer	7.8	4.6Note *	<0.001
5 to 9	7.7	5.0Note *
10 to 19	16.6	8.8Note *
20 or more	17.5	11.2Note *
Never smoked daily	23.7	50.5Note *
Percentage distribution of number of two-year changes in smoking status (1996/1997 to 2010/2011)
0	80.6	86.1Note *	<0.001
1	10.8	8.7Note *
2	5.1	2.7Note *
3 or more	3.5	2.5
Percentage with at least one two-year change in smoking st (1996/1997 to 2010/2011), by smoking status in 1994/1995
Total	19.4	13.9Note *
Smoking status 1994/1995
Current daily smoker	55.7	56.8
Former daily smoker
Years since quit daily smoking
4 or fewer	25.5	32.1
5 to 9	13.5^{Note E: Use with caution}	6.1^{Note E: Use with caution}
10 to 19	5.0^{Note E: Use with caution}	4.1^{Note E: Use with caution}
20 or more	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published
Never smoked daily	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published
^E use with caution F too unreliable to be published * significantly different from men (p<0.05) Source: 1994/1995 to 2010/2011 National Population Health Survey, longitudinal sample (square).