Table 1
Subject characteristics at baseline, by sex, household population aged 18 to 74, Canada excluding territories

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Table summary
This table displays the results of subject characteristics at baseline. The information is grouped by selected characteristics (appearing as row headers), men (n=6,663) parental addiction in childhood, women (n=7,740) parental addiction in childhood, % and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Selected characteristics Men (n=6,663) Parental addiction in childhood Women (n=7,740) Parental addiction in childhood
No (n=5,513) Yes (n=1,150) No (n=6,099) Yes (n=1,641)
% 95% confidence interval % 95% confidence interval % 95% confidence interval % 95% confidence interval
from to from to from to from to
Physical abuse in childhood  
No 95.9 95.2 96.5 75.9Note * 72.0 79.4 90.4 89.5 91.3 65.1Note * 61.8 68.3
Yes 4.1 3.5 4.8 24.1Note * 20.6 28.0 9.6 8.7 10.5 34.9Note * 31.7 38.2
Household income  
Lowest 20% 14.7 13.4 16.1 17.4 14.7 20.5 17.9 16.7 19.2 23.4Note * 20.6 26.4
Highest 80% 75.0 73.5 76.4 73.7 70.0 77.0 71.4 69.9 72.8 68.9 65.6 71.9
Missing 10.3 9.2 11.6 9.0 6.9 11.5 10.7 9.7 11.9 7.7Note * 6.1 9.8
Marital status  
Married 54.1 52.7 55.4 61.2Note * 57.4 64.9 54.5 53.0 55.9 53.4 50.2 56.6
Not married 45.9 44.6 47.3 38.8Note * 35.1 42.6 45.5 44.1 47.0 46.6 43.4 49.8
Binge/Heavy drinking  
Yes 14.8 13.6 16.0 17.8 15.0 20.9 6.0 5.1 6.9 8.1Note * 6.6 10.0
No 85.2 84.0 86.4 82.2 79.1 85.0 94.0 93.1 94.9 91.9Note * 90.0 93.4
Smoking status  
Daily smoker 25.5 24.1 27.0 37.4Note * 33.6 41.5 21.5 20.3 22.8 37.9Note * 34.7 41.2
Not daily smoker 74.5 73.0 75.9 62.6Note * 58.5 66.4 78.5 77.2 79.7 62.1Note * 58.8 65.3
Chronic conditions  
At least one 49.3 47.7 50.8 55Note * 51.0 58.8 56.5 54.7 58.2 59.5 56.3 62.7
None 50.7 49.2 52.3 45Note * 41.2 49.0 43.5 41.8 45.3 40.5 37.3 43.7
Social support  
Low 6.5 5.7 7.3 9.1Note * 7.2 11.5 4.5 3.9 5.2 4.8 3.6 6.3
High 93.5 92.7 94.3 90.9Note * 88.5 92.8 95.5 94.8 96.1 95.2 93.7 96.4
Note *

significantly different from same sex with no parental addiction in childhood (p < 0.05)

Note: Baseline is defined as first cycle with no missing information on distress or covariates.
Source: 1994/1995 to 2010/2011 National Population Health Survey, longitudinal sample (square).