Asthma, by age group and sex, household population aged 12 and over, Canada, 2000/01

Chronic conditions -
Asthma		 Total population With asthma Without asthma Asthma, not stated
Number Number % Number % Number %
2000/2001              
Total, 12 years and over 25,801,719 2,170,748 8.4 23,615,991 91.5 14,979E 0.1E
  Males
 12,705,415 878,920 6.9 11,818,983 93.0 7,512E 0.1E
  Females
 13,096,304 1,291,828 9.9 11,797,008 90.1 7,467E 0.1E
             
12-19 years 3,243,281 408,833 12.6 2,832,691 87.3 F F
  Males
 1,662,580 205,191 12.3 1,456,805 87.6 F F
  Females
 1,580,701 203,642 12.9 1,375,887 87.0 F F
             
12-14 years 1,154,646 146,331 12.7 1,006,861 87.2 F F
  Males
 601,795 79,393 13.2 521,929 86.7 F F
  Females
 552,851 66,938 12.1 484,931 87.7 F F
             
15-19 years 2,088,635 262,502 12.6 1,825,830 87.4 F F
  Males
 1,060,785 125,799 11.9 934,875 88.1 F F
  Females
 1,027,850 136,703 13.3 890,955 86.7 F F
             
20-34 years 6,303,776 608,329 9.7 5,691,770 90.3 F F
  Males
 3,191,212 237,845 7.5 2,950,807 92.5 F F
  Females
 3,112,564 370,484 11.9 2,740,963 88.1 F F
             
20-24 years 2,130,833 232,822 10.9 1,895,884 89.0 F F
  Males
 1,081,580 89,476 8.3 990,518 91.6 F F
  Females
 1,049,253 143,345 13.7 905,365 86.3 F F
             
25-34 years 4,172,944 375,507 9.0 3,795,886 91.0 F F
  Males
 2,109,632 148,369 7.0 1,960,288 92.9 F F
  Females
 2,063,311 227,139 11.0 1,835,598 89.0 F F
             
35-44 years 5,319,716 389,123 7.3 4,927,631 92.6 F F
  Males
 2,649,765 153,803 5.8 2,494,578 94.1 F F
  Females
 2,669,951 235,321 8.8 2,433,052 91.1 F F
             
45-64 years 7,287,155 501,926 6.9 6,781,383 93.1 3,845E 0.1E
  Males
 3,607,491 172,281 4.8 3,433,440 95.2 F F
  Females
 3,679,663 329,645 9.0 3,347,943 91.0 F F
             
45-54 years 4,449,730 306,481 6.9 4,142,156 93.1 F F
  Males
 2,197,419 103,281 4.7 2,093,733 95.3 F F
  Females
 2,252,312 203,199 9.0 2,048,423 90.9 F F
             
55-64 years 2,837,424 195,446 6.9 2,639,228 93.0 F F
  Males
 1,410,073 69,000 4.9 1,339,707 95.0 F F
  Females
 1,427,352 126,446 8.9 1,299,521 91.0 F F
             
65 years and over 3,647,791 262,537 7.2 3,382,516 92.7 2,738E 0.1E
  Males
 1,594,367 109,800 6.9 1,483,353 93.0 F F
  Females
 2,053,424 152,737 7.4 1,899,162 92.5 F F
             
65-74 years 2,156,504 154,112 7.1 2,001,706 92.8 F F
  Males
 1,004,986 63,430 6.3 941,528 93.7 F F
  Females
 1,151,518 90,682 7.9 1,060,178 92.1 F F
             
75 years and over 1,491,287 108,426 7.3 1,380,809 92.6 F F
  Males
 589,380 46,371 7.9 541,826 91.9 F F
  Females
 901,906 62,055 6.9 838,984 93.0 F F
             

1. Data source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2000/01
2. Population aged 12 and over who report that they have been diagnosed by a health professional as having asthma.
3. Bootstrapping techniques were used to produce the coefficient of variation (CV) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).
4. Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) from 16.6% to 33.3% are identified by an (E) and should be interpreted with caution.
5. Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) greater than 33.3% were suppressed (F) due to extreme sampling variability.
6. Health regions are defined by provincial governments as the areas of responsibility for regional health boards (i.e., legislated) or as regions of interest to health care authorities.
7. A "peer group" is a grouping of health regions that have similar social and economic characteristics.
8. In Newfoundland and Labrador, health regions are generally referred to as Health and Community Services (HCS) regions.
9. In Prince Edward Island, the two health regions divide the province into urban and rural components.
10. Prince Edward Island has defined these health regions for statistical purposes only; they bear no resemblance to the boundaries of the five actual administrative health regions.
11. In Nova Scotia, health regions are known as "health zones" and relate to the province's administrative health region boundaries.
12. In Ontario, Public Health Units (PHU) administer health promotion and disease prevention programs, and District Health Councils (DHC) are advisory, health planning organizations.
13. Because of the small population of Churchill, Manitoba (population: 1,110 in 1996), the Canadian Community Health Survey only collects data for the aggregation of Burntwood/Churchill (regions 4680, 4690).
14. In Saskatchewan, "service areas" (SA) have been created from groupings of the 33 health districts.
15. In Alberta, health regions are referred to as Health Authorities (HA) or Regional Health Authorities (RHA).
16. The following symbols are used in Statistics Canada publications: (..) for figures not available and (...) for figures not appropriate or not applicable.
17. CANSIM table number 01050001.