Frequency of heavy drinking |
Total, population reporting drinking | Never 5 or more drinks on one occasion | 5 or more drinks on one occasion, less than twelve times a year | 5 or more drinks on one occasion, twelve or more times a year | Drinking frequency, not stated | |||||||
Number | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | ||||
19,832,244 | 11,028,396 | 55.6 | 4,618,818 | 23.3 | 3,979,661 | 20.1 | 205,369 | 1.0 | ||||
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10,254,854 | 4,624,858 | 45.1 | 2,606,918 | 25.4 | 2,902,319 | 28.3 | 120,759 | 1.2 | |||
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9,577,389 | 6,403,537 | 66.9 | 2,011,900 | 21.0 | 1,077,342 | 11.2 | 84,610 | 0.9 | |||
1,732,962 | 810,443 | 46.8 | 456,590 | 26.3 | 435,482 | 25.1 | 30,448 | 1.8 | ||||
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896,639 | 385,784 | 43.0 | 224,658 | 25.1 | 269,607 | 30.1 | 16,590 | 1.9 | |||
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836,324 | 424,658 | 50.8 | 231,932 | 27.7 | 165,875 | 19.8 | 13,858 | 1.7 | |||
263,807 | 213,023 | 80.7 | 33,675 | 12.8 | 12,544 | 4.8 | 4,564E | 1.7E | ||||
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142,545 | 118,252 | 83.0 | 16,929 | 11.9 | 4,347E | 3.0E | F | F | |||
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121,262 | 94,772 | 78.2 | 16,747 | 13.8 | 8,197E | 6.8E | F | F | |||
1,469,155 | 597,419 | 40.7 | 422,915 | 28.8 | 422,937 | 28.8 | 25,884 | 1.8 | ||||
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754,094 | 267,533 | 35.5 | 207,729 | 27.5 | 265,260 | 35.2 | 13,572 | 1.8 | |||
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715,062 | 329,886 | 46.1 | 215,186 | 30.1 | 157,678 | 22.1 | 12,312E | 1.7E | |||
5,419,565 | 2,041,432 | 37.7 | 1,717,520 | 31.7 | 1,587,004 | 29.3 | 73,609 | 1.4 | ||||
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2,854,263 | 805,019 | 28.2 | 875,561 | 30.7 | 1,127,698 | 39.5 | 45,986 | 1.6 | |||
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2,565,302 | 1,236,413 | 48.2 | 841,959 | 32.8 | 459,307 | 17.9 | 27,623 | 1.1 | |||
1,854,368 | 561,994 | 30.3 | 569,025 | 30.7 | 687,829 | 37.1 | 35,519E | 1.9E | ||||
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972,394 | 223,558 | 23.0 | 265,838 | 27.3 | 458,213 | 47.1 | 24,785E | 2.5E | |||
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881,973 | 338,436 | 38.4 | 303,187 | 34.4 | 229,616 | 26.0 | 10,734E | 1.2E | |||
3,565,197 | 1,479,437 | 41.5 | 1,148,495 | 32.2 | 899,175 | 25.2 | 38,090 | 1.1 | ||||
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1,881,869 | 581,461 | 30.9 | 609,723 | 32.4 | 669,484 | 35.6 | 21,201E | 1.1E | |||
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1,683,328 | 897,976 | 53.3 | 538,772 | 32.0 | 229,691 | 13.6 | 16,889E | 1.0E | |||
4,470,852 | 2,332,263 | 52.2 | 1,188,862 | 26.6 | 923,006 | 20.6 | 26,721 | 0.6 | ||||
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2,306,760 | 951,405 | 41.2 | 676,264 | 29.3 | 663,943 | 28.8 | 15,148 | 0.7 | |||
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2,164,092 | 1,380,858 | 63.8 | 512,597 | 23.7 | 259,063 | 12.0 | 11,574 | 0.5 | |||
5,824,995 | 3,786,967 | 65.0 | 1,078,972 | 18.5 | 908,842 | 15.6 | 50,214 | 0.9 | ||||
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3,025,253 | 1,564,736 | 51.7 | 698,182 | 23.1 | 732,817 | 24.2 | 29,517 | 1.0 | |||
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2,799,743 | 2,222,230 | 79.4 | 380,790 | 13.6 | 176,026 | 6.3 | 20,697 | 0.7 | |||
3,625,833 | 2,207,017 | 60.9 | 759,438 | 20.9 | 626,189 | 17.3 | 33,189 | 0.9 | ||||
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1,867,862 | 874,494 | 46.8 | 476,412 | 25.5 | 496,321 | 26.6 | 20,636 | 1.1 | |||
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1,757,972 | 1,332,523 | 75.8 | 283,026 | 16.1 | 129,869 | 7.4 | 12,554E | 0.7E | |||
2,199,162 | 1,579,950 | 71.8 | 319,534 | 14.5 | 282,653 | 12.9 | 17,025 | 0.8 | ||||
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1,157,391 | 690,243 | 59.6 | 221,770 | 19.2 | 236,496 | 20.4 | 8,882 | 0.8 | |||
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1,041,771 | 889,707 | 85.4 | 97,764 | 9.4 | 46,157 | 4.4 | 8,143E | 0.8E | |||
2,383,869 | 2,057,292 | 86.3 | 176,875 | 7.4 | 125,326 | 5.3 | 24,376 | 1.0 | ||||
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1,171,939 | 917,913 | 78.3 | 132,253 | 11.3 | 108,255 | 9.2 | 13,518E | 1.2E | |||
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1,211,929 | 1,139,379 | 94.0 | 44,621 | 3.7 | 17,071 | 1.4 | 10,858 | 0.9 | |||
1,518,045 | 1,257,976 | 82.9 | 139,351 | 9.2 | 105,799 | 7.0 | 14,920E | 1.0E | ||||
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768,909 | 564,317 | 73.4 | 103,020 | 13.4 | 91,837 | 11.9 | 9,735E | 1.3E | |||
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749,137 | 693,659 | 92.6 | 36,331 | 4.8 | 13,962 | 1.9 | 5,185E | 0.7E | |||
865,823 | 799,316 | 92.3 | 37,524 | 4.3 | 19,527 | 2.3 | 9,456 | 1.1 | ||||
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403,031 | 353,596 | 87.7 | 29,233 | 7.3 | 16,418 | 4.1 | 3,783E | 0.9E | |||
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462,792 | 445,720 | 96.3 | 8,290E | 1.8E | 3,109E | 0.7E | 5,674E | 1.2E | |||
1. | Data source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2000/01 |
2. | Population aged 12 and over who are current drinkers and who reported drinking 5 or more drinks on at least one occasion in the past 12 months. |
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 01050031. |