Contact with medical doctors, by age group and sex, household population aged 12 and over, Canada, 2000/01

Contact with medical doctors Total, contact with medical doctors Contact with medical doctors in past 12 months No contact with medical doctors in past 12 months Contact with medical doctors, not stated
Number Number % Number % Number %
2000/01              
Total, 12 years and over 25,801,719 20,966,560 81.3 4,752,003 18.4 83,156 0.3
  Males
 12,705,415 9,548,655 75.2 3,113,674 24.5 43,086 0.3
  Females
 13,096,304 11,417,905 87.2 1,638,329 12.5 40,070 0.3
             
12-19 years 3,243,281 2,449,650 75.5 779,204 24.0 14,426 0.4
  Males
 1,662,580 1,190,310 71.6 463,736 27.9 8,533E 0.5E
  Females
 1,580,701 1,259,340 79.7 315,468 20.0 5,894E 0.4E
             
12-14 years 1,154,646 856,332 74.2 289,299 25.1 9,015E 0.8E
  Males
 601,795 443,681 73.7 152,639 25.4 5,474E 0.9E
  Females
 552,851 412,650 74.6 136,660 24.7 3,542E 0.6E
             
15-19 years 2,088,635 1,593,319 76.3 489,905 23.5 5,411E 0.3E
  Males
 1,060,785 746,629 70.4 311,097 29.3 3,059E 0.3E
  Females
 1,027,850 846,690 82.4 178,808 17.4 2,352E 0.2E
             
20-34 years 6,303,776 4,923,434 78.1 1,361,200 21.6 19,142E 0.3E
  Males
 3,191,212 2,153,999 67.5 1,026,610 32.2 10,603E 0.3E
  Females
 3,112,564 2,769,434 89.0 334,591 10.7 8,539E 0.3E
             
20-24 years 2,130,833 1,655,668 77.7 469,120 22.0 6,044E 0.3E
  Males
 1,081,580 728,423 67.3 349,643 32.3 F F
  Females
 1,049,253 927,245 88.4 119,477 11.4 F F
             
25-34 years 4,172,944 3,267,766 78.3 892,080 21.4 13,098E 0.3E
  Males
 2,109,632 1,425,576 67.6 676,966 32.1 F F
  Females
 2,063,311 1,842,190 89.3 215,114 10.4 6,008E 0.3E
             
35-44 years 5,319,716 4,189,818 78.8 1,119,619 21.0 10,280E 0.2E
  Males
 2,649,765 1,906,489 71.9 738,302 27.9 4,975E 0.2E
  Females
 2,669,951 2,283,329 85.5 381,317 14.3 5,305E 0.2E
             
45-64 years 7,287,155 6,108,175 83.8 1,161,914 15.9 17,065 0.2
  Males
 3,607,491 2,864,820 79.4 733,472 20.3 9,199E 0.3E
  Females
 3,679,663 3,243,355 88.1 428,442 11.6 7,866E 0.2E
             
45-54 years 4,449,730 3,648,799 82.0 790,051 17.8 10,880E 0.2E
  Males
 2,197,419 1,689,704 76.9 502,471 22.9 5,244E 0.2E
  Females
 2,252,312 1,959,095 87.0 287,580 12.8 5,636E 0.3E
             
55-64 years 2,837,424 2,459,376 86.7 371,863 13.1 6,185E 0.2E
  Males
 1,410,073 1,175,117 83.3 231,001 16.4 3,955E 0.3E
  Females
 1,427,352 1,284,260 90.0 140,862 9.9 2,230E 0.2E
             
65 years and over 3,647,791 3,295,482 90.3 330,066 9.0 22,243 0.6
  Males
 1,594,367 1,433,036 89.9 151,554 9.5 9,776E 0.6E
  Females
 2,053,424 1,862,446 90.7 178,512 8.7 12,466 0.6
             
65-74 years 2,156,504 1,917,611 88.9 229,533 10.6 9,360E 0.4E
  Males
 1,004,986 883,544 87.9 116,101 11.6 F F
  Females
 1,151,518 1,034,067 89.8 113,432 9.9 4,019E 0.3E
             
75 years and over 1,491,287 1,377,872 92.4 100,533 6.7 12,882 0.9
  Males
 589,380 549,493 93.2 35,453 6.0 4,435E 0.8E
  Females
 901,906 828,379 91.8 65,080 7.2 8,447E 0.9E
             

1. Data source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2000/01
2. Population aged 12 and over who have consulted with a medical doctor/pediatrician in the past 12 months.
3. Pediatrician is included for respondents less than 18 years of age.
4. Medical doctor includes family or general practitioners as well as specialists such as surgeons, allergists, orthopaedists, gynaecologists, or psychiatrists.
5. Bootstrapping techniques were used to produce the coefficient of variation (CV) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).
6. Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) from 16.6% to 33.3% are identified by an (E) and should be interpreted with caution.
7. Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) greater than 33.3% were suppressed (F) due to extreme sampling variability.
8. 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.
9. A "peer group" is a grouping of health regions that have similar social and economic characteristics.
10. In Newfoundland and Labrador, health regions are generally referred to as Health and Community Services (HCS) regions.
11. In Prince Edward Island, the two health regions divide the province into urban and rural components.
12. 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.
13. In Nova Scotia, health regions are known as "health zones" and relate to the province's administrative health region boundaries.
14. In Ontario, Public Health Units (PHU) administer health promotion and disease prevention programs, and District Health Councils (DHC) are advisory, health planning organizations.
15. 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).
16. In Saskatchewan, "service areas" (SA) have been created from groupings of the 33 health districts.
17. In Alberta, health regions are referred to as Health Authorities (HA) or Regional Health Authorities (RHA).
18. In 2002, the British Columbia Ministry of Health revised the health region boundaries, changing from 20 health regions to 16 health service delivery areas (HSDA).
19. British Columbia's HSDAs are identified with the reference date as part of the health region name; the old health regions are identified with "T" following the code.
20. Data calculated for British Columbia HSDAs will differ from previously released health region data (where boundaries remain unchanged) due to revised population estimates.
21. The following symbols are used in Statistics Canada publications: (..) for figures not available and (...) for figures not appropriate or not applicable.
22. CANSIM table number 01050061.