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

Smoking status Total, smoking Daily smoker Occasional smoker Former smoker Never smoked Smoking status, not stated
Number Number % Number % Number % Number % Number %
2000/2001                      
Total, 12 years and over 25,801,719 5,534,872 21.5 1,142,984 4.4 9,467,180 36.7 9,585,366 37.2 71,316 0.3
  Males
 12,705,415 2,988,138 23.5 574,475 4.5 5,029,892 39.6 4,064,484 32.0 48,427 0.4
  Females
 13,096,304 2,546,734 19.4 568,510 4.3 4,437,288 33.9 5,520,882 42.2 22,890 0.2
                     
12-19 years 3,243,281 416,847 12.9 188,710 5.8 476,293 14.7 2,143,454 66.1 17,977 0.6
  Males
 1,662,580 201,115 12.1 91,192 5.5 242,367 14.6 1,115,197 67.1 12,709 0.8
  Females
 1,580,701 215,732 13.6 97,518 6.2 233,927 14.8 1,028,257 65.1 5,268E 0.3E
                     
12-14 years 1,154,646 34,200 3.0 35,003 3.0 82,073 7.1 998,059 86.4 5,311E 0.5E
  Males
 601,795 13,175E 2.2E 17,308 2.9 40,070 6.7 527,906 87.7 3,336E 0.6E
  Females
 552,851 21,026 3.8 17,695 3.2 42,004 7.6 470,153 85.0 1,974E 0.4E
                     
15-19 years 2,088,635 382,647 18.3 153,708 7.4 394,220 18.9 1,145,394 54.8 12,666E 0.6E
  Males
 1,060,785 187,940 17.7 73,885 7.0 202,297 19.1 587,291 55.4 9,373E 0.9E
  Females
 1,027,850 194,707 18.9 79,823 7.8 191,923 18.7 558,103 54.3 3,294E 0.3E
                     
20-34 years 6,303,776 1,646,758 26.1 432,227 6.9 1,813,875 28.8 2,397,633 38.0 13,284E 0.2E
  Males
 3,191,212 940,570 29.5 216,988 6.8 902,259 28.3 1,122,482 35.2 8,914E 0.3E
  Females
 3,112,564 706,188 22.7 215,239 6.9 911,616 29.3 1,275,151 41.0 4,370E 0.1E
                     
20-24 years 2,130,833 564,802 26.5 180,644 8.5 549,642 25.8 829,275 38.9 6,470E 0.3E
  Males
 1,081,580 313,142 29.0 90,071 8.3 283,604 26.2 390,186 36.1 F F
  Females
 1,049,253 251,659 24.0 90,573 8.6 266,038 25.4 439,090 41.8 F F
                     
25-34 years 4,172,944 1,081,956 25.9 251,583 6.0 1,264,233 30.3 1,568,357 37.6 6,814E 0.2E
  Males
 2,109,632 627,428 29.7 126,917 6.0 618,655 29.3 732,296 34.7 4,337E 0.2E
  Females
 2,063,311 454,528 22.0 124,666 6.0 645,578 31.3 836,061 40.5 F F
                     
35-44 years 5,319,716 1,440,293 27.1 238,189 4.5 1,960,211 36.8 1,667,541 31.3 13,483E 0.3E
  Males
 2,649,765 774,663 29.2 123,048 4.6 977,045 36.9 765,769 28.9 9,240E 0.3E
  Females
 2,669,951 665,630 24.9 115,140 4.3 983,167 36.8 901,772 33.8 4,243E 0.2E
                     
45-64 years 7,287,155 1,650,232 22.6 223,816 3.1 3,334,419 45.8 2,063,040 28.3 15,648E 0.2E
  Males
 3,607,491 885,774 24.6 118,824 3.3 1,828,329 50.7 763,146 21.2 11,418E 0.3E
  Females
 3,679,663 764,458 20.8 104,992 2.9 1,506,090 40.9 1,299,894 35.3 F F
                     
45-54 years 4,449,730 1,108,286 24.9 152,954 3.4 1,926,727 43.3 1,252,645 28.2 9,119E 0.2E
  Males
 2,197,419 600,164 27.3 82,839 3.8 1,025,731 46.7 480,960 21.9 7,725E 0.4E
  Females
 2,252,312 508,122 22.6 70,114 3.1 900,997 40.0 771,684 34.3 F F
                     
55-64 years 2,837,424 541,947 19.1 70,862 2.5 1,407,692 49.6 810,395 28.6 6,529E 0.2E
  Males
 1,410,073 285,611 20.3 35,985 2.6 802,599 56.9 282,186 20.0 3,693E 0.3E
  Females
 1,427,352 256,336 18.0 34,877 2.4 605,093 42.4 528,209 37.0 F F
                     
65 years and over 3,647,791 380,742 10.4 60,043 1.6 1,882,382 51.6 1,313,700 36.0 10,924E 0.3E
  Males
 1,594,367 186,016 11.7 24,422 1.5 1,079,893 67.7 297,890 18.7 6,146E 0.4E
  Females
 2,053,424 194,726 9.5 35,621 1.7 802,490 39.1 1,015,810 49.5 4,778E 0.2E
                     
65-74 years 2,156,504 274,219 12.7 40,436 1.9 1,135,936 52.7 700,765 32.5 5,148E 0.2E
  Males
 1,004,986 136,465 13.6 15,371 1.5 667,815 66.5 182,466 18.2 F F
  Females
 1,151,518 137,754 12.0 25,065 2.2 468,121 40.7 518,299 45.0 F F
                     
75 years and over 1,491,287 106,523 7.1 19,607 1.3 746,446 50.1 612,935 41.1 5,776E 0.4E
  Males
 589,380 49,551 8.4 9,051E 1.5E 412,078 69.9 115,424 19.6 3,277E 0.6E
  Females
 901,906 56,972 6.3 10,556E 1.2E 334,368 37.1 497,511 55.2 F F
                     

1. Data source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2000/01
2. Population aged 12 and over who reported their smoking status.
3. Current smokers are those who smoke on either a daily or an occasional basis.
4. Daily smoking refers to smoking at least one cigarette per day for each of the 30 days preceding the survey.
5. Occasional smoking refers to smoking at least one cigarette during the past 30 days preceding the survey, but not every day.
6. Former smokers are those who previously smoked either daily or occasionally and are now total non-smokers.
7. Bootstrapping techniques were used to produce the coefficient of variation (CV) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).
8. Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) from 16.6% to 33.3% are identified by an (E) and should be interpreted with caution.
9. Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) greater than 33.3% were suppressed (F) due to extreme sampling variability.
10. 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.
11. A "peer group" is a grouping of health regions that have similar social and economic characteristics.
12. In Newfoundland and Labrador, health regions are generally referred to as Health and Community Services (HCS) regions.
13. In Prince Edward Island, the two health regions divide the province into urban and rural components.
14. 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.
15. In Nova Scotia, health regions are known as "health zones" and relate to the province's administrative health region boundaries.
16. In Ontario, Public Health Units (PHU) administer health promotion and disease prevention programs, and District Health Councils (DHC) are advisory, health planning organizations.
17. 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).
18. In Saskatchewan, "service areas" (SA) have been created from groupings of the 33 health districts.
19. In Alberta, health regions are referred to as Health Authorities (HA) or Regional Health Authorities (RHA).
20. The following symbols are used in Statistics Canada publications: (..) for figures not available and (...) for figures not appropriate or not applicable.
21. CANSIM table number 01050027.