Contact with alternative health care providers |
Total, contact with alternative health care providers | Contact with alternative health care providers | No contact with alternative health care providers | Contact with alternative health care providers, not stated | ||||||
Number | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | ||||
25,801,719 | 2,832,503 | 11.0 | 22,958,100 | 89.0 | 11,116E | 0.0E | ||||
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12,705,415 | 1,011,577 | 8.0 | 11,686,787 | 92.0 | 7,051E | 0.1E | |||
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13,096,304 | 1,820,926 | 13.9 | 11,271,313 | 86.1 | 4,065E | 0.0E | |||
3,243,281 | 160,200 | 4.9 | 3,081,353 | 95.0 | F | F | ||||
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1,662,580 | 62,232 | 3.7 | 1,599,536 | 96.2 | F | F | |||
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1,580,701 | 97,968 | 6.2 | 1,481,817 | 93.7 | F | F | |||
1,154,646 | 30,616 | 2.7 | 1,123,027 | 97.3 | F | F | ||||
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601,795 | 13,579 | 2.3 | 587,483 | 97.6 | F | F | |||
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552,851 | 17,037 | 3.1 | 535,544 | 96.9 | F | F | |||
2,088,635 | 129,584 | 6.2 | 1,958,326 | 93.8 | F | F | ||||
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1,060,785 | 48,653 | 4.6 | 1,012,052 | 95.4 | F | F | |||
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1,027,850 | 80,931 | 7.9 | 946,274 | 92.1 | F | F | |||
6,303,776 | 818,298 | 13.0 | 5,482,265 | 87.0 | F | F | ||||
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3,191,212 | 296,090 | 9.3 | 2,892,189 | 90.6 | F | F | |||
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3,112,564 | 522,208 | 16.8 | 2,590,076 | 83.2 | F | F | |||
2,130,833 | 230,167 | 10.8 | 1,899,382 | 89.1 | F | F | ||||
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1,081,580 | 81,305 | 7.5 | 998,990 | 92.4 | F | F | |||
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1,049,253 | 148,861 | 14.2 | 900,391 | 85.8 | F | F | |||
4,172,944 | 588,131 | 14.1 | 3,582,883 | 85.9 | F | F | ||||
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2,109,632 | 214,785 | 10.2 | 1,893,199 | 89.7 | F | F | |||
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2,063,311 | 373,347 | 18.1 | 1,689,684 | 81.9 | F | F | |||
5,319,716 | 732,082 | 13.8 | 4,585,050 | 86.2 | F | F | ||||
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2,649,765 | 253,787 | 9.6 | 2,395,004 | 90.4 | F | F | |||
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2,669,951 | 478,295 | 17.9 | 2,190,047 | 82.0 | F | F | |||
7,287,155 | 908,055 | 12.5 | 6,376,734 | 87.5 | F | F | ||||
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3,607,491 | 323,784 | 9.0 | 3,282,005 | 91.0 | F | F | |||
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3,679,663 | 584,271 | 15.9 | 3,094,729 | 84.1 | F | F | |||
4,449,730 | 622,091 | 14.0 | 3,826,362 | 86.0 | F | F | ||||
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2,197,419 | 221,516 | 10.1 | 1,974,985 | 89.9 | F | F | |||
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2,252,312 | 400,575 | 17.8 | 1,851,377 | 82.2 | F | F | |||
2,837,424 | 285,964 | 10.1 | 2,550,371 | 89.9 | F | F | ||||
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1,410,073 | 102,268 | 7.3 | 1,307,020 | 92.7 | F | F | |||
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1,427,352 | 183,696 | 12.9 | 1,243,352 | 87.1 | F | F | |||
3,647,791 | 213,867 | 5.9 | 3,432,698 | 94.1 | 1,225E | 0.0E | ||||
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1,594,367 | 75,684 | 4.7 | 1,518,054 | 95.2 | F | F | |||
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2,053,424 | 138,184 | 6.7 | 1,914,644 | 93.2 | F | F | |||
2,156,504 | 142,633 | 6.6 | 2,013,295 | 93.4 | F | F | ||||
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1,004,986 | 54,618 | 5.4 | 950,011 | 94.5 | F | F | |||
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1,151,518 | 88,015 | 7.6 | 1,063,284 | 92.3 | F | F | |||
1,491,287 | 71,235 | 4.8 | 1,419,403 | 95.2 | F | F | ||||
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589,380 | 21,066 | 3.6 | 568,043 | 96.4 | F | F | |||
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901,906 | 50,169 | 5.6 | 851,360 | 94.4 | F | F | |||
1. | Data source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2000/01 |
2. | Population aged 12 and over who have consulted with an alternative health care provider in the past 12 months. |
3. | Alternative health care providers include: massage therapists, acupuncturists, homeopaths or naturopaths, Feldenkrais or Alexander teachers, relaxation therapists, biofeedback teachers, rolfers, herbalists, reflexologists, spiritual healers, religious healers, etc. |
4. | Bootstrapping techniques were used to produce the coefficient of variation (CV) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). |
5. | Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) from 16.6% to 33.3% are identified by an (E) and should be interpreted with caution. |
6. | Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) greater than 33.3% were suppressed (F) due to extreme sampling variability. |
7. | 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. |
8. | A "peer group" is a grouping of health regions that have similar social and economic characteristics. |
9. | In Newfoundland and Labrador, health regions are generally referred to as Health and Community Services (HCS) regions. |
10. | In Prince Edward Island, the two health regions divide the province into urban and rural components. |
11. | 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. |
12. | In Nova Scotia, health regions are known as "health zones" and relate to the province's administrative health region boundaries. |
13. | In Ontario, Public Health Units (PHU) administer health promotion and disease prevention programs, and District Health Councils (DHC) are advisory, health planning organizations. |
14. | 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). |
15. | In Saskatchewan, "service areas" (SA) have been created from groupings of the 33 health districts. |
16. | In Alberta, health regions are referred to as Health Authorities (HA) or Regional Health Authorities (RHA). |
17. | The following symbols are used in Statistics Canada publications: (..) for figures not available and (...) for figures not appropriate or not applicable. |
18. | CANSIM table number 01050062. |