Contact with health professionals about mental health, by sex, household population aged 12 and over, territories, 1994/95-1996/97

Contact with health professionals
about mental health
Total, contact with health professionals about mental health Contact with health professionals about mental health in past 12 months No contact with health professionals about mental health in past 12 months Contact with health professionals about mental health, not stated
Number Number % Number % Number %
1994/1995              
Territories 65,228 4,442 6.8 57,523 88.2 3,263 5.0
  Males
33,977 1,542E 4.5E 30,099 88.6 2,336 6.9
  Females
31,251 2,900 9.3 27,424 87.8 927E 3.0E
             
Yukon Territory 20,759 1,272 6.1 18,736 90.3 750E 3.6E
  Males
10,832 364E 3.4E 9,980 92.1 488E 4.5E
  Females
9,927 908 9.1 8,757 88.2 263E 2.6E
             
Northwest Territories including Nunavut 44,469 3,170 7.1 38,787 87.2 2,513 5.7
  Males
23,145 1,177E 5.1E 20,120 86.9 1,848E 8.0
  Females
21,324 1,993E 9.3E 18,667 87.5 665E 3.1E
             
Northwest Territories excluding Nunavut 28,228 2,110E 7.5E 24,553 87.0 1,565E 5.5E
  Males
14,692 767E 5.2E 12,677 86.3 1,247E 8.5E
  Females
13,536 1,343E 9.9E 11,876 87.7 F F
             
Nunavut 16,241 1,060E 6.5E 14,234 87.6 948E 5.8E
  Males
8,453 F F 7,442 88.0 601E 7.1E
  Females
7,788 650E 8.3E 6,791 87.2 F F
             
1996/1997              
Territories 69,142 5,409 7.8 59,179 85.6 4,555 6.6
  Males
36,228 1,904E 5.3E 31,568 87.1 2,757E 7.6
  Females
32,914 3,505 10.6 27,611 83.9 1,798E 5.5E
             
Yukon Territory 22,408 1,568 7.0 20,552 91.7 F F
  Males
11,625 475E 4.1E 11,052 95.1 F F
  Females
10,782 1,093E 10.1 9,499 88.1 F F
             
Northwest Territories including Nunavut 46,734 3,841 8.2 38,627 82.7 4,266 9.1
  Males
24,603 1,429E 5.8E 20,516 83.4 2,659E 10.8
  Females
22,131 2,412E 10.9E 18,111 81.8 1,607E 7.3E
             
Northwest Territories excluding Nunavut 30,344 2,587E 8.5E 25,451 83.9 2,305E 7.6E
  Males
15,880 F 6.3E 13,444 84.7 1,440E 9.1E
  Females
14,464 1,592E 11.0E 12,007 83.0 F 6.0E
             
Nunavut 16,390 1,254E 7.6E 13,176 80.4 1,961E 12.0
  Males
8,723 F 5.0E 7,072 81.1 1,219E 14.0E
  Females
7,667 821E 10.7E 6,104 79.6 742E 9.7E
             

1. Data source: Statistics Canada, National Population Health Survey, 1994/95 and 1996/97, cross sectional sample, health file, North component
2. Population aged 12 and over who have consulted with a health professional about their mental health in the past 12 months.
3. Mental health professionals include: family doctors or general practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers and counsellors.
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. CANSIM table number 01045063.