Frequency of drinking 5 or more drinks on one occasion in the last 12 months, by age group and sex, household population aged 12 and over who are current drinkers, Canada, 2000/01

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 %
2000/2001                  
Total, 12 years and over 19,832,244 11,028,396 55.6 4,618,818 23.3 3,979,661 20.1 205,369 1.0
  Males
 10,254,854 4,624,858 45.1 2,606,918 25.4 2,902,319 28.3 120,759 1.2
  Females
 9,577,389 6,403,537 66.9 2,011,900 21.0 1,077,342 11.2 84,610 0.9
                 
12-19 years 1,732,962 810,443 46.8 456,590 26.3 435,482 25.1 30,448 1.8
  Males
 896,639 385,784 43.0 224,658 25.1 269,607 30.1 16,590 1.9
  Females
 836,324 424,658 50.8 231,932 27.7 165,875 19.8 13,858 1.7
                 
12-14 years 263,807 213,023 80.7 33,675 12.8 12,544 4.8 4,564E 1.7E
  Males
 142,545 118,252 83.0 16,929 11.9 4,347E 3.0E F F
  Females
 121,262 94,772 78.2 16,747 13.8 8,197E 6.8E F F
                 
15-19 years 1,469,155 597,419 40.7 422,915 28.8 422,937 28.8 25,884 1.8
  Males
 754,094 267,533 35.5 207,729 27.5 265,260 35.2 13,572 1.8
  Females
 715,062 329,886 46.1 215,186 30.1 157,678 22.1 12,312E 1.7E
                 
20-34 years 5,419,565 2,041,432 37.7 1,717,520 31.7 1,587,004 29.3 73,609 1.4
  Males
 2,854,263 805,019 28.2 875,561 30.7 1,127,698 39.5 45,986 1.6
  Females
 2,565,302 1,236,413 48.2 841,959 32.8 459,307 17.9 27,623 1.1
                 
20-24 years 1,854,368 561,994 30.3 569,025 30.7 687,829 37.1 35,519E 1.9E
  Males
 972,394 223,558 23.0 265,838 27.3 458,213 47.1 24,785E 2.5E
  Females
 881,973 338,436 38.4 303,187 34.4 229,616 26.0 10,734E 1.2E
                 
25-34 years 3,565,197 1,479,437 41.5 1,148,495 32.2 899,175 25.2 38,090 1.1
  Males
 1,881,869 581,461 30.9 609,723 32.4 669,484 35.6 21,201E 1.1E
  Females
 1,683,328 897,976 53.3 538,772 32.0 229,691 13.6 16,889E 1.0E
                 
35-44 years 4,470,852 2,332,263 52.2 1,188,862 26.6 923,006 20.6 26,721 0.6
  Males
 2,306,760 951,405 41.2 676,264 29.3 663,943 28.8 15,148 0.7
  Females
 2,164,092 1,380,858 63.8 512,597 23.7 259,063 12.0 11,574 0.5
                 
45-64 years 5,824,995 3,786,967 65.0 1,078,972 18.5 908,842 15.6 50,214 0.9
  Males
 3,025,253 1,564,736 51.7 698,182 23.1 732,817 24.2 29,517 1.0
  Females
 2,799,743 2,222,230 79.4 380,790 13.6 176,026 6.3 20,697 0.7
                 
45-54 years 3,625,833 2,207,017 60.9 759,438 20.9 626,189 17.3 33,189 0.9
  Males
 1,867,862 874,494 46.8 476,412 25.5 496,321 26.6 20,636 1.1
  Females
 1,757,972 1,332,523 75.8 283,026 16.1 129,869 7.4 12,554E 0.7E
                 
55-64 years 2,199,162 1,579,950 71.8 319,534 14.5 282,653 12.9 17,025 0.8
  Males
 1,157,391 690,243 59.6 221,770 19.2 236,496 20.4 8,882 0.8
  Females
 1,041,771 889,707 85.4 97,764 9.4 46,157 4.4 8,143E 0.8E
                 
65 years and over 2,383,869 2,057,292 86.3 176,875 7.4 125,326 5.3 24,376 1.0
  Males
 1,171,939 917,913 78.3 132,253 11.3 108,255 9.2 13,518E 1.2E
  Females
 1,211,929 1,139,379 94.0 44,621 3.7 17,071 1.4 10,858 0.9
                 
65-74 years 1,518,045 1,257,976 82.9 139,351 9.2 105,799 7.0 14,920E 1.0E
  Males
 768,909 564,317 73.4 103,020 13.4 91,837 11.9 9,735E 1.3E
  Females
 749,137 693,659 92.6 36,331 4.8 13,962 1.9 5,185E 0.7E
                 
75 years and over 865,823 799,316 92.3 37,524 4.3 19,527 2.3 9,456 1.1
  Males
 403,031 353,596 87.7 29,233 7.3 16,418 4.1 3,783E 0.9E
  Females
 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 one occasion, twelve or more times 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. 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).
17. CANSIM table number 01050031.