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Pain or discomfort that affects activities, by age group and sex, household population aged 12 and over, Canada, 2000/01

Pain or discomfort that
affects activities		 Total, pain or discomfort that affects activities No pain or discomfort Pain or discomfort, does not prevent activity Pain or discomfort, prevents a few or some activities Pain or discomfort, prevents most activities Pain or discomfort, not stated
Number Number % Number % Number % Number % Number %
2000/2001                      
Total, 12 years and over 25,801,719 21,576,978 83.6 1,093,911 4.2 2,340,117 9.1 751,896 2.9 38,818 0.2
  Males
 12,705,415 10,906,502 85.8 542,155 4.3 893,724 7.0 340,880 2.7 22,154 0.2
  Females
 13,096,304 10,670,476 81.5 551,756 4.2 1,446,393 11.0 411,016 3.1 16,664 0.1
                     
12-19 years 3,243,281 3,066,237 94.5 70,651 2.2 92,152 2.8 11,202 0.3 3,039E 0.1E
  Males
 1,662,580 1,592,861 95.8 34,240 2.1 28,836 1.7 5,322E 0.3E F F
  Females
 1,580,701 1,473,376 93.2 36,411 2.3 63,316 4.0 5,880E 0.4E F F
                     
12-14 years 1,154,646 1,110,567 96.2 16,044 1.4 22,317 1.9 4,448E 0.4E F F
  Males
 601,795 579,049 96.2 9,565E 1.6E 9,275 1.5 F F F F
  Females
 552,851 531,518 96.1 6,479E 1.2E 13,042 2.4 F F F F
                     
15-19 years 2,088,635 1,955,670 93.6 54,607 2.6 69,835 3.3 6,754E 0.3E F F
  Males
 1,060,785 1,013,812 95.6 24,675 2.3 19,561 1.8 2,176E 0.2E F F
  Females
 1,027,850 941,857 91.6 29,932 2.9 50,274 4.9 4,578E 0.4E F F
                     
20-34 years 6,303,776 5,620,487 89.2 224,264 3.6 376,765 6.0 74,884 1.2 7,376E 0.1E
  Males
 3,191,212 2,877,878 90.2 128,737 4.0 144,159 4.5 35,327 1.1 F F
  Females
 3,112,564 2,742,609 88.1 95,527 3.1 232,607 7.5 39,556 1.3 2,265E 0.1E
                     
20-24 years 2,130,833 1,923,575 90.3 76,969 3.6 109,520 5.1 18,472 0.9 F F
  Males
 1,081,580 987,580 91.3 44,969 4.2 37,100 3.4 10,118E 0.9E F F
  Females
 1,049,253 935,995 89.2 32,000 3.0 72,420 6.9 8,354E 0.8E F F
                     
25-34 years 4,172,944 3,696,912 88.6 147,295 3.5 267,245 6.4 56,412 1.4 5,080E 0.1E
  Males
 2,109,632 1,890,298 89.6 83,768 4.0 107,059 5.1 25,209 1.2 F F
  Females
 2,063,311 1,806,613 87.6 63,527 3.1 160,186 7.8 31,202 1.5 F F
                     
35-44 years 5,319,716 4,484,491 84.3 226,060 4.2 465,453 8.7 136,319 2.6 7,394E 0.1E
  Males
 2,649,765 2,264,974 85.5 118,269 4.5 195,837 7.4 67,132 2.5 F F
  Females
 2,669,951 2,219,517 83.1 107,790 4.0 269,616 10.1 69,187 2.6 F F
                     
45-64 years 7,287,155 5,710,177 78.4 384,103 5.3 871,843 12.0 309,985 4.3 11,046E 0.2E
  Males
 3,607,491 2,921,111 81.0 185,925 5.2 346,897 9.6 147,166 4.1 6,393E 0.2E
  Females
 3,679,663 2,789,067 75.8 198,178 5.4 524,947 14.3 162,819 4.4 4,653E 0.1E
                     
45-54 years 4,449,730 3,546,305 79.7 219,469 4.9 514,311 11.6 163,860 3.7 5,785E 0.1E
  Males
 2,197,419 1,802,874 82.0 109,157 5.0 204,733 9.3 77,116 3.5 3,539E 0.2E
  Females
 2,252,312 1,743,432 77.4 110,312 4.9 309,578 13.7 86,744 3.9 F F
                     
55-64 years 2,837,424 2,163,872 76.3 164,633 5.8 357,533 12.6 146,125 5.1 5,262E 0.2E
  Males
 1,410,073 1,118,237 79.3 76,768 5.4 142,164 10.1 70,050 5.0 F F
  Females
 1,427,352 1,045,635 73.3 87,866 6.2 215,369 15.1 76,075 5.3 2,407E 0.2E
                     
65 years and over 3,647,791 2,695,585 73.9 188,834 5.2 533,904 14.6 219,505 6.0 9,962 0.3
  Males
 1,594,367 1,249,678 78.4 74,984 4.7 177,997 11.2 85,932 5.4 5,775E 0.4E
  Females
 2,053,424 1,445,907 70.4 113,849 5.5 355,907 17.3 133,573 6.5 4,187E 0.2E
                     
65-74 years 2,156,504 1,639,012 76.0 114,042 5.3 295,501 13.7 103,469 4.8 4,479E 0.2E
  Males
 1,004,986 801,331 79.7 47,861 4.8 104,410 10.4 49,087 4.9 2,298E 0.2E
  Females
 1,151,518 837,682 72.7 66,181 5.7 191,091 16.6 54,382 4.7 2,182E 0.2E
                     
75 years and over 1,491,287 1,056,573 70.8 74,792 5.0 238,402 16.0 116,036 7.8 5,483E 0.4E
  Males
 589,380 448,348 76.1 27,124 4.6 73,586 12.5 36,845 6.3 3,477E 0.6E
  Females
 901,906 608,225 67.4 47,668 5.3 164,816 18.3 79,191 8.8 2,005E 0.2E
                     

1. Data source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2000/01
2. Population aged 12 and over who report having pain or discomfort which prevents or limits certain activities on a continuing basis.
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. The following symbols are used in Statistics Canada publications: (..) for figures not available and (...) for figures not appropriate or not applicable.
17. CANSIM table number 01050003.
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