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Contact with alternative health care providers, by age group and sex, household population aged 12 and over, Canada, 2000/01

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 %
2000/2001              
Total, 12 years and over 25,801,719 2,832,503 11.0 22,958,100 89.0 11,116E 0.0E
  Males
 12,705,415 1,011,577 8.0 11,686,787 92.0 7,051E 0.1E
  Females
 13,096,304 1,820,926 13.9 11,271,313 86.1 4,065E 0.0E
             
12-19 years 3,243,281 160,200 4.9 3,081,353 95.0 F F
  Males
 1,662,580 62,232 3.7 1,599,536 96.2 F F
  Females
 1,580,701 97,968 6.2 1,481,817 93.7 F F
             
12-14 years 1,154,646 30,616 2.7 1,123,027 97.3 F F
  Males
 601,795 13,579 2.3 587,483 97.6 F F
  Females
 552,851 17,037 3.1 535,544 96.9 F F
             
15-19 years 2,088,635 129,584 6.2 1,958,326 93.8 F F
  Males
 1,060,785 48,653 4.6 1,012,052 95.4 F F
  Females
 1,027,850 80,931 7.9 946,274 92.1 F F
             
20-34 years 6,303,776 818,298 13.0 5,482,265 87.0 F F
  Males
 3,191,212 296,090 9.3 2,892,189 90.6 F F
  Females
 3,112,564 522,208 16.8 2,590,076 83.2 F F
             
20-24 years 2,130,833 230,167 10.8 1,899,382 89.1 F F
  Males
 1,081,580 81,305 7.5 998,990 92.4 F F
  Females
 1,049,253 148,861 14.2 900,391 85.8 F F
             
25-34 years 4,172,944 588,131 14.1 3,582,883 85.9 F F
  Males
 2,109,632 214,785 10.2 1,893,199 89.7 F F
  Females
 2,063,311 373,347 18.1 1,689,684 81.9 F F
             
35-44 years 5,319,716 732,082 13.8 4,585,050 86.2 F F
  Males
 2,649,765 253,787 9.6 2,395,004 90.4 F F
  Females
 2,669,951 478,295 17.9 2,190,047 82.0 F F
             
45-64 years 7,287,155 908,055 12.5 6,376,734 87.5 F F
  Males
 3,607,491 323,784 9.0 3,282,005 91.0 F F
  Females
 3,679,663 584,271 15.9 3,094,729 84.1 F F
             
45-54 years 4,449,730 622,091 14.0 3,826,362 86.0 F F
  Males
 2,197,419 221,516 10.1 1,974,985 89.9 F F
  Females
 2,252,312 400,575 17.8 1,851,377 82.2 F F
             
55-64 years 2,837,424 285,964 10.1 2,550,371 89.9 F F
  Males
 1,410,073 102,268 7.3 1,307,020 92.7 F F
  Females
 1,427,352 183,696 12.9 1,243,352 87.1 F F
             
65 years and over 3,647,791 213,867 5.9 3,432,698 94.1 1,225E 0.0E
  Males
 1,594,367 75,684 4.7 1,518,054 95.2 F F
  Females
 2,053,424 138,184 6.7 1,914,644 93.2 F F
             
65-74 years 2,156,504 142,633 6.6 2,013,295 93.4 F F
  Males
 1,004,986 54,618 5.4 950,011 94.5 F F
  Females
 1,151,518 88,015 7.6 1,063,284 92.3 F F
             
75 years and over 1,491,287 71,235 4.8 1,419,403 95.2 F F
  Males
 589,380 21,066 3.6 568,043 96.4 F F
  Females
 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.
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