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Contact with alternative health care providers, by age group and sex, household population aged 12 and over, Canada, 2003

Contact with alternative health care  providers Total 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 %
2003  
Total, 12 years and over 26,578,125 3,288,415 12.4 23,274,189 87.6 15,521 0.1
Males 13,090,299 1,126,820 8.6 11,956,078 91.3 7,400 E 0.1 E
Females 13,487,826 2,161,595 16.0 11,318,111 83.9 8,121 E 0.1 E
12-19 years 3,316,567 166,765 5.0 3,148,068 94.9 F F
Males 1,700,772 56,372 3.3 1,643,098 96.6 F F
Females 1,615,795 110,393 6.8 1,504,970 93.1 F F
12-14 years 1,275,076 33,823 2.7 1,239,592 97.2 F F
Males 664,241 15,549 2.3 647,446 97.5 F F
Females 610,835 18,274 3.0 592,146 96.9 F F
15-19 years 2,041,491 132,942 6.5 1,908,476 93.5 F F
Males 1,036,531 40,823 3.9 995,652 96.1 F F
Females 1,004,960 92,119 9.2 912,823 90.8 F F
20-34 years 6,317,776 934,977 14.8 5,380,808 85.2 F F
Males 3,166,496 324,649 10.3 2,841,310 89.7 F F
Females 3,151,281 610,329 19.4 2,539,499 80.6 F F
20-24 years 2,166,912 248,636 11.5 1,918,250 88.5 F F
Males 1,111,860 77,589 7.0 1,034,245 93.0 F F
Females 1,055,052 171,047 16.2 884,005 83.8 F F
25-34 years 4,150,865 686,341 16.5 3,462,558 83.4 F F
Males 2,054,636 247,059 12.0 1,807,065 88.0 F F
Females 2,096,229 439,282 21.0 1,655,493 79.0 F F
35-44 years 5,296,597 875,079 16.5 4,418,764 83.4 F F
Males 2,671,810 317,826 11.9 2,352,315 88.0 F F
Females 2,624,787 557,253 21.2 2,066,449 78.7 F F
45-64 years 7,862,039 1,081,868 13.8 6,776,121 86.2 F F
Males 3,891,595 359,186 9.2 3,530,886 90.7 F F
Females 3,970,443 722,681 18.2 3,245,235 81.7 F F
45-54 years 4,571,406 711,240 15.6 3,859,001 84.4 F F
Males 2,240,920 234,279 10.5 2,006,495 89.5 F F
Females 2,330,486 476,961 20.5 1,852,506 79.5 F F
55-64 years 3,290,633 370,628 11.3 2,917,120 88.6 F F
Males 1,650,676 124,908 7.6 1,524,391 92.3 F F
Females 1,639,957 245,720 15.0 1,392,729 84.9 F F
65 years and over 3,785,145 229,727 6.1 3,550,428 93.8 4,991 E 0.1 E
Males 1,659,626 68,787 4.1 1,588,469 95.7 2,370 E 0.1 E
Females 2,125,520 160,940 7.6 1,961,959 92.3 2,621 E 0.1 E
65-74 years 2,182,159 152,903 7.0 2,027,400 92.9 1,856 E 0.1 E
Males 1,030,238 43,575 4.2 985,173 95.6 F F
Females 1,151,922 109,329 9.5 1,042,227 90.5 F F
75 years and over 1,602,986 76,823 4.8 1,523,028 95.0 3,135 E 0.2 E
Males 629,388 25,212 4.0 603,296 95.9 F F
Females 973,598 51,611 5.3 919,732 94.5 2,255 E 0.2 E
1. Data source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2003
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 the provincial ministries of health. These are legislated administrative areas in all provinces except Nova Scotia. In Nova Scotia, the Ministry of Health uses statistical "zones" rather than its legislated administrative areas; the zones are aggregations of the nine district health authorities.
8. For complete Canadian coverage, each of the northern territories also represents a health region.
9. The health regions presented in this table are based on boundaries and names in effect as of June 2003.
10. A "peer group" is a grouping of health regions that have similar social and economic characteristics. The nine peer groups are identified by the letters A through I, which are appended to the health region 4-digit code.
11. In Ontario, Public health units (PHU) administer health promotion and disease prevention programs, and District health councils (DHC) are advisory, health planning organizations.
12. In Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, health regions are referred to as Health Authorities (HA) or Regional Health Authorities (RHA).
13. To avoid data suppression, northern regions in Manitoba have been grouped with neighbouring regions, as follows: Churchill Regional Health Authority (4690) is combined with Burntwood Regional Health Authority (4680) and referred to as "Burntwood/Churchill (4685)".
14. To avoid data suppression, northern regions in Saskatchewan have been grouped with neighbouring regions, as follows: Athabasca Health Authority (4713) is combined with Mamawetan Churchill River Regional Health Authority (4711) and Keewatin Yatthé Regional Health Authority (4712) and referred to as "Mamawetan/Keewatin/Athabasca (4714)".
15. The following standard symbols are used in Statistics Canada publications: (..) for figures not available for a specific reference period and (...) for figures not applicable.
16. CANSIM table number 01050262.
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