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Contact with medical doctors, by age group and sex, household population aged 12 and over, Canada, 2003

Contact with medical doctors           Total Contact with medical doctors in past 12 months No contact with medical doctors in past 12 months Contact with medical doctors, not stated
Number Number % Number % Number %
2003  
Total, 12 years and over 26,578,125 21,264,175 80.0 5,154,007 19.4 159,943 0.6
Males 13,090,299 9,723,409 74.3 3,316,415 25.3 50,474 0.4
Females 13,487,826 11,540,765 85.6 1,837,592 13.6 109,469 0.8
12-19 years 3,316,567 2,399,906 72.4 874,772 26.4 41,889 1.3
Males 1,700,772 1,173,814 69.0 508,705 29.9 18,254 1.1
Females 1,615,795 1,226,093 75.9 366,067 22.7 23,636 1.5
12-14 years 1,275,076 875,960 68.7 370,061 29.0 29,055 2.3
Males 664,241 457,787 68.9 193,337 29.1 13,117 E 2.0 E
Females 610,835 418,174 68.5 176,723 28.9 15,938 2.6
15-19 years 2,041,491 1,523,946 74.6 504,711 24.7 12,834 E 0.6 E
Males 1,036,531 716,027 69.1 315,367 30.4 5,137 E 0.5 E
Females 1,004,960 807,919 80.4 189,344 18.8 7,697 E 0.8 E
20-34 years 6,317,776 4,829,572 76.4 1,466,797 23.2 21,408 0.3
Males 3,166,496 2,091,513 66.1 1,067,689 33.7 7,294 E 0.2 E
Females 3,151,281 2,738,059 86.9 399,108 12.7 14,114 E 0.4 E
20-24 years 2,166,912 1,655,164 76.4 504,090 23.3 7,658 E 0.4 E
Males 1,111,860 735,214 66.1 373,787 33.6 F F
Females 1,055,052 919,950 87.2 130,303 12.4 F F
25-34 years 4,150,865 3,174,408 76.5 962,707 23.2 13,750 E 0.3 E
Males 2,054,636 1,356,299 66.0 693,902 33.8 4,435 E 0.2 E
Females 2,096,229 1,818,109 86.7 268,805 12.8 9,315 E 0.4 E
35-44 years 5,296,597 4,140,156 78.2 1,134,735 21.4 21,706 E 0.4 E
Males 2,671,810 1,917,934 71.8 748,160 28.0 5,716 E 0.2 E
Females 2,624,787 2,222,223 84.7 386,574 14.7 15,990 E 0.6 E
45-64 years 7,862,039 6,508,165 82.8 1,313,808 16.7 40,066 0.5
Males 3,891,595 3,065,388 78.8 815,633 21.0 10,574 E 0.3 E
Females 3,970,443 3,442,777 86.7 498,175 12.5 29,492 E 0.7 E
45-54 years 4,571,406 3,691,107 80.7 861,151 18.8 19,149 E 0.4 E
Males 2,240,920 1,696,620 75.7 537,196 24.0 7,104 E 0.3 E
Females 2,330,486 1,994,487 85.6 323,955 13.9 12,044 E 0.5 E
55-64 years 3,290,633 2,817,058 85.6 452,657 13.8 20,917 E 0.6 E
Males 1,650,676 1,368,768 82.9 278,438 16.9 3,470 E 0.2 E
Females 1,639,957 1,448,290 88.3 174,220 10.6 17,448 E 1.1 E
65 years and over 3,785,145 3,386,375 89.5 363,896 9.6 34,874 0.9
Males 1,659,626 1,474,762 88.9 176,227 10.6 8,637 0.5
Females 2,125,520 1,911,614 89.9 187,668 8.8 26,238 1.2
65-74 years 2,182,159 1,940,479 88.9 227,019 10.4 14,661 0.7
Males 1,030,238 904,111 87.8 122,492 11.9 3,634 E 0.4 E
Females 1,151,922 1,036,368 90.0 104,527 9.1 11,027 E 1.0 E
75 years and over 1,602,986 1,445,896 90.2 136,876 8.5 20,214 1.3
Males 629,388 570,650 90.7 53,736 8.5 5,002 E 0.8 E
Females 973,598 875,246 89.9 83,141 8.5 15,211 1.6
1. Data source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2003
2. Population aged 12 and over who have consulted with a medical doctor/pediatrician in the past 12 months.
3. Medical doctors include family or general practitioners as well as specialists such as surgeons, allergists, orthopaedists, gynaecologists, or psychiatrists. For population aged 18 and under, includes pediatricians.
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 01050261.
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