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Contact with health professionals about mental health, by age group and sex, household population aged 12 and over, Canada, 2000/01

Contact with health professionals
about mental health		 Total, contact with health professionals about mental health Contact with health professionals about mental health in past 12 months No contact with health professionals about mental health in past 12 months Contact with health professionals about mental health, not stated
Number Number % Number % Number %
2000/2001              
Total, 12 years and over 25,801,719 2,125,565 8.2 23,408,715 90.7 267,439 1.0
  Males
 12,705,415 680,456 5.4 11,884,301 93.5 140,658 1.1
  Females
 13,096,304 1,445,109 11.0 11,524,414 88.0 126,781 1.0
             
12-19 years 3,243,281 188,531 5.8 3,030,909 93.5 23,842 0.7
  Males
 1,662,580 62,271 3.7 1,588,260 95.5 12,049E 0.7E
  Females
 1,580,701 126,260 8.0 1,442,649 91.3 11,793E 0.7E
             
12-14 years 1,154,646 59,827 5.2 1,087,967 94.2 6,852E 0.6E
  Males
 601,795 26,541 4.4 571,766 95.0 3,487E 0.6E
  Females
 552,851 33,285 6.0 516,201 93.4 3,365E 0.6E
             
15-19 years 2,088,635 128,704 6.2 1,942,941 93.0 16,990E 0.8E
  Males
 1,060,785 35,730 3.4 1,016,494 95.8 8,562E 0.8E
  Females
 1,027,850 92,974 9.0 926,447 90.1 8,428E 0.8E
             
20-34 years 6,303,776 566,875 9.0 5,664,321 89.9 72,580 1.2
  Males
 3,191,212 162,021 5.1 2,992,756 93.8 36,435 1.1
  Females
 3,112,564 404,855 13.0 2,671,565 85.8 36,145 1.2
             
20-24 years 2,130,833 168,018 7.9 1,939,396 91.0 23,419E 1.1E
  Males
 1,081,580 49,686 4.6 1,016,909 94.0 14,985E 1.4E
  Females
 1,049,253 118,332 11.3 922,486 87.9 F F
             
25-34 years 4,172,944 398,858 9.6 3,724,926 89.3 49,161 1.2
  Males
 2,109,632 112,335 5.3 1,975,847 93.7 21,450 1.0
  Females
 2,063,311 286,523 13.9 1,749,078 84.8 27,710 1.3
             
35-44 years 5,319,716 616,309 11.6 4,660,177 87.6 43,231 0.8
  Males
 2,649,765 197,847 7.5 2,428,879 91.7 23,039 0.9
  Females
 2,669,951 418,461 15.7 2,231,299 83.6 20,192 0.8
             
45-64 years 7,287,155 627,091 8.6 6,587,560 90.4 72,504 1.0
  Males
 3,607,491 216,667 6.0 3,348,882 92.8 41,943 1.2
  Females
 3,679,663 410,424 11.2 3,238,678 88.0 30,561 0.8
             
45-54 years 4,449,730 443,119 10.0 3,958,994 89.0 47,618 1.1
  Males
 2,197,419 149,473 6.8 2,021,704 92.0 26,242 1.2
  Females
 2,252,312 293,646 13.0 1,937,290 86.0 21,376 0.9
             
55-64 years 2,837,424 183,973 6.5 2,628,566 92.6 24,886 0.9
  Males
 1,410,073 67,194 4.8 1,327,178 94.1 15,701 1.1E
  Females
 1,427,352 116,779 8.2 1,301,388 91.2 9,185E 0.6E
             
65 years and over 3,647,791 126,759 3.5 3,465,748 95.0 55,284 1.5
  Males
 1,594,367 41,650 2.6 1,525,525 95.7 27,193 1.7
  Females
 2,053,424 85,109 4.1 1,940,224 94.5 28,091 1.4
             
65-74 years 2,156,504 84,959 3.9 2,045,242 94.8 26,304 1.2
  Males
 1,004,986 29,267 2.9 960,963 95.6 14,757 1.5
  Females
 1,151,518 55,692 4.8 1,084,279 94.2 11,547E 1.0E
             
75 years and over 1,491,287 41,800 2.8 1,420,507 95.3 28,980 1.9
  Males
 589,380 12,383 2.1 564,562 95.8 12,436E 2.1E
  Females
 901,906 29,417 3.3 855,945 94.9 16,544E 1.8E
             

1. Data source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2000/01
2. Population aged 12 and over who have consulted with a health professional about their mental health in the past 12 months.
3. Mental health professionals include: family doctors or general practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers and counsellors.
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 01050063.
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