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1.	Data source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2000/01
2.	Population aged 12 and over who have consulted with a medical doctor/pediatrician in the past 12 months.
3.	Pediatrician is included for respondents less than 18 years of age.
4.	Medical doctor includes family or general practitioners as well as specialists such as surgeons, allergists, orthopaedists, gynaecologists, or psychiatrists.
5.	Bootstrapping techniques were used to produce the coefficient of variation (CV) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).
6.	Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) from 16.6% to 33.3% are identified by an (E) and should be interpreted with caution.
7.	Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) greater than 33.3% were suppressed (F) due to extreme sampling variability.
8.	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.
9.	A "peer group" is a grouping of health regions that have similar social and economic characteristics.
10.	In Newfoundland and Labrador, health regions are generally referred to as Health and Community Services (HCS) regions.
11.	In Prince Edward Island, the two health regions divide the province into urban and rural components.
12.	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.
13.	In Nova Scotia, health regions are known as "health zones" and relate to the province's administrative health region boundaries.
14.	In Ontario, Public Health Units (PHU) administer health promotion and disease prevention programs, and District Health Councils (DHC) are advisory, health planning organizations.
15.	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).
16.	In Saskatchewan, "service areas" (SA) have been created from groupings of the 33 health districts.
17.	In Alberta, health regions are referred to as Health Authorities (HA) or Regional Health Authorities (RHA).
18.	In 2002, the British Columbia Ministry of Health revised the health region boundaries, changing from 20 health regions to 16 health service delivery areas (HSDA).
19.	British Columbia's HSDAs are identified with the reference date as part of the health region name; the old health regions are identified with "T" following the code.
20.	Data calculated for British Columbia HSDAs will differ from previously released health region data (where boundaries remain unchanged) due to revised population estimates.
21.	The following symbols are used in Statistics Canada publications: (..) for figures not available and (...) for figures not appropriate or not applicable.
22.	CANSIM table number 01050061

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Contact with medical doctors, by sex, household population aged 12 and over, Canada, provinces, territories, health regions and peer groups, 2000/01