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Contact with health professionals about mental health, by sex, household population aged 12 and over, territories, 1994/95-1996/97

Contact with health professionals   about mental health Total population for the variable 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 %
1994/1995  
Territories 65,228 4,442 6.8 57,523 88.2 3,263 5.0
Males 33,977 1,542 E 4.5 E 30,099 88.6 2,336 6.9
Females 31,251 2,900 9.3 27,424 87.8 927 E 3.0 E
Yukon Territory 20,759 1,272 6.1 18,736 90.3 750 E 3.6 E
Males 10,832 364 E 3.4 E 9,980 92.1 488 E 4.5 E
Females 9,927 908 9.1 8,757 88.2 263 E 2.6 E
Northwest Territories including Nunavut 44,469 3,170 7.1 38,787 87.2 2,513 5.7
Males 23,145 1,177 E 5.1 E 20,120 86.9 1,848 E 8.0
Females 21,324 1,993 E 9.3 E 18,667 87.5 665 E 3.1 E
Northwest Territories 28,228 2,110 E 7.5 E 24,553 87.0 1,565 E 5.5 E
Males 14,692 767 E 5.2 E 12,677 86.3 1,247 E 8.5 E
Females 13,536 1,343 E 9.9 E 11,876 87.7 F F
Nunavut 16,241 1,060 E 6.5 E 14,234 87.6 948 E 5.8 E
Males 8,453 F F 7,442 88.0 601 E 7.1 E
Females 7,788 650 E 8.3 E 6,791 87.2 F F
1996/1997  
Territories 69,142 5,409 7.8 59,179 85.6 4,555 6.6
Males 36,228 1,904 E 5.3 E 31,568 87.1 2,757 E 7.6
Females 32,914 3,505 10.6 27,611 83.9 1,798 E 5.5 E
Yukon Territory 22,408 1,568 7.0 20,552 91.7 F F
Males 11,625 475 E 4.1 E 11,052 95.1 F F
Females 10,782 1,093 E 10.1 9,499 88.1 F F
Northwest Territories including Nunavut 46,734 3,841 8.2 38,627 82.7 4,266 9.1
Males 24,603 1,429 E 5.8 E 20,516 83.4 2,659 E 10.8
Females 22,131 2,412 E 10.9 E 18,111 81.8 1,607 E 7.3 E
Northwest Territories 30,344 2,587 E 8.5 E 25,451 83.9 2,305 E 7.6 E
Males 15,880 F 6.3 E 13,444 84.7 1,440 E 9.1 E
Females 14,464 1,592 E 11.0 E 12,007 83.0 F 6.0 E
Nunavut 16,390 1,254 E 7.6 E 13,176 80.4 1,961 E 12.0
Males 8,723 F 5.0 E 7,072 81.1 1,219 E 14.0 E
Females 7,667 821 E 10.7 E 6,104 79.6 742 E 9.7 E
1. Data source: Statistics Canada, National Population Health Survey, 1994/95 and 1996/97, cross sectional sample, health file, North component
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. Nunavut and the Northwest Territories (excluding Nunavut) came into existence on April 1, 1999. However, to facilitate comparison of data from the National Population Health Survey - North component with data published by other health surveys or projects, data for these two territories are shown separately "Northwest Territories" and "Nunavut" and combined "Northwest Territories including Nunavut".
8. Comparable data are not available for 1998/99.
9. CANSIM table number 01045063.
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