Description – Chart 3
Percentage of Canadians at selected vitamin D levels, by season1

The title of the graph is "Chart 3 Percentage of Canadians at selected vitamin D levels, by season."
This is a bar clustered chart.
This is a horizontal bar graph, so categories are on the vertical axis and values on the horizontal axis.
There are in total 2 categories in the vertical axis. The horizontal axis starts at 0 and ends at 80 with ticks every 10 points.
There are 3 series in this graph.
The horizontal axis is "Percent."
The vertical axis is "Season."
The title of series 1 is "Deficiency ."
The minimum value is 6 and it corresponds to "Summer (April to October)."
The maximum value is 15 and it corresponds to "Winter (November to March)."
The title of series 2 is "Below vitamin D cut-off."
The minimum value is 25 and it corresponds to "Summer (April to October)."
The maximum value is 40 and it corresponds to "Winter (November to March)."
The title of series 3 is "Above vitamin D cut-off."
The minimum value is 60 and it corresponds to "Winter (November to March)."
The maximum value is 75 and it corresponds to "Summer (April to October)."
This chart has a note which reads "E Use with caution (these data have a coefficient of variation from 16.6% to 33.3%).Notes: 1. Data are from Cycle 2 of the Canadian Health Measures Survey, collected from August 2009 to November 2011.'Deficiency' is a subset of the below vitamin D cut-off category.Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Health Measures Survey."

Chart 3 Percentage of Canadians at selected vitamin D levels, by season¹, Percent
  Deficiency Below vitamin D cut-off Above vitamin D cut-off
Winter (November to March) 15E 40 60
Summer (April to October) 6 25 75

E Use with caution (these data have a coefficient of variation from 16.6% to 33.3%).
Notes: 1. Data are from Cycle 2 of the Canadian Health Measures Survey, collected from August 2009 to November 2011.'Deficiency' is a subset of the below vitamin D cut-off category.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Health Measures Survey.

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