Table 1
Women and men aged 15 and over, by degree of difficulty with functional health components and activity limitations status, Canada, 2009
Functional health component | Women | Men | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
With activity limitations |
Without activity limitations |
With activity limitations |
Without activity limitations |
|
score | ||||
Health Utility Index score1 | 0.57* | 0.91 | 0.61* | 0.92 |
percentage | ||||
Pain | ||||
Prevents most activities | 20.6* | 0.6 | 20.3* | 0.6 |
Prevents some activities | 37.8* | 8.0 | 27.3* | 5.7 |
Pain does not prevent activities | 4.5 | 4.7 | 6.6* | 4.8 |
No pain or discomfort | 37.1* | 86.7 | 45.8* | 89.0 |
Cognition | ||||
Very difficult to remember or think | 7.5* | 1.3 | 8.7* | 1.1 |
Somewhat forgetful and some difficulty thinking | 14.5* | 4.5 | 12.3* | 4.4 |
Somewhat forgetful or some difficulty thinking | 24.8* | 18.6 | 26.8* | 19.2 |
Able to remember and think | 53.2* | 75.6 | 52.2* | 75.3 |
Emotional health | ||||
Somewhat to very unhappy | 11.5* | 2.1 | 13.4* | 2.2 |
Somewhat happy | 26.6* | 17.3 | 27.7* | 19.0 |
Happy and interested in life | 61.9* | 80.6 | 58.9* | 78.8 |
Mobility | ||||
Cannot walk at all | 2.4 | F | 1.7 | x |
Need wheelchair or help from people | 8.2* | 0.2E | 4.2 | F |
Difficulty walking | 18.5* | 1.2 | 14.5* | 0.8 |
Able to walk without difficulty | 71.0* | 98.6 | 79.5* | 99.1 |
Hearing | ||||
Unable to hear | F | F | 0.4E | x |
Able to hear with hearing aid | 8.9* | 1.7 | 16.9* | 2.1 |
Able to hear well | 90.6* | 98.3 | 82.8* | 97.9 |
Vision | ||||
Unable to see even with lenses | 2.1 | F | 1.5E* | 0S |
Unable to see close or distance even with lenses | 2.9* | 0.7 | 2.5* | 0.4 |
Able to see well with or without lenses | 95.0* | 99.3 | 95.9* | 99.5 |
Dexterity | ||||
Need help with tasks | 2.1* | 0.1E | 2.5E | F |
Some limitations but no help needed | 1.5* | 0.2E | 0.8E* | 0.1E |
Full use of hands and fingers | 96.3* | 99.7 | 96.7* | 99.8 |
Speech | ||||
Able to be partially understood | 2.2* | 0.3E | 3.9* | 0.3 |
Able to be well understood | 97.8* | 99.7 | 96.1* | 99.7 |
x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act E use with caution F too unreliable to be published 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded * statistically significant difference from same sex without activity limitations at p < 0.05 1. The Health Utility Index produces a score ranging from 1 (perfect health), through 0 (health status equal to death). A score of 0.8 to 1.0 indicates "good to full" functional health; a score below 0.8 indicates "moderate to poor" functional health. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2009. |
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