Table 3
Measures of functioning and work characteristics, by sex and chronic pain status, household population aged 12 to 44, Canada, 2007/2008

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  Males Females
Estimated number '000 % 95% confidence interval Estimated number '000 % 95% confidence interval
from to from to
Activity limitation (sometimes/often)
Chronic pain 417 62.4* 59.6 65.2 547 63.3* 61.1 65.5
No chronic pain† 970 14.6 13.9 15.3 980 15.3 14.7 16.0
Activity limitation at home (sometimes/often)
Chronic pain 269 40.2* 37.4 43.0 426 49.2*‡ 46.8 51.6
No chronic pain† 369 5.5 5.1 6.0 459 7.2‡ 6.7 7.7
Activity limitation at school (sometimes/often)
Chronic pain 31 21.3* 16.9 25.8 77 31.8*‡ 27.5 36.2
No chronic pain† 139 5.0 4.4 5.5 191 6.8‡ 6.1 7.5
Activity limitation at work (sometimes/often) (ages 25 to 44)
Chronic pain 198 42.1* 38.5 45.7 227 44.5* 41.7 47.4
No chronic pain† 271 7.0 6.4 7.7 254 7.5 6.9 8.2
Activity limitation - other (sometimes or often)
Chronic pain 300 44.9* 42.0 47.8 411 47.5* 45.2 49.7
No chronic pain† 432 6.5 6.0 7.0 475 7.4‡ 7.0 7.9
Help needed for ADL
Chronic pain 23 3.4* 2.4 4.4 47 5.4*‡ 4.3 6.6
No chronic pain† 28 0.4 0.3 0.6 31 0.5 0.4 0.6
Help needed for IADL (ages 18 to 44)
Chronic pain 85 13.3* 11.2 15.3 180 22.6*‡ 20.4 24.8
No chronic pain† 89 1.6 1.4 1.9 122 2.3‡ 2.0 2.6
Worked at a job last week (ages 25 to 44)
Chronic pain 409 77.5* 74.8 80.2 425 65.3*‡ 62.6 68.0
No chronic pain† 3,420 87.3 86.5 88.1 2,770 71.7‡ 70.6 72.8
Absent from work last week (ages 25 to 44)
Chronic pain 31 5.8 4.3 7.3 48 7.3 6.0 8.7
No chronic pain† 183 4.7 4.2 5.2 339 8.8‡ 8.1 9.5
Did not have a job last week (ages 25 to 44)
Chronic pain 57 10.8* 8.9 12.7 145 22.3*‡ 19.9 24.7
No chronic pain† 297 7.6 6.9 8.2 743 19.2‡ 18.3 20.2
Permanently unable to work (ages 25 to 44)
Chronic pain 31 5.9* 4.6 7.3 33 5.0* 3.9 6.2
No chronic pain† 17E 0.4E 0.3 0.6 12E 0.3E 0.2 0.4
Work stress (ages 25 to 44)
Chronic pain 193 40.3* 36.9 43.6 202 39.2* 36.1 42.3
No chronic pain† 1,132 29.2 28.2 30.3 1,059 31.5‡ 30.3 32.8
Population reporting chronic pain that prevents a few/some/most activities 424 63.5 60.9 66.1 634 73.6‡ 71.4 75.9
Age group
12 to 17†
 13 42.0 32.5 51.4 46 65.6‡ 57.6 73.6
18 to 24
 58 58.0* 50.1 65.9 93 71.9‡ 65.6 78.2
25 to 34
 139 65.7* 61.0 70.3 199 76.7*‡ 72.8 80.6
35 to 44
 215 65.8* 62.1 69.5 297 73.6‡ 70.2 77.1
Number of activities prevented
None
 244 36.5 33.9 39.1 227 26.4‡ 24.1 28.7
A few
 210 31.4 28.9 34.0 316 36.7‡ 34.3 39.0
Some
 126 18.9 16.5 21.3 203 23.6‡ 21.7 25.5
Most
 88 13.1 11.4 14.9 115 13.3 11.8 14.9
Pain intensity
Mild†
 118 45.9 41.4 50.4 165 55.1‡ 50.6 59.6
Moderate
 231 71.5* 67.9 75.2 371 82.3*‡ 79.7 85.0
Severe
 75 85.6* 80.4 90.9 94 89.5* 85.5 93.5
† reference category
* significantly different from estimate for reference category (p<0.05)
‡ significantly different from estimate for males (p<0.05)
E interpret with caution (coefficient of variation 16.6% to 33.3%)
Source: 2007/2008 Canadian Community Health Survey, 24-month file.