Table 1 
Percentage of people who reported having used alcohol, cannabis, cigarettes or an illegal drug in the past year, household population aged 15 and older, Canada, 2019  

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Percentage of people who reported having used alcohol, cannabis, cigarettes or an illegal drug in the past year, household population aged 15 and older, Canada, 2019
  Total population Percent Lower limit of confidence interval (95%)4 Upper limit of confidence interval (95%)4
  thousands of people %%%
Alcohol1 23,697.4 76.5 75.1 77.7
Sex        
Men2 11,971.1 78.3 76.2 80.2
Women 11,726.3 74.73 72.8 76.4
Age group        
15 to 19 years 986.0 46.33 36.8 52.8
20 to 24 years2 1,912.6 84.4 77.0 88.6
25 years and older 20,798.8 78.23 76.3 78.9
Cannabis1 6,410.3 20.7 19.4 22.0
Sex        
Men2 3,490.5 22.8 21.0 24.8
Women 2,919.7 18.63 17.0 20.3
Age group        
15 to 19 years 467.9 21.93 16.0 29.4
20 to 24 years2 1,010.6 44.6 37.1 52.4
25 years and older 4,931.8 18.53 17.4 19.8
Current cigarette smokers 4,236.0 13.7 12.7 14.7
Sex        
Men2 2,380.0 15.6 14.0 17.3
Women 1,856.0 11.83 10.7 13.1
Age group        
15 to 19 years 171.9 8.1 4.6 13.9
20 to 24 years2 315.6 13.9 9.9 19.3
25 years and older 3,748.5 14.1 13.1 15.2
Illegal drug1 1,100.3 3.6 3.0 4.2
Sex        
Men2 628.7 4.1 3.2 5.3
Women 471.6 3.0 2.3 3.9
Age group        
15 to 19 years 65.7 3.13 1.4 6.8
20 to 24 years2 310.2 13.7 9.3 19.7
25 years and older 724.4 2.73 2.2 3.4
Source(s):
Canadian Alcohol and Drugs Survey (5289).

Table note 1

In the past 12 months.

Table note 2

Reference category.

Table note 3

Significantly different from reference category.

Table note 4

These confidence intervals are used to express the precision of the estimates.
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