Canadian Health Measures Survey
The Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) aims to collect important health information through a household interview and direct physical measures at a mobile examination centre (MEC), sometimes referred to as a mobile clinic.
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- Articles and reports: 82-003-X202500600002Description: Oral contraceptives (OCs) have been legally available in Canada since 1969. OCs remain the most common method of reversible contraception in Canada and are among the most commonly used medications by reproductive-aged women in Canada. Using data from the Canadian Health Measures Survey, this study examines the prevalence of, and factors associated with, OC use among non-pregnant, reproductive-aged (15 to 49) women in Canada by sociodemographic characteristics and other factors.Release date: 2025-06-18
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024024Description: This dashboard contains the results of physical measures obtained from the Canadian Health Measures Survey mobile examination centre visit for cycles 1-6.Release date: 2025-04-15
- Journals and periodicals: 82-625-XGeography: CanadaDescription: Health fact sheets will include short, focused, single-theme analysis documents. Over the course of the series, analysis will include topics on: Health conditions, lifestyle, well-being, disability, prevention and detection of disease, deaths, pregnancy and birth, health care services and environmental factors.Release date: 2025-03-26
- Table: 82-570-XGeography: Province or territoryDescription: The Health of Canadians report brings together important health data, both for the population overall and for specific groups, to provide a comprehensive portrait of population health and to shed light on health disparities. It includes key statistics on population health such as health outcomes (e.g., chronic conditions), health behaviours (e.g., exercise, nutrition), access to health care (e.g., unmet health care needs) and determinants of health (e.g., age, income). The Health of Canadians report is meant to be used by our federal, provincial and territorial partners, as well as health professionals, researchers, and policymakers across the country to inform policies and plans, leading to better, more equitable health outcomes for all Canadians.Release date: 2025-03-05
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202506437430Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2025-03-05
- Articles and reports: 82-003-X202500200002Description: The prevalence of Canadian adults with obesity has been steadily increasing over the past four decades. Nine percent of Canadian adults had obesity in 1981, 27.2% had obesity in 2018 and the most recent estimates from 2022 indicate that 30% of Canadian adults have obesity. The purpose of this study is to describe the obesity change pattern among Canadian adults aged 28 to 79 years and to examine associations between obesity history and health outcomes.Release date: 2025-02-19
- Articles and reports: 82-003-X202401200002Description: After six cycles of using the BpTRU (BT) BPM-300 blood pressure (BP) monitor, the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) introduced the OMRON (OM) IntelliSense HEM-907XL BP monitor in Cycle 7. This study assesses differences between BP values measured by both devices in children and youth aged 6 to 17 years and whether equations could be developed to compare BP measurements taken using the two devices.Release date: 2024-12-18
- Articles and reports: 82-003-X202401000001Description: In Cycle 7 (2022), the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) introduced the OMRON (OM) IntelliSense HEM-907XL blood pressure (BP) monitor after using the BpTRU (BT) BPM-300 BP monitor for six cycles. This study assess differences between adult BP values measured by both devices and whether equations could be developed to compare BP measurements taken using the two devices.Release date: 2024-10-16
- Stats in brief: 82-625-X202400100001Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of the prevalence of hypertension in children and youth using the new guidelines. It also examines how the change in guidelines impacted prevalence estimates by comparing estimates based on the older guidelines compared to estimates based on the new guidelines.Release date: 2024-10-10
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023067Description: This infographic details the prevalence of vitamin D inadequacy among the Canadian population aged 3 to 79 by focusing on risk factors as well as behaviours that can reduce the likelihood of low vitamin D.Release date: 2024-07-18
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- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024024Description: This dashboard contains the results of physical measures obtained from the Canadian Health Measures Survey mobile examination centre visit for cycles 1-6.Release date: 2025-04-15
- Table: 82-570-XGeography: Province or territoryDescription: The Health of Canadians report brings together important health data, both for the population overall and for specific groups, to provide a comprehensive portrait of population health and to shed light on health disparities. It includes key statistics on population health such as health outcomes (e.g., chronic conditions), health behaviours (e.g., exercise, nutrition), access to health care (e.g., unmet health care needs) and determinants of health (e.g., age, income). The Health of Canadians report is meant to be used by our federal, provincial and territorial partners, as well as health professionals, researchers, and policymakers across the country to inform policies and plans, leading to better, more equitable health outcomes for all Canadians.Release date: 2025-03-05
- Table: 13-10-0872-01Frequency: OccasionalDescription: Vitamin D status of Canadians aged 3 to 79, by age group and sex. Data was collected between 2007 and 2019 and represents Canadians living in the 10 provinces (territories were excluded).Release date: 2023-11-28
- Table: 13-10-0873-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number and percentage of Canadians aged 20 to 79 with diabetes, prediabetes, as well as diabetes awareness, pharmaceutical treatment and glycemic control among those with diabetes by age group and sex.Release date: 2023-11-20
- Public use microdata: 13-25-0008Description: The Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) Cycle 1 oral health public use microdata file (PUMF) is now available. The PUMF consists of 307 variables from the oral health examination completed as part the CHMS, a subset of variables present or recoded from the master file. Data was collected from 2007 to 2009 from approximately 6,000 people in 15 communities randomly selected across Canada and represents 97% of the Canadian population aged 6 to 79 years old. The Oral Health module of the CHMS is a result of a collaborative partnership between three federal departments: Statistics Canada, Health Canada and the Department of National Defence.Release date: 2023-03-01
- Table: 13-10-0827-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: OccasionalDescription:
Bone health measures of the household population, by sex and age group.
Release date: 2021-10-27 - Table: 13-10-0821-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: OccasionalDescription:
Percentage of Canadiens aged 5-79 who are meeting the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines, by age group and sex.
Release date: 2021-09-01 - Table: 13-10-0324-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Physical fitness measures of the household population, by sex and age group.Release date: 2021-09-01
- Table: 13-10-0338-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Average time spent sedentary, household population by sex and age group.Release date: 2021-09-01
- Table: 13-10-0339-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Average time spent being physically active, household population by sex and age group.Release date: 2021-09-01
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- Articles and reports: 82-003-X202500600002Description: Oral contraceptives (OCs) have been legally available in Canada since 1969. OCs remain the most common method of reversible contraception in Canada and are among the most commonly used medications by reproductive-aged women in Canada. Using data from the Canadian Health Measures Survey, this study examines the prevalence of, and factors associated with, OC use among non-pregnant, reproductive-aged (15 to 49) women in Canada by sociodemographic characteristics and other factors.Release date: 2025-06-18
- Journals and periodicals: 82-625-XGeography: CanadaDescription: Health fact sheets will include short, focused, single-theme analysis documents. Over the course of the series, analysis will include topics on: Health conditions, lifestyle, well-being, disability, prevention and detection of disease, deaths, pregnancy and birth, health care services and environmental factors.Release date: 2025-03-26
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202506437430Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2025-03-05
- Articles and reports: 82-003-X202500200002Description: The prevalence of Canadian adults with obesity has been steadily increasing over the past four decades. Nine percent of Canadian adults had obesity in 1981, 27.2% had obesity in 2018 and the most recent estimates from 2022 indicate that 30% of Canadian adults have obesity. The purpose of this study is to describe the obesity change pattern among Canadian adults aged 28 to 79 years and to examine associations between obesity history and health outcomes.Release date: 2025-02-19
- Articles and reports: 82-003-X202401200002Description: After six cycles of using the BpTRU (BT) BPM-300 blood pressure (BP) monitor, the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) introduced the OMRON (OM) IntelliSense HEM-907XL BP monitor in Cycle 7. This study assesses differences between BP values measured by both devices in children and youth aged 6 to 17 years and whether equations could be developed to compare BP measurements taken using the two devices.Release date: 2024-12-18
- Articles and reports: 82-003-X202401000001Description: In Cycle 7 (2022), the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) introduced the OMRON (OM) IntelliSense HEM-907XL blood pressure (BP) monitor after using the BpTRU (BT) BPM-300 BP monitor for six cycles. This study assess differences between adult BP values measured by both devices and whether equations could be developed to compare BP measurements taken using the two devices.Release date: 2024-10-16
- Stats in brief: 82-625-X202400100001Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of the prevalence of hypertension in children and youth using the new guidelines. It also examines how the change in guidelines impacted prevalence estimates by comparing estimates based on the older guidelines compared to estimates based on the new guidelines.Release date: 2024-10-10
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023067Description: This infographic details the prevalence of vitamin D inadequacy among the Canadian population aged 3 to 79 by focusing on risk factors as well as behaviours that can reduce the likelihood of low vitamin D.Release date: 2024-07-18
- Articles and reports: 82-003-X202400500002Description: The availability of measures to operationalize allostatic load—the cumulative toll on the body of responding to stressor demands—in population health surveys may differ across years or surveys, hampering analyses on the entire sampled population. In this study, the impacts of variable selection and calculation method were evaluated to generate an allostatic load index applicable across all cycles of the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS). CHMS data were used to compare individual and population-level changes in scores for allostatic load indexes in which other commonly used measures were substituted for waist-to-hip ratio. Associations between the various constructs and indicators of socioeconomic position were then assessed to evaluate whether relationships were maintained across indexes.Release date: 2024-05-15
- Articles and reports: 82-003-X202301100002Description: On average, 45% of Canadian adults meet the recommended 150 minutes per week of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Using six combined cycles of the Canadian Health Measures Survey (2007 to 2019), this study examines how the percentage of Canadian males and females aged 18 to 79 years meeting the physical activity recommendation differs across socio-demographic, family arrangement and health factors. The purpose of this paper is to determine how sex, age and family arrangement intersect with known risk factors for physical inactivity to identify groups within the Canadian population most at risk of not meeting the physical activity recommendation.Release date: 2023-11-15
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 11-629-X2016001Description: Introductory video for the survey provided to respondents at the household and posted on the Canadian Health Measures Survey Respondent relations (Statcan) website.Release date: 2016-01-05
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