Table 4
Number and percentage of people needing assistance with transportation, 2009

Table 4
Number and percentage of people needing assistance with transportation, 2009
Table summary
This table displays the results of Number and percentage of people needing assistance with transportation. This information is grouped by needs assistance to get to places out of walking distance, men and women (appearing as column headers), calculated using number and percentage as units of measure.
	Needs assistance to get to places out of walking distance
	Men		Women
	number	percentage	number	percentage
Total	99,100	5.0	331,800	13.9‡
Age group
65 to 74 years†	26,100^E	2.3^E	70,400	5.6‡
75 to 84 years	41,800^E	6.5^E*	131,600	16.0*‡
85 to 89 years	21,500^E	15.6^E*	88,400	36.6*‡
90 years or older	9,800^E	28.2^E*	41,400	54.2*‡
Household living arrangement
Lives alone†	24,100^E	6.4^E	136,200	13.6‡
Lives in a couple	62,800^E	4.3^E	102,700	9.4*‡
Lives with children	F	F	36,700^E	28.5*‡
Lives with others	F	F	56,100^E	32.4*‡
Income quintile
Lowest quintile†	34,600^E	7.6^E	125,700	17.1‡
Second quintile	26,900^E	5.9^E	58,600^E	11.4^E*‡
Third quintile	F	F	32,600^E	11.0^E‡
Forth and fifth quintiles	7,900^E	1.8^E	23,200^E	7.9^E*‡
Province
Newfoundland and Labrador	2,200^E	6.8^E	5,900^E	15.4^E‡
Prince Edward Island	F	F	2,100^E	19.2^E‡
Nova Scotia	4,000^E	6.6^E	14,000	18.4‡
New Brunswick	3,700^E	7.8^E	9,900^E	16.7^E‡
Quebec	23,300^E	4.8^E	85,200	14.0‡
Ontario†	34,600^E	4.6^E	137,200	14.9‡
Manitoba	F	F	14,800^E	17.5^E‡
Saskatchewan	F	F	6,500^E	8.5^E*
Alberta	F	F	17,400^E	9.1^E*‡
British Columbia	18,500^E	6.5^E	38,800^E	11.9^E
^E use with caution F too unreliable to be published † reference group * statistically significant difference from the reference group at p < 0.05 ‡ statistically significant difference between men and women at p < 0.05 Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey – Healthy Aging, 2009.

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