Table 2
Remaining life expectancy at age 25, by sex and selected socioeconomic and demographic variables
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| Category | Total | Men | Women | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Years | 95% confidence interval | Years | 95% confidence interval | Years | 95% confidence interval | ||||
| From | To | From | To | From | To | ||||
| number | |||||||||
| Total | 56.8 | 56.8 | 56.9 | 54.6 | 54.5 | 54.6 | 59.0 | 59.0 | 59.1 |
| Educational attainment | |||||||||
| University degree | 59.8 | 59.7 | 59.9 | 58.6 | 58.5 | 58.8 | 61.8 | 61.6 | 62.1 |
| Postsecondary non-university certificate or diploma | 59.3 | 59.2 | 59.4 | 56.7 | 56.5 | 56.8 | 60.8 | 60.7 | 61.0 |
| High school with or without trades certificate | 57.1 | 57.0 | 57.1 | 54.8 | 54.7 | 54.9 | 59.5 | 59.4 | 59.6 |
| Less than secondary school graduation | 54.4 | 54.3 | 54.4 | 51.9 | 51.8 | 52.0 | 56.8 | 56.7 | 56.9 |
| Difference = university minus less than secondary school | 5.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 6.7 | 6.7 | 6.8 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 5.1 |
| Income adequacy quintile (area) | |||||||||
| 5 (highest) | 58.9 | 58.8 | 59.0 | 57.4 | 57.2 | 57.5 | 60.8 | 60.6 | 60.9 |
| 4 | 57.9 | 57.8 | 58.0 | 55.9 | 55.8 | 56.0 | 60.2 | 60.0 | 60.3 |
| 3 | 57.1 | 57.0 | 57.2 | 55.0 | 54.9 | 55.1 | 59.5 | 59.4 | 59.6 |
| 2 | 56.0 | 55.9 | 56.1 | 53.4 | 53.3 | 53.5 | 58.6 | 58.4 | 58.7 |
| 1 (lowest) | 53.8 | 53.7 | 53.8 | 50.5 | 50.4 | 50.6 | 56.2 | 56.1 | 56.3 |
| Difference = quintile 5 minus quintile 1 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.6 |
| Aboriginal identity | |||||||||
| No Aboriginal identity | 57.1 | 57.1 | 57.2 | 54.9 | 54.9 | 55.0 | 59.3 | 59.2 | 59.3 |
| Any Aboriginal identity | 50.1 | 49.9 | 50.3 | 49.0 | 48.7 | 49.3 | 52.3 | 52.0 | 52.6 |
| North American Indian identity only | 49.7 | 49.4 | 49.9 | 47.5 | 47.2 | 47.9 | 51.8 | 51.5 | 52.2 |
| Métis identity only | 52.9 | 52.4 | 53.4 | 50.7 | 50.1 | 51.3 | 55.2 | 54.5 | 55.9 |
| Inuit identity only | 46.5 | 45.9 | 47.2 | 45.2 | 44.3 | 46.1 | 47.8 | 46.9 | 48.8 |
| Difference = not Aboriginal minus Aboriginal | 7.0 | 7.2 | 6.9 | 5.9 | 5.7 | 6.1 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 7.3 |
| Visible minority status | |||||||||
| Not a visible minority | 56.8 | 56.8 | 56.9 | 54.6 | 54.5 | 54.6 | 59.0 | 59.0 | 59.1 |
| Visible minority | 60.8 | 60.6 | 60.9 | 58.9 | 58.7 | 59.1 | 62.5 | 62.3 | 62.7 |
| Chinese | 61.9 | 61.6 | 62.1 | 59.9 | 59.6 | 60.3 | 63.6 | 63.2 | 64.0 |
| South Asian | 60.0 | 59.7 | 60.4 | 58.9 | 58.3 | 59.4 | 61.4 | 60.9 | 62.0 |
| Black | 59.6 | 59.2 | 60.1 | 57.2 | 56.7 | 57.8 | 61.3 | 60.7 | 61.9 |
| Filipino | 60.1 | 59.6 | 60.6 | 57.4 | 56.7 | 58.2 | 61.9 | 61.2 | 62.6 |
| Latin American | 60.4 | 59.5 | 61.4 | 57.1 | 56.1 | 58.1 | 62.6 | 61.3 | 63.9 |
| Southeast Asian | 61.8 | 60.5 | 63.1 | 59.4 | 58.3 | 60.5 | 63.3 | 61.3 | 65.3 |
| Arab | 59.5 | 58.6 | 60.4 | 57.7 | 56.7 | 58.8 | 62.9 | 61.1 | 64.7 |
| Difference = visible minority minus not visible minority | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| Sources: Statistics Canada, 2001 Canadian census–tax–mortality cohort, derived from the 2001 Census of Population and the 2014 Amalgamated Mortality Database. | |||||||||
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