Appendix Table A.2 Primary type of drinking water consumed by households, Canada, 2006
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| Type of drinking water | Census metropolitan area | Census agglomeration | Rural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver | Toronto | Montreal | Other | |||
| Percent distribution of households | ||||||
| Primarily tap water | 66.3 | 53.4 | 58.7 | 58.0 | 55.3 | 57.1 |
| Combination drinking water1 | 10.2 | 18.8 | 10.2 | 12.4 | 12.2 | 10.6 |
| Primarily bottled water | 23.0 | 26.8 | 30.3 | 28.4 | 31.0 | 29.4 |
| Missing2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| 1.Combination drinking water refers to households which consume tap and bottled water, including other responses. 2. Missing includes Refused or Don't Know responses.Note: All figures are weighted figures. The weighted sample, used for this computation, corresponds to 12,568,539 households. Households which responded Primarily bottled water were not included in the logistic regression analysis. This is because with the Households and the Environment Survey 2006, if a household primarily drank bottled water, the questionnaire did not request whether the tap water was treated. Source: Statistics Canada, Households and the Environment Survey (HES), 2006. |
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