Table A
Percentage reporting frequent screen time, by sex and selected characteristics, household population aged 20 years or older, Canada, 2007

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  View television15 or more hours per week Use computers11 or more hours per week
Men Women Men Women
% %
Total 29.5 28.9 17.4 12.3‡
Age group
20 to 24 19.8* 20.3* 33.4* 26.4*‡
25 to 34 23.4* 21.4* 25.3* 16.8*‡
35 to 44 24.0 19.1*‡ 16.0* 11.7‡
45 to 54† 27.4 24.8 12.7 9.9‡
55 to 64 36.6* 35.5* 11.5 9.8‡
65 to 74 44.6* 49.1*‡ 14.0 8.7‡
75 or older 50.2* 53.4* 9.1* 3.8*‡
Marital status (age 25 to 54 years)
Married/Common-law† 23.5 21.0‡ 14.9 10.9‡
Divorced/Separated/Widowed 28.0 22.5‡ 15.7 13.1
Never married 28.7* 24.7*‡ 27.3* 19.6*‡
Education
Less than secondary graduation 45.4* 49.2*‡ 7.3* 6.3*
Secondary graduation 33.6* 33.9* 14.0* 9.8*‡
Some postsecondary 29.9* 31.2* 19.3 17.0
Postsecondary graduation† 25.1 22.2‡ 20.3 13.9‡
Household income quintile
1 (lowest) 40.3* 38.6* 18.1 14.2‡
2 31.4 31.5* 18.2 12.6‡
3† 29.3 26.8 16.5 11.5‡
4 26.4 23.7‡ 19.0 12.3‡
5 (highest) 24.1* 19.4*‡ 16.3 11.3‡
Urban/Rural status
Rural† 31.1 30.8 10.8 9.3
Urban: population less than 30,000 33.2 31.3 12.7 12.1*
Urban: population 30,000 to 99,999 34.2 36.1* 16.9* 13.3*‡
Urban: population 100,000 to 499,999 31.5 32.5 18.2* 13.3*‡
Urban: population 500,000 or more 26.8* 25.5* 20.6* 12.9*‡
Immigrant status
Immigrant: 0 to 9 years in Canada 15.3* 22.0*‡ 30.3* 25.3*
Immigrant: 10 to 19 years in Canada 25.1 23.8* 29.1* 13.8‡
Immigrant: 20 or more years in Canada 32.0 31.1 13.3* 7.9*‡
Canadian-born† 30.6 29.6 16.4 11.9‡
Employment status (age 25 to 54 years)
Employment full-time 22.6* 18.4*‡ 16.4* 10.5*‡
Employment part-time 31.2* 22.7*‡ 30.3 13.1*‡
Not employed† 44.7 33.9‡ 27.6 20.0‡
† reference category
* significantly different from estimate for reference category (p < 0.05)
‡ significantly different from estimate for men (p < 0.05)
Source: 2007 Canadian Community Health Survey.