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Prevalence of good health, by age group and other selected characteristics, household population aged 45 or older, Canada, 2009

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Characteristics	45 to 64			65 or older
	%	95% confidence interval		%	95% confidence interval
	%	from	to	%	from	to
Total	76.2	74.9	77.5	55.5	54.3	56.7
Socio-demographic factors
Sex
Men	76.5	74.5	78.4	59.0^*	57.2	60.7
Women^†	75.9	74.1	77.7	52.6	51.1	54.1
Education
Less than secondary graduation	59.0^*	54.1	63.8	46.5^*	44.3	48.8
Secondary graduation^†	71.3	68.2	74.3	54.7	52.0	57.3
Postsecondary graduation	79.1^*	77.7	80.5	60.9^*	59.2	62.6
Lives alone
Yes	70.6^*	67.8	73.2	50.1^*	48.4	51.7
No^†	77.1	75.7	78.5	57.8	56.2	59.3
Number of chronic conditions
None	90.7	89.2	92.0	81.4	78.8	83.7
1	77.9^*	75.4	80.1	74.0^*	71.7	76.2
2	65.9^*	62.5	69.2	62.1^*	59.6	64.6
3	46.6^*	41.9	51.5	48.9^*	46.3	51.6
4 or more	31.8^*	27.4	36.6	26.6^*	24.5	28.8
Health-promoting factors
Smoking status
Current daily smoker/Quit in past 15 years^†	69.7	67.3	72.0	50.3	47.7	53.0
Never smoked daily/Quit for 15 or more years	79.7^*	78.2	81.1	56.7^*	55.4	58.0
Body mass index (BMI)
Obese^†	69.5	66.4	72.4	46.4	43.6	49.3
Not obese	79.1^*	77.7	80.4	59.5^*	58.3	60.8
Sleeps well
Yes	81.2^*	79.9	82.4	61.2^*	59.9	62.5
No^†	59.8	56.5	63.0	40.5	37.9	43.2
Fruit/Vegetable consumption
Five or more times per day	83.2^*	81.6	84.7	62.9^*	61.1	64.7
Less than five times per day^†	72.7	70.9	74.4	52.8	51.4	54.3
Good oral health
Yes	79.3^*	78.0	80.6	58.3^*	57.1	59.5
No^†	54.2	50.2	58.1	34.2	31.2	37.2
Frequent walker
Yes	79.2^*	77.4	80.8	63.4^*	61.7	65.0
No^†	73.8	72.0	75.5	49.0	47.3	50.7
Frequent social participation
Yes	79.2^*	77.8	80.5	59.8^*	58.5	61.1
No^†	68.7	65.8	71.5	43.2	40.8	45.6
Low daily stress
Yes	83.5^*	81.7	85.1	60.7^*	59.2	62.1
No^†	72.5	70.7	74.3	48.8	46.9	50.7
^† reference category; for number of chronic conditions, reference category is previous number ^* signiﬁcantly different from estimate for reference category (p < 0.05) Source: 2009 Canadian Community Health Survey — Healthy Aging.

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Table 2 Prevalence of good health, by age group and other selected characteristics, household population aged 45 or older, Canada, 2009

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Table 2
Prevalence of good health, by age group and other selected characteristics, household population aged 45 or older, Canada, 2009