Table 1
Percentage distribution of selected socio-demographic and health characteristics, by number of chronic conditions, household population aged 40 or older,Note  Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, 2012

Table 1
Percentage distribution of selected socio-demographic and health characteristics, by number of chronic conditions, household population aged 40 or older, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, 2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of Percentage distribution of selected socio-demographic and health characteristics. The information is grouped by Characteristics (appearing as row headers), Number of chronic conditions, Total, One, Two or more, % and 95% confidence interval (appearing as column headers).
Characteristics Number of chronic conditions
Total One Two or more
% 95% confidence interval % 95% confidence interval % 95% confidence interval
from to from to from to
Total 100.0 Note ...: not applicable ... 67.8 64.8 70.8 32.2 29.2 35.2
Sex  
Men 49.9 46.0 53.8 47.9 43.1 52.7 54.2 48.0 60.4
Women 50.1 46.2 54.0 52.1 47.3 56.9 45.8 39.6 52.0
Age group (years)  
40 to 64 48.8 45.7 52.1 54.4 50.3 58.5 37.2 31.1 43.4
65 to 74 26.9 23.9 29.8 25.4 21.7 29.0 30.0 24.7 35.4
75 or older 24.3 21.5 27.0 20.2 16.9 23.6 32.7 27.0 38.4
Marital status  
Married/Common-law 66.9 63.2 70.6 69.2 64.7 73.7 62.2 56.6 67.8
Widowed/Separated/Divorced/Never married 33.1 29.4 36.8 30.8 26.3 35.3 37.8 32.2 43.4
Ethnicity  
White 86.7 83.5 89.9 87.3 83.2 91.4 85.4 80.6 90.1
Aboriginal 4.2 2.9 5.5 3.3 1.8 4.9 6.0 3.3 8.7
Other 9.1 6.0 12.2 9.4 5.3 13.4 8.7 4.6 12.7
Education  
Less than secondary graduation 21.3 18.6 24.1 18.7 15.5 21.9 26.8 21.6 32.0
Secondary graduation/Some postsecondary 22.0 18.9 25.1 22.3 18.3 26.2 21.5 16.2 26.8
Postsecondary graduation (less than bachelor's degree) 37.7 33.9 41.5 37.1 32.2 42.0 38.8 33.0 44.6
Bachelor's degree or higher 19.0 15.6 22.4 21.9 17.3 26.5 12.9 9.1 16.7
Household income  
Less than $30,000 21.8 18.9 24.7 18.5 15.2 21.8 28.6 23.1 34.1
$30,000 to $54,999 27.4 24.3 30.4 23.8 20.2 27.3 34.9 29.5 40.4
$55,000 to $94,999 24.9 21.5 28.4 27.0 22.4 31.6 20.6 15.7 25.4
$95,000 or more 26.0 22.3 29.6 30.7 25.8 35.6 15.9 11.4 20.4
Location  
Urban 82.5 79.5 85.4 82.9 79.1 86.6 81.7 77.5 85.9
Rural 17.5 14.6 20.5 17.1 13.4 20.9 18.3 14.1 22.5
Province of residence  
British Columbia 44.5 41.3 47.7 43.8 39.2 48.4 46.0 40.7 51.3
Alberta 31.7 28.8 34.6 33.9 29.8 37.9 27.0 22.5 31.6
Saskatchewan 10.8 9.4 12.1 9.7 8.0 11.5 13.0 9.7 16.2
Manitoba 13.0 11.1 15.0 12.6 9.9 15.4 14.0 10.1 17.9
Body mass index category (corrected for self-report biasNote23)  
Normal/Underweight (less than 25) 23.3 19.8 26.7 24.7 20.3 29.2 20.0 14.7 25.4
Overweight (25 to 29.9) 36.7 32.5 40.8 38.0 32.9 43.2 33.7 27.6 29.9
Obese (30 or more) 40.1 36.2 44.0 37.2 32.2 42.3 46.2 40.1 52.3
Health literacyNote24  
Adequate 84.8 81.9 87.7 89.0 86.0 92.0 75.7 70.0 81.5
Inadequate 15.2 12.3 18.1 11.0 8.0 14.0 24.3 18.5 30.0
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