Table 2
Characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease deaths, by sex and underlying and contributing cause, Canada, 2004 to 2011 Table 2
Characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease deaths, by sex and underlying and contributing cause, Canada, 2004 to 2011

Table 2
Characteristics of Alzheimer's disease deaths, by sex and underlying and contributing cause, Canada 2004 to 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of Characteristics of Alzheimer's disease deaths Underlying cause and Contributing cause, calculated using Both sexes, Men and Women units of measure (appearing as column headers).
	Both sexes	Men	Women	Both sexes	Men	Women
	Underlying cause			Contributing cause
Average age at death (years)	85.9	83.7	86.9	85.5	84.0	86.3
Number of other causes (%)
0	18.5	15.1	20.0	16.0	14.8	16.7
1	29.9	29.8	29.9	27.8	27.2	28.1
2	23.7	24.8	23.2	24.5	24.4	24.5
3	14.1	15.2	13.7	15.2	15.8	14.9
4	7.3	8.1	7.0	8.3	9.1	7.8
5+	6.5	6.9	6.3	8.3	8.8	8.0
Average number of other contributing causes of death	1.9	2.0	1.8	2.1	2.1	2.0
Alzheimer's disease deaths out of all deaths (%)	2.6	1.5	3.7	1.73	1.2	2.2
Source: Multiple-Cause-of-Death file, 2004 to 2011.

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