Table 1
Distribution of socio-demographic, health, health behaviour and hospital experience characteristics, by hospital user category, household population aged 50 to 74, Canada excluding Quebec and territories, 2007 to 2009

Table 1
Distribution of socio-demographic, health, Health behaviour and hospital experience characteristics, by hospital user category, household population aged 50 to 74, Canada excluding Quebec and territories, 2007 to 2009
Table summary
This table displays the results of Distribution of socio-demographic. The information is grouped by Characteristics (appearing as row headers), High users (30 or more days in one year), Non-high users (fewer than 30 days in one year), Not hospitalized, 000s, %, 95% confidence interval and 000s , calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Characteristics	High users (30 or more days in one year)				Non-high users^{Table 1 Note †} (fewer than 30 days in one year)				Not hospitalized
	000s	%	95% confidence interval		000s	%	95% confidence interval		000s	%	95% confidence interval
	000s	%	from	to	000s	%	from	to	000s	%	from	to
Population aged 50 to 74 (number and %)	33.8	0.5	0.4	0.6	416.1	6.2	5.9	6.6	6,253.2	93.3	92.9	93.6
Socio-demographic
Average age (years)	Note ...: not applicable	63.6	61.3	65.8	Note ...: not applicable	62.3	61.9	62.7	Note ...: not applicable	59.6^Note *	59.5	59.7
Sex
Men	17.8	52.8	42.9	62.5	216.7	52.1	49.4	54.7	3,063.0	49.0	48.4	49.5
Women	15.9	47.2	37.5	57.1	199.4	47.9	45.3	50.6	3,190.2	51.0	50.5	51.6
Household income
Not lowest	17.9	53.0	42.4	63.3	273.2	65.6	63.0	68.2	4,567.5	73.0	72.2	73.9
Lowest	15.9	47.0^Note *	36.7	57.6	143.0	34.4	31.8	37.0	1,685.7	27.0^Note *	26.1	27.8
Marital status
With partner	21.2	62.8	53.5	71.2	307.0	74.1	71.7	76.3	4,791.1	76.8	75.9	77.7
No partner	12.6	37.2^Note *	28.8	46.5	107.6	25.9	23.7	28.3	1,446.6	23.2^Note *	22.3	24.1
Health
End of life
Alive full 365 days	26.8	79.5	71.6	85.6	395.9	95.1	94.0	96.0	6,240.0	99.8	99.7	99.8
Died	6.9	20.5^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	14.4	28.4	20.2	4.9	4.0	6.0	13.2	0.2^Note *	0.2	0.3
Incontinence
No	29.5	87.4	81.7	91.5	369.3	88.8	87.2	90.2	5,930.0	94.9	94.6	95.2
Yes	4.3	12.6^{Note E: Use with caution}	8.5	18.3	46.6	11.2	9.8	12.8	317.3	5.1^Note *	4.8	5.4
Mental health condition
No	26.6	78.8	71.2	84.8	352.5	84.8	82.8	86.7	5,555.2	89.0	88.4	89.5
Yes	7.2	21.2	15.2	28.8	63.2	15.2	13.3	17.2	689.2	11.0^Note *	10.5	11.6
Heart disease
No	25.2	74.6	66.1	81.5	341.4	82.3	80.3	84.2	5,760.2	92.4	92.0	92.8
Yes	8.6	25.4	18.5	33.9	73.4	17.7	15.8	19.7	475.6	7.6^Note *	7.2	8.0
Diabetes
No	25.1	74.2	66.6	80.6	331.8	79.8	77.4	82.0	5,548.5	88.8	88.3	89.3
Yes	8.7	25.8	19.4	33.4	84.0	20.2	18.0	22.6	699.3	11.2^Note *	10.7	11.7
Neurological
No	29.4	87.2	80.4	91.9	396.7	95.7	94.5	96.6	6,120.6	98.0	97.8	98.2
Yes	4.3	12.8^{Note E: Use with caution}^Note *	8.1	19.6	18.0	4.3	3.4	5.5	125.2	2.0^Note *	1.8	2.2
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
No	28.7	85.0	77.1	90.6	379.1	91.5	90.1	92.7	6,032.4	96.7	96.5	97.0
Yes	5.0	15.0^{Note E: Use with caution}	9.4	22.9	35.3	8.5	7.3	9.9	202.7	3.3^Note *	3.0	3.5
Health behaviour
Physical activity
Active	6.3	20.1^{Note E: Use with caution}	13.7	28.5	163.2	40.8	38.3	43.5	3,007.5	49.2	48.4	50.1
Inactive	25.2	79.9^Note *	71.5	86.3	236.5	59.2	56.5	61.7	3,101.5	50.8^Note *	49.9	51.6
Body mass index (corrected)
Underweight	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	6.3	1.5^{Note E: Use with caution}	1.0	2.4	47.6	0.8^Note *	0.6	0.9
Normal/Overweight	19.2	57.0	47.4	66.0	237.9	57.2	54.4	59.9	4,174.2	66.8^Note *	66.0	67.5
Obese	11.2	33.2	25.2	42.3	150.4	36.1	33.5	38.8	1,770.7	28.3^Note *	27.6	29.0
Missing	2.8	8.2^{Note E: Use with caution}	5.2	12.6	21.6	5.2	4.1	6.6	260.8	4.2	3.8	4.5
Hospital experience
Charlson comorbidity index score
Average	Note ...: not applicable	0.48^Note *	0.35	0.61	Note ...: not applicable	0.23	0.20	0.25	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
0	21.1	62.4^Note *	51.6	72.1	328.4	78.9	76.6	81.0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
1	12.7	37.6^Note *	27.9	48.4	87.8	21.1	19.0	23.4	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Discharged to long-term care
No	32.3	95.7	92.6	97.5	414.8	99.7	99.4	99.8	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Yes	1.5	4.3^{Note E: Use with caution}	2.5	7.4	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable ^E use with caution F too unreliable to be published Note * significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note † reference category Return to note † referrer Source: 2007 to 2009 Canadian Community Health Surveys linked to 2006/2007 to 2009/2010 Discharge Abstract Database and 2007 to 2010 Canadian Mortality Database.

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Distribution of socio-demographic, health, health behaviour and hospital experience characteristics, by hospital user category, household population aged 50 to 74, Canada excluding Quebec and territories, 2007 to 2009

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Distribution of socio-demographic, health, health behaviour and hospital experience characteristics, by hospital user category, household population aged 50 to 74, Canada excluding Quebec and territories, 2007 to 2009