Table 3
Type of home care service by socioeconomic characteristics, households that received formal home care services in the past year, household population, Canada, 2015/2016

Table 3
Type of home care service by socioeconomic characteristics, households that received formal home care services in the past year, household population, Canada, 2015/2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Type of home care service by socioeconomic characteristics. The information is grouped by Characteristic (appearing as row headers), Households that received formal home care services, Home health care (HHC) only, Support only, Both HHC and support, % and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Characteristic Households that received formal home care services
Home health care (HHC) only Support only Both HHC and support
% 95% confidence interval % 95% confidence interval % 95% confidence interval
from to from to from to
Total 48.8 47.1 50.5 32.1 30.5 33.7 19.1 17.8 20.6
Household type
Person living aloneTable 3 Note  28.8 26.3 31.4 45.9 43.1 48.6 25.4 23.1 27.8
Couple alone 56.2Note * 53.1 59.2 25.9Note * 23.3 28.6 18.0Note * 15.9 20.3
Parent(s) with child(ren) under 25 70.0Note * 66.4 73.4 21.2Note * 18.1 24.7 8.7Note * 6.8 11.1
Parent(s) with child(ren) 25 or older 44.0Note * 38.5 49.6 30.5Note * 25.2 36.3 25.5 20.6 31.2
Other 44.7Note * 33.4 56.6 29.2Note E: Use with caution Note * 20.4 40.0 26.0Note E: Use with caution 17.5 36.9
Place of residence
Rural area (less than 1,000) 53.9Note * 50.5 57.3 27.7Note * 24.9 30.8 18.3 16.1 20.8
Small population centre (1,000 to 29,999) 44.4 41.0 47.9 32.8 29.9 35.9 22.7Note * 19.7 26.1
Medium population centre (30,000 to 99,999) 50.5 46.1 55.0 31.8 28.1 35.7 17.7 14.6 21.3
Large urban population centre (100,000 or more)Table 3 Note  47.9 45.4 50.4 33.4 31.0 35.8 18.7 16.7 20.9
Household education
PostsecondaryTable 3 Note  54.2 52.0 56.4 28.4 26.4 30.5 17.4 15.7 19.1
Secondary graduation or less 38.4Note * 35.7 41.2 39.3Note * 36.6 42.1 22.3Note * 19.9 24.9
Main source of household income
Social assistance / OAS / GISTable 3 Note  34.3 30.4 38.4 42.2 38.2 46.3 23.6 20.0 27.5
Other 52.6Note * 50.7 54.6 29.7Note * 27.9 31.5 17.7Note * 16.3 19.2
Household income
$0 to $39,999 37.1Note * 34.6 39.7 39.5Note * 37.1 42.0 23.4Note * 21.3 25.7
$40,000 to $59,999 53.3Note * 49.1 57.4 27.6 24.2 31.2 19.2Note * 16.1 22.7
$60,000 to $79,999 49.1Note * 44.2 54.1 28.7 24.1 33.7 22.2Note * 18.1 26.9
$80,000 or moreTable 3 Note  62.9 59.5 66.1 25.5 22.5 28.7 11.7 9.8 13.9
Dwelling ownership
OwnedTable 3 Note  52.2 50.1 54.3 30.5 28.6 32.6 17.3 15.6 19.0
Rented 42.1 39.1 45.1 35.0 32.3 37.7 23.0 20.5 25.7
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