Table 2
Characteristics of Canadian Marginalization Index and air pollutants (PM2.5, NO2, O3) in three regional datasets, Ontario, 2011 and 2012, Quebec, 2005 and Alberta and British Columbia, 2005


Table 2
Characteristics of Canadian Marginalization Index and air pollutants (PM2.5, NO2, O3) in three regional datasets, Ontario, 2011 and 2012, Quebec, 2005 and Alberta and British Columbia, 2005
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 2 Characteristics of Canadian Marginalization Index and air pollutants (PM2.5. The information is grouped by Characteristics (appearing as row headers), Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia, 2011 data and 2005 data (appearing as column headers).
Characteristics Ontario Quebec Alberta and British Columbia
2011 data 2005 data 2005 data
mean standard deviation minimum maximum mean standard deviation minimum maximum mean standard deviation minimum maximum
Canadian Marginalization Index
Residential instability -0.24 0.73 -1.90 3.19 0.17 0.78 -1.54 3.29 0.03 0.84 -2.35 3.59
Material deprivation -0.14 0.74 -2.18 4.02 0.41 0.90 -2.04 4.54 -0.26 0.64 -2.16 3.93
Dependency 0.20 0.78 -2.72 4.64 0.28 0.88 -2.53 7.02 -0.13 0.97 -2.37 10.19
Ethnic concentration -0.26 0.85 -1.54 6.03 -0.44 0.63 -2.46 3.97 -0.11 0.74 -2.08 4.95
Air pollutants
PM2.5 (μg/m3) 6.45 1.79 2.60 12.00 7.30 2.27 1.66 18.50 5.55 1.31 1.80 9.10
NO2 (ppb) 8.54 4.94 2.02 39.65 12.25 9.78 1.31 56.27 12.21 6.04 0.01 53.69
O3 (ppb) 41.36 4.83 26.74 64.33 36.74 4.69 17.99 47.13 31.29 4.76 9.04 40.63
Notes: Air pollutants include fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3).
Sources: Canadian Community Health Survey content: selected sample of distress module, 2005, 2011 and 2012; Matheson FI, Dunn JR, Smith KL, et al. Development of the Canadian Marginalization Index: a new tool for the study of inequality. Canadian Journal of Public Health 2012; 103(S2): 12-6; van Donkelaar A, Martin RV, Spurr RJ, et al. High-resolution satellite-derived PM2.5 from optical estimation and geographically weighted regression over North America. Environmental Science and Technology 2015; 49: 10482-91; Hystad P, Setton E, Cervantes A, et al. Creating national air pollution models for population exposure assessment in Canada. Environmental Health Perspectives 2011; 119: 1123-9; Robichaud A, Ménard R, Zaïtseva Y, et al. Multi-pollutant surface objective analyses and mapping of air quality health index over North America. Air Quality and Atmospheric Health 2016; 9: 743-59.

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