Table 2
Condom use during last sexual intercourse among currently sexually active 15- to 24-year-olds, by number of sexual partners in the past year and selected characteristics, household population, Canada, 2015/2016

Table 2
Condom use during last sexual intercourse among currently sexually active 15- to 24-year-olds, by number of sexual partners in the past year and selected characteristics, household population, Canada, 2015/2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Condom use during last sexual intercourse among currently sexually active 15- to 24-year-olds Used condom during last sexual intercourse, Total, One partner, Multiple partners, % and 95% confidence interval (appearing as column headers).
	Total			One partner			Multiple partners
	Used condom during last sexual intercourse
	%	95% confidence interval		%	95% confidence interval		%	95% confidence interval
	%	from	to	%	from	to	%	from	to
Total, 15- to 24-year-olds	60.1	58.2	62.0	55.9	53.5	58.3	66.3^Note *	63.0	69.5
Sex
Female	54.9^{Table 2 Note ‡}	52.1	57.6	52.1^{Table 2 Note ‡}	48.8	55.3	60.9^{Table 2 Note ‡}^Note *	55.7	65.9
Male^{Table 2 Note †}	65.0	62.2	67.8	60.3	56.6	63.9	70.1^Note *	65.7	74.2
Age group (years)
15 to 17	79.9^{Table 2 Note ‡}	76.0	83.3	81.1^{Table 2 Note ‡}	76.6	84.8	77.4^{Table 2 Note ‡}	69.5	83.7
18 to 19	67.3^{Table 2 Note ‡}	63.1	71.3	65.4^{Table 2 Note ‡}	59.8	70.6	69.9	63.2	75.8
20 to 24^{Table 2 Note †}	55.1	52.6	57.6	49.4	46.4	52.4	63.7^Note *	59.5	67.8
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual^{Table 2 Note †}	60.2	58.2	62.2	56.1	53.6	58.6	66.7^Note *	63.2	70.0
Gay males	52.0^{Note E: Use with caution}	30.8	72.4	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	60.2^{Note E: Use with caution}	31.2	83.5
Lesbians	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Bisexual	63.7	54.4	72.1	58.0	45.0	69.9	68.3	55.3	78.9
Province or Territory
Newfoundland and Labrador	61.1	50.7	70.5	63.2	51.6	73.4	56.3^{Note E: Use with caution}	38.7	72.4
Prince Edward Island	65.7	54.8	75.2	61.6	47.4	74.0	75.5	58.1	87.3
Nova Scotia	67.3	59.3	74.4	66.6^{Table 2 Note ‡}	55.3	76.3	69.4	55.3	80.5
New Brunswick	64.3	54.9	72.7	60.3	47.8	71.7	73.2	56.4	85.2
Quebec	48.0^{Table 2 Note ‡}	44.4	51.7	41.6^{Table 2 Note ‡}	37.1	46.2	59.1^{Table 2 Note ‡}^Note *	52.5	65.4
Ontario	67.0^{Table 2 Note ‡}	63.3	70.6	64.1^{Table 2 Note ‡}	59.2	68.7	69.6	63.8	74.9
Manitoba	66.7	58.3	74.2	63.3	53.4	72.2	73.1	59.0	83.7
Saskatchewan	70.2^{Table 2 Note ‡}	62.2	77.1	65.3	55.0	74.4	78.8^{Table 2 Note ‡}	65.8	87.7
Alberta	57.8	52.6	62.8	53.4	47.1	59.5	67.2^Note *	58.3	75.0
British Columbia	60.3	54.7	65.5	58.0	50.8	64.8	63.9	54.2	72.6
Yukon	64.8	45.2	80.4	62.0^{Note E: Use with caution}	38.5	80.9	68.0^{Note E: Use with caution}	38.9	87.6
Northwest Territories	70.0	57.1	80.4	77.0^{Table 2 Note ‡}	61.3	87.7	56.9^{Note E: Use with caution}	34.3	77.0
Nunavut	57.9	41.6	72.6	53.3^{Note E: Use with caution}	36.3	69.6	68.0^{Note E: Use with caution}	40.0	87.1
Note * significantly different from one partner (p<0.05) Return to note * referrer Note † reference category Return to note † referrer Note ‡ significantly different from reference category or the rest of Canada for provincial or territorial comparisons (i.e., each province or territory compared with the rest of Canada combined, minus the province or territory) (p<0.05) Return to note ‡ referrer ... not applicable E use with caution (>0.15 to ≤0.35) F too unreliable to be published (> 0.35) Notes: The samples used for estimating the prevalence of condom use during last sex among currently sexually active 15- to 24-year-olds numbered 5,979 overall, and 5,935 when stratified by the number of sexual partners (one vs. multiple) in the past year. Females who reported last having sex with a female partner were not asked the condom use question and were therefore excluded from the analysis. Because sexual orientation does not always correlate with behaviour, it is possible that some lesbian women reported last having sex with a male (this is rare, and therefore explains why the corresponding estimates are unreleasable/not presented). Source: 2015/2016 Canadian Community Health Survey.

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Condom use during last sexual intercourse among currently sexually active 15- to 24-year-olds, by number of sexual partners in the past year and selected characteristics, household population, Canada, 2015/2016

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Condom use during last sexual intercourse among currently sexually active 15- to 24-year-olds, by number of sexual partners in the past year and selected characteristics, household population, Canada, 2015/2016