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Arthritis/rheumatism, by age group and sex, household population aged 12 and over, Canada, 2000/01

Chronic conditions -
Arthritis/rheumatism
Total population With arthritis/rheumatism Without arthritis/rheumatism Arthritis/rheumatism, not stated
Number Number % Number % Number %
2000/2001              
Total, 12 years and over 25,801,719 3,933,146 15.2 21,843,959 84.7 24,614 0.1
  Males
12,705,415 1,450,969 11.4 11,241,071 88.5 13,376E 0.1E
  Females
13,096,304 2,482,177 19.0 10,602,888 81.0 11,238 0.1
             
12-19 years 3,243,281 35,612 1.1 3,206,434 98.9 F F
  Males
1,662,580 12,016E 0.7E 1,650,010 99.2 F F
  Females
1,580,701 23,596 1.5 1,556,423 98.5 F F
             
12-14 years 1,154,646 4,072E 0.4E 1,149,714 99.6 F F
  Males
601,795 F F 599,532 99.6 F F
  Females
552,851 F F 550,182 99.5 F F
             
15-19 years 2,088,635 31,540 1.5 2,056,720 98.5 F F
  Males
1,060,785 10,089E 1.0E 1,050,478 99.0 F F
  Females
1,027,850 21,450 2.1 1,006,242 97.9 F F
             
20-34 years 6,303,776 260,153 4.1 6,039,122 95.8 F F
  Males
3,191,212 116,715 3.7 3,071,049 96.2 F F
  Females
3,112,564 143,437 4.6 2,968,073 95.4 F F
             
20-24 years 2,130,833 63,488 3.0 2,065,476 96.9 F F
  Males
1,081,580 28,077 2.6 1,052,219 97.3 F F
  Females
1,049,253 35,411 3.4 1,013,257 96.6 F F
             
25-34 years 4,172,944 196,665 4.7 3,973,646 95.2 F F
  Males
2,109,632 88,639 4.2 2,018,830 95.7 F F
  Females
2,063,311 108,026 5.2 1,954,816 94.7 F F
             
35-44 years 5,319,716 466,940 8.8 4,846,777 91.1 5,999E 0.1E
  Males
2,649,765 186,243 7.0 2,460,537 92.9 F F
  Females
2,669,951 280,697 10.5 2,386,240 89.4 F F
             
45-64 years 7,287,155 1,603,113 22.0 5,675,686 77.9 8,356E 0.1E
  Males
3,607,491 609,100 16.9 2,993,751 83.0 4,640E 0.1E
  Females
3,679,663 994,013 27.0 2,681,935 72.9 3,715E 0.1E
             
45-54 years 4,449,730 758,448 17.0 3,686,251 82.8 5,031E 0.1E
  Males
2,197,419 287,913 13.1 1,907,276 86.8 F F
  Females
2,252,312 470,536 20.9 1,778,975 79.0 2,801E 0.1E
             
55-64 years 2,837,424 844,665 29.8 1,989,435 70.1 3,325E 0.1E
  Males
1,410,073 321,187 22.8 1,086,475 77.1 F F
  Females
1,427,352 523,478 36.7 902,960 63.3 F F
             
65 years and over 3,647,791 1,567,328 43.0 2,075,941 56.9 4,522E 0.1E
  Males
1,594,367 526,894 33.0 1,065,723 66.8 F F
  Females
2,053,424 1,040,433 50.7 1,010,218 49.2 2,773E 0.1E
             
65-74 years 2,156,504 859,406 39.9 1,294,881 60.0 2,217E 0.1E
  Males
1,004,986 306,542 30.5 697,574 69.4 F F
  Females
1,151,518 552,864 48.0 597,307 51.9 F F
             
75 years and over 1,491,287 707,922 47.5 781,060 52.4 F F
  Males
589,380 220,352 37.4 368,149 62.5 F F
  Females
901,906 487,570 54.1 412,911 45.8 F F
             

1. Data source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2000/01
2. Population aged 12 and over who report that they have been diagnosed by a health professional as having arthritis or rheumatism.
3. Arthritis/rheumatism includes both rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, but excludes fibromyalgia.
4. Bootstrapping techniques were used to produce the coefficient of variation (CV) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).
5. Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) from 16.6% to 33.3% are identified by an (E) and should be interpreted with caution.
6. Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) greater than 33.3% were suppressed (F) due to extreme sampling variability.
7. Health regions are defined by provincial governments as the areas of responsibility for regional health boards (i.e., legislated) or as regions of interest to health care authorities.
8. A "peer group" is a grouping of health regions that have similar social and economic characteristics.
9. In Newfoundland and Labrador, health regions are generally referred to as Health and Community Services (HCS) regions.
10. In Prince Edward Island, the two health regions divide the province into urban and rural components.
11. Prince Edward Island has defined these health regions for statistical purposes only; they bear no resemblance to the boundaries of the five actual administrative health regions.
12. In Nova Scotia, health regions are known as "health zones" and relate to the province's administrative health region boundaries.
13. In Ontario, Public Health Units (PHU) administer health promotion and disease prevention programs, and District Health Councils (DHC) are advisory, health planning organizations.
14. Because of the small population of Churchill, Manitoba (population: 1,110 in 1996), the Canadian Community Health Survey only collects data for the aggregation of Burntwood/Churchill (regions 4680, 4690).
15. In Saskatchewan, "service areas" (SA) have been created from groupings of the 33 health districts.
16. In Alberta, health regions are referred to as Health Authorities (HA) or Regional Health Authorities (RHA).
17. The following symbols are used in Statistics Canada publications: (..) for figures not available and (...) for figures not appropriate or not applicable.
18. CANSIM table number 01050002.
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