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Leisure-time physical activity, by age group and sex, household population aged 12 and over, Canada, 2003

Leisure-time  physical activity Total Physically active Moderately active Physically inactive Physical activity, not stated
Number Number % Number % Number % Number %
2003  
Total, 12 years and over 26,578,125 6,949,535 26.1 6,439,632 24.2 12,463,796 46.9 725,162 2.7
Males 13,090,299 3,894,383 29.8 3,085,589 23.6 5,690,422 43.5 419,905 3.2
Females 13,487,826 3,055,152 22.7 3,354,043 24.9 6,773,374 50.2 305,257 2.3
12-19 years 3,316,567 1,568,233 47.3 750,334 22.6 901,589 27.2 96,411 2.9
Males 1,700,772 929,260 54.6 338,774 19.9 372,570 21.9 60,168 3.5
Females 1,615,795 638,973 39.5 411,560 25.5 529,019 32.7 36,243 2.2
12-14 years 1,275,076 637,331 50.0 300,386 23.6 290,480 22.8 46,878 3.7
Males 664,241 366,461 55.2 137,279 20.7 131,386 19.8 29,114 4.4
Females 610,835 270,870 44.3 163,107 26.7 159,094 26.0 17,764 2.9
15-19 years 2,041,491 930,902 45.6 449,947 22.0 611,109 29.9 49,533 2.4
Males 1,036,531 562,799 54.3 201,495 19.4 241,184 23.3 31,054 3.0
Females 1,004,960 368,103 36.6 248,453 24.7 369,925 36.8 18,480 1.8
20-34 years 6,317,776 1,800,856 28.5 1,590,666 25.2 2,818,254 44.6 108,001 1.7
Males 3,166,496 1,060,098 33.5 763,535 24.1 1,278,599 40.4 64,265 2.0
Females 3,151,281 740,758 23.5 827,132 26.2 1,539,655 48.9 43,736 1.4
20-24 years 2,166,912 732,019 33.8 535,216 24.7 854,383 39.4 45,294 2.1
Males 1,111,860 433,866 39.0 269,586 24.2 378,940 34.1 29,469 E 2.7 E
Females 1,055,052 298,153 28.3 265,630 25.2 475,443 45.1 15,826 E 1.5 E
25-34 years 4,150,865 1,068,837 25.7 1,055,450 25.4 1,963,871 47.3 62,707 1.5
Males 2,054,636 626,232 30.5 493,949 24.0 899,659 43.8 34,796 1.7
Females 2,096,229 442,604 21.1 561,502 26.8 1,064,212 50.8 27,911 1.3
35-44 years 5,296,597 1,269,704 24.0 1,302,187 24.6 2,651,907 50.1 72,799 1.4
Males 2,671,810 662,661 24.8 651,710 24.4 1,303,656 48.8 53,782 2.0
Females 2,624,787 607,043 23.1 650,476 24.8 1,348,251 51.4 19,016 E 0.7 E
45-64 years 7,862,039 1,661,164 21.1 1,994,594 25.4 4,038,728 51.4 167,553 2.1
Males 3,891,595 871,378 22.4 954,274 24.5 1,974,474 50.7 91,469 2.4
Females 3,970,443 789,786 19.9 1,040,320 26.2 2,064,254 52.0 76,084 1.9
45-54 years 4,571,406 939,335 20.5 1,192,860 26.1 2,359,852 51.6 79,360 1.7
Males 2,240,920 481,325 21.5 570,894 25.5 1,145,888 51.1 42,812 1.9
Females 2,330,486 458,009 19.7 621,966 26.7 1,213,963 52.1 36,548 1.6
55-64 years 3,290,633 721,829 21.9 801,734 24.4 1,678,876 51.0 88,193 2.7
Males 1,650,676 390,052 23.6 383,380 23.2 828,586 50.2 48,658 2.9
Females 1,639,957 331,777 20.2 418,354 25.5 850,291 51.8 39,536 2.4
65 years and over 3,785,145 649,577 17.2 801,852 21.2 2,053,318 54.2 280,398 7.4
Males 1,659,626 370,986 22.4 377,296 22.7 761,124 45.9 150,220 9.1
Females 2,125,520 278,591 13.1 424,556 20.0 1,292,194 60.8 130,178 6.1
65-74 years 2,182,159 457,444 21.0 522,786 24.0 1,097,786 50.3 104,144 4.8
Males 1,030,238 263,968 25.6 253,057 24.6 451,679 43.8 61,534 6.0
Females 1,151,922 193,477 16.8 269,729 23.4 646,107 56.1 42,610 3.7
75 years and over 1,602,986 192,133 12.0 279,066 17.4 955,532 59.6 176,255 11.0
Males 629,388 107,018 17.0 124,239 19.7 309,444 49.2 88,687 14.1
Females 973,598 85,115 8.7 154,827 15.9 646,088 66.4 87,568 9.0
1. Data source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2003
2. Population aged 12 and over reporting level of physical activity, based on their responses to questions about the frequency, duration and intensity of their participation in leisure-time physical activity.
3. Respondents are classified as active, moderately active or inactive based on an index of average daily physical activity over the past 3 months. For each leisure time physical activity engaged in by the respondent, an average daily energy expenditure is calculated by multiplying the number of times the activity was performed by the average duration of the activity by the energy cost (kilocalories per kilogram of body weight per hour) of the activity. The index is calculated as the sum of the average daily energy expenditures of all activities. Respondents are classified as follows: 3.0 kcal/kg/day or more = physically active; 1.5 - 2.9 kcal/kg/day = moderately active; less than 1.5 kcal per day = inactive.
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 the provincial ministries of health. These are legislated administrative areas in all provinces except Nova Scotia. In Nova Scotia, the Ministry of Health uses statistical "zones" rather than its legislated administrative areas; the zones are aggregations of the nine district health authorities.
8. For complete Canadian coverage, each of the northern territories also represents a health region.
9. The health regions presented in this table are based on boundaries and names in effect as of June 2003.
10. A "peer group" is a grouping of health regions that have similar social and economic characteristics. The nine peer groups are identified by the letters A through I, which are appended to the health region 4-digit code.
11. In Ontario, Public health units (PHU) administer health promotion and disease prevention programs, and District health councils (DHC) are advisory, health planning organizations.
12. In Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, health regions are referred to as Health Authorities (HA) or Regional Health Authorities (RHA).
13. To avoid data suppression, northern regions in Manitoba have been grouped with neighbouring regions, as follows: Churchill Regional Health Authority (4690) is combined with Burntwood Regional Health Authority (4680) and referred to as "Burntwood/Churchill (4685)".
14. To avoid data suppression, northern regions in Saskatchewan have been grouped with neighbouring regions, as follows: Athabasca Health Authority (4713) is combined with Mamawetan Churchill River Regional Health Authority (4711) and Keewatin Yatthé Regional Health Authority (4712) and referred to as "Mamawetan/Keewatin/Athabasca (4714)".
15. The following standard symbols are used in Statistics Canada publications: (..) for figures not available for a specific reference period and (...) for figures not applicable.
16. CANSIM table number 01050233.