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Patient satisfaction with most recent family doctor or other physician care received in the past 12 months, by age group and sex, household population aged 15 and over, Canada, 2005


                                              Received family doctor or other physician care in the past 12 months Quality of family doctor or other physician care received rated as excellent or good Very or somewhat satisfied with family doctor or other physician care received
   number % number %
Total, 15 years and over 16,107,394 14,677,579 91.1 14,704,004 91.3
Males 7,148,211 6,528,225 91.3 6,570,962 91.9
Females 8,959,182 8,149,354 91.0 8,133,042 90.8
15 to 19 years 1,289,249 1,159,738 90.0 1,194,571 92.7
Males 593,389 532,888 89.8 555,715 93.7
Females 695,860 626,850 90.1 638,856 91.8
20 to 34 years 3,433,671 2,995,485 87 3,006,509 88
Males 1,335,674 1,167,995 87 1,175,840 88
Females 2,097,997 1,827,490 87 1,830,669 87
20 to 24 years 1,096,536 974,203 88.8 954,724 87.1
Males 432,687 383,309 88.6 378,406 87.5
Females 663,850 590,894 89.0 576,318 86.8
25 to 34 years 2,337,135 2,021,282 86.5 2,051,785 87.8
Males 902,987 784,687 86.9 797,434 88.3
Females 1,434,148 1,236,595 86.2 1,254,350 87.5
35 to 44 years 3,270,926 2,912,604 89.0 2,940,757 89.9
Males 1,516,561 1,354,114 89.3 1,373,632 90.6
Females 1,754,365 1,558,490 88.8 1,567,126 89.3
45 to 64 years 5,392,688 5,018,567 93.1 4,999,796 92.7
Males 2,492,942 2,306,928 92.5 2,314,585 92.8
Females 2,899,746 2,711,639 93.5 2,685,211 92.6
45 to 54 years 3,085,279 2,870,287 93.0 2,868,053 93.0
Males 1,381,652 1,264,450 91.5 1,274,438 92.2
Females 1,703,627 1,605,837 94.3 1,593,615 93.5
55 to 64 years 2,307,410 2,148,279 93.1 2,131,743 92.4
Males 1,111,290 1,042,477 93.8 1,040,147 93.6
Females 1,196,120 1,105,802 92.4 1,091,596 91.3
65 years and over 2,720,860 2,591,186 95.2 2,562,371 94.2
Males 1,209,646 1,166,300 96.4 1,151,189 95.2
Females 1,511,213 1,424,885 94.3 1,411,181 93.4
65 to 74 years 1,548,719 1,480,332 95.6 1,464,151 94.5
Males 731,599 710,470 97.1 698,752 95.5
Females 817,120 769,862 94.2 765,399 93.7
75 years and over 1,172,140 1,110,853 94.8 1,098,219 93.7
Males 478,047 455,830 95.4 452,437 94.6
Females 694,094 655,023 94.4 645,782 93.0

1. Population aged 15 and over who reported receiving health care services from a family doctor, general practitioner or medical specialist during the past 12 months. This excludes services received during a hospital visit and refers to most recent care received from a physician.
2. Population who rate the quality of physician services received as excellent or good, based on the response to the following question: "Thinking of the most recent care received from a physician, how would you rate the quality of the care you received? Would you say it was excellent, good, fair or poor?"
3. Population who report being very or somewhat satisfied with health care services received, based on the response to the following question: "Thinking of the most recent care received from a physician, how satisfied were you with the way physician care was provided? Were you very satisfied, somewhat satisfied, neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, somewhat dissatisfied or very dissatisfied?"
4. Canada and provincial estimates are based on sub-sample weights.
5. The total does not correspond to the sum of the categories published in this table.
6. When comparing estimates, it is important to use confidence intervals to determine if differences between values are statistically significant. Confidence intervals describe sampling variability and give an indication of the precision of a given estimate. Bootstrapping techniques were used to produce the coefficient of variation (CV) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).
7. Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) from 16.6% to 33.3% are identified as follows: (E) use with caution.
8. Data with a coefficient of variation (CV) greater than 33.3% were suppressed due to extreme sampling variability and are identified as follows: (F) too unreliable to be published.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS 3.1), 2005 (CANSIM table 105-0282).