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Table 14
Cisgender and transgender health risk behaviours, by behaviour, Canada, 2018

Table 14
Cisgender and transgender health risk behaviours, by behaviour, Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Cisgender and transgender health risk behaviours. The information is grouped by Health risk behaviours (appearing as row headers), Cisgender, Transgender, percent and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Health risk behaviours	Cisgender^{Table 14 Note †}^{Table 14 Note 1}			Transgender^{Table 14 Note 2}
	percent^{Table 14 Note 3}	95% confidence interval		percent^{Table 14 Note 3}	95% confidence interval
	percent^{Table 14 Note 3}	from	to	percent^{Table 14 Note 3}	from	to
Binge drinking in the past 12 months	44.0	43.3	44.8	40.3	21.8	60.9
Non-medicinal cannabis use in the past 12 months	16.0	15.4	16.5	30.8	14.4	51.6
Non-prescribed drug use in the past 12 months (other than cannabis)	2.8	2.6	3.1	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published
Used drugs or alcohol to cope
With abuse or violence that occurred in lifetime^{Table 14 Note 4}	10.9	10.4	11.5	35.7^Note *	15.3	52.6
With abuse or violence that occurred in past 12 months^{Table 14 Note 5}	11.5	9.0	14.7	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published
F too unreliable to be published Note * significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note † reference category Return to note † referrer Note 1 Cisgender includes all respondents whose reported gender aligns with their reported sex at birth. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Transgender includes all respondents who reported a gender different from their sex at birth, including those who are non-binary, that is, whose current gender was not reported exclusively as male or female. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Percent calculations include missing or not stated responses. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Percent calculation based on those who reported having been victims of physical or sexual assault (excluding IPV) since the age of 15, or having experienced harsh parenting or physical or sexual abuse during childhood. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Percent calculation based on those who reported having been victims of physical or sexual assault (excluding IPV) in the past 12 months. Return to note 5 referrer Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces.

Date modified:: 2020-09-09