Table 5
Serious problems or disputes in the past 3 years, by type of problem and population group or Indigenous identity, provinces, 2021

Table 5
Serious problems or disputes in the past 3 years, by type of problem and population group or Indigenous identity, provinces, 2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Serious problems or disputes in the past 3 years. The information is grouped by Type of problem (appearing as row headers), Population group or Indigenous identity, Black, First Nations, Métis, or Inuit, Other group designated as visible minority, Non-Indigenous, non-visible minority, percent and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of problem	Population group or Indigenous identity^{Table 5 Note 1}
	Black			First Nations, Métis, or Inuit			Other group designated as visible minority			Non-Indigenous, non-visible minority^{Table 5 Note †}
	percent	95% confidence interval		percent	95% confidence interval		percent	95% confidence interval		percent	95% confidence interval
	percent	from	to	percent	from	to	percent	from	to	percent	from	to
Experienced at least one serious problem	26.1^Note *	20.8	31.9	27.4^Note *	25.7	29.2	18.9	17.0	20.9	17.2	16.4	18.1
A large purchase or service where you did not get what you paid for and the seller did not fix the problem	4.8	2.5	8.3	3.6^Note *	2.9	4.4	2.5	1.8	3.4	2.6	2.3	3.0
Your employer or job, excluding personal injuries	5.1^Note *	2.9	8.3	3.7^Note *	3.0	4.5	1.9	1.3	2.7	2.3	2.0	2.7
A personal injury or serious health issue due to work conditions, in a commercial establishment, in a traffic accident, or any other public place	2.7	1.2	5.2	3.7^Note *	3.0	4.4	2.1	1.5	2.8	1.6	1.3	2.0
Your neighbourhood, such as vandalism, property damage, threats, or excessive noise	3.9	1.7	7.5	5.3^Note *	4.5	6.2	4.0	3.1	5.0	3.8	3.4	4.3
Your house, rent, mortgage, or rent owed to you	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	1.8	1.3	2.3	2.6^Note *	1.9	3.3	1.4	1.1	1.7
Debt, collecting money owed to you, excluding rent and housing issues	7.3^Note *	4.3	11.6	4.4^Note *	3.7	5.3	2.8	2.0	3.7	2.3	2.0	2.7
Obtaining social or housing assistance, old age security or guaranteed income supplement or other government assistance	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	2.6^Note *	2.0	3.2	1.2	0.8	1.9	1.0	0.8	1.2
Obtaining disability assistance	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	1.9^Note *	1.5	2.5	0.6	0.3	1.1	0.9	0.7	1.1
Immigration, refugee status, or sponsoring a family member's application to immigrate to Canada	2.5^Note *	1.1	4.6	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	1.8^Note *	1.2	2.5	0.1	0.1	0.2
Contact with the police or other part of criminal justice system involving being stopped, accused, charged, detained, or arrested	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	2.5^Note *	2.0	3.2	0.9	0.5	1.5	1.2	0.9	1.5
Contact with the police or other part of criminal justice system as a victim or witness of crime	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	3.8^Note *	3.1	4.5	1.2^Note *	0.7	1.8	1.8	1.5	2.2
Breakdown of family or relationship, excluding child custody	3.7	1.8	6.9	3.4^Note *	2.7	4.1	1.4	0.9	2.2	1.7	1.4	2.1
Child custody or other problem involving parental responsibilities	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	2.9^Note *	2.3	3.6	0.8	0.4	1.4	1.1	0.9	1.4
A will or taking care of financial or health issues for a person unable to do so for themselves	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	2.5^Note *	1.9	3.1	1.1	0.7	1.8	1.6	1.4	1.9
Poor or incorrect medical treatment	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	5.1^Note *	4.2	6.0	2.8	2.1	3.8	2.9	2.5	3.3
Civil court proceedings or a letter threatening legal action over a civil matter	2.4	1.1	4.6	1.7	1.2	2.2	1.1	0.6	1.8	1.3	1.0	1.5
Harassment	3.7	1.6	7.2	5.5^Note *	4.7	6.5	2.7	2.0	3.6	2.8	2.4	3.2
Discrimination	8.0^Note *	5.0	12.0	6.5^Note *	5.6	7.5	4.5^Note *	3.6	5.6	2.0	1.6	2.3
Any other issue	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	0.8	0.5	1.1	0.5	0.2	1.1	0.5	0.4	0.7
Did not experience a serious problem	65.4^Note *	59.1	71.4	66.4^Note *	64.5	68.2	73.5	71.3	75.6	75.3	74.3	76.2
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 Information on Indigenous identity and belonging to a population group designated as visible minority is captured in two separate questions. Having separate questions and variables encourages data users to take into account the differences between these groups, including in terms of their history, background, geographic distribution, and current conditions and situations. These distinctions should be considered when collecting data and planning, monitoring, and evaluating programs and services. For the purposes of this report, in order to have a consistent reference category across all sections, the questions on Indigenous identity and population group have been partially combined in order to create the category of “Non-Indigenous, non-visible minority”. This category includes respondents who indicated they were not Indigenous people and provided responses to the question on population group which indicated that they are not a visible minority according to the Employment Equity Act, which is the basis for the current question on population group used in the General Social Survey and the Canadian Legal Problems Survey. Return to note 1 referrer Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Legal Problems Survey, 2021.

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Table 5
Serious problems or disputes in the past 3 years, by type of problem and population group or Indigenous identity, provinces, 2021

Table 5 Serious problems or disputes in the past 3 years, by type of problem and population group or Indigenous identity, provinces, 2021

Table 5
Serious problems or disputes in the past 3 years, by type of problem and population group or Indigenous identity, provinces, 2021