Table 1
Women and men aged 15 and over, by degree of difficulty with functional health components and activity limitations status, Canada, 2009

Table 1
Women and men aged 15 and over, by degree of difficulty with functional health components and activity limitations status, Canada, 2009
 Table summary
 This table displays the results of women and men aged 15 and over. The information is grouped by functional health component appearing as row headers, women, men, with activity limitations, without activity limitations appearing as column headers, calculated using score and percentage as a unit of measure.
Functional health component Women Men
With
activity
limitations		 Without
activity
limitations		 With
activity
limitations		 Without
activity
limitations
score
Health Utility Index score1 0.57* 0.91 0.61* 0.92
percentage
Pain
Prevents most activities 20.6* 0.6 20.3* 0.6
Prevents some activities 37.8* 8.0 27.3* 5.7
Pain does not prevent activities 4.5 4.7 6.6* 4.8
No pain or discomfort 37.1* 86.7 45.8* 89.0
Cognition
Very difficult to remember or think 7.5* 1.3 8.7* 1.1
Somewhat forgetful and some difficulty thinking 14.5* 4.5 12.3* 4.4
Somewhat forgetful or some difficulty thinking 24.8* 18.6 26.8* 19.2
Able to remember and think 53.2* 75.6 52.2* 75.3
Emotional health
Somewhat to very unhappy 11.5* 2.1 13.4* 2.2
Somewhat happy 26.6* 17.3 27.7* 19.0
Happy and interested in life 61.9* 80.6 58.9* 78.8
Mobility
Cannot walk at all 2.4 F 1.7 x
Need wheelchair or help from people 8.2* 0.2E 4.2 F
Difficulty walking 18.5* 1.2 14.5* 0.8
Able to walk without difficulty 71.0* 98.6 79.5* 99.1
Hearing
Unable to hear F F 0.4E x
Able to hear with hearing aid 8.9* 1.7 16.9* 2.1
Able to hear well 90.6* 98.3 82.8* 97.9
Vision
Unable to see even with lenses 2.1 F 1.5E* 0S
Unable to see close or distance even with lenses 2.9* 0.7 2.5* 0.4
Able to see well with or without lenses 95.0* 99.3 95.9* 99.5
Dexterity
Need help with tasks 2.1* 0.1E 2.5E F
Some limitations but no help needed 1.5* 0.2E 0.8E* 0.1E
Full use of hands and fingers 96.3* 99.7 96.7* 99.8
Speech
Able to be partially understood 2.2* 0.3E 3.9* 0.3
Able to be well understood 97.8* 99.7 96.1* 99.7
x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
E use with caution
F too unreliable to be published
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
* statistically significant difference from same sex without activity limitations at p < 0.05
1. The Health Utility Index produces a score ranging from 1 (perfect health), through 0 (health status equal to death). A score of 0.8 to 1.0 indicates "good to full" functional health; a score below 0.8 indicates "moderate to poor" functional health.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2009.
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