Table 1:

Sociodemographic characteristics of the survey respondents, weighted to the Canadian population of 26.0 million people aged 12 years and older, by ethnicity (2003–2009)

	Ethnicity, %^*
Characteristic	White	Chinese	South Asian	Aboriginal	Black	Filipino	West Asian/Arab	Latin American	Southeast Asian	Korean	Japanese	Multiracial/Other
Unweighted sample, no.	385 800	7355	5778	19 286	4478	2360	2324	2123	1643	884	614	5843
Weighted population, no. (%), 1000s	21 281 (81.8)	877 (3.4)	850 (3.3)	710 (2.8)	562 (2.2)	315 (1.2)	337 (1.3)	281 (1.1)	215 (0.8)	105 (0.4)	48 (0.2)	445 (1.7)
Female sex	51	51	48	52	51	57	45	49	49	53	57	49
Age, yr
12–64	84	90	92	94	94	95	95	96	95	92	80	93
≥ 65	16	10	8	6	6	5	5	4	5	8	20	8
Has a chronic disease	19	11	14	22	15	14	12	12	13	8	13	17
High use of health services^†	22	18	24	26	17	15	19	18	15	14	19	21
Immigration status
Nonimmigrant	88	18	19	98	26	14	15	14	22	19	61	49
Recent immigrant (< 10 yr)	2	32	37	1	25	40	46	36	27	51	19	19
Long-term resident (≥ 11 yr)	10	50	44	1	50	47	40	50	51	31	20	32
Household income^‡
Low	6	11	9	17	16	6	21	15	10	13	5	11
Lower-middle	16	21	26	22	26	21	26	25	23	22	16	19
Upper-middle	32	32	31	30	33	36	28	36	34	37	31	33
High	35	36	34	32	26	37	25	25	33	29	49	37
Level of education
Less than high school	23	19	22	37	24	15	21	20	25	18	12	23
High school	16	16	15	15	15	9	12	17	18	13	17	15
More than high school	61	64	63	48	61	76	67	63	57	69	72	62
Self-reported health status
Good	89	88	90	84	90	92	91	89	91	90	92	90
Poor	11	12	10	16	10	8	9	11	9	10	8	10
Has a regular doctor	86	88	90	77	80	86	77	72	83	78	83	83
Smoking status
Never	35	71	75	28	69	67	58	50	69	61	51	51
Former	42	19	15	31	19	21	24	34	17	23	35	27
Daily or occasional	23	10	10	41	12	12	18	17	14	16	14	22
Married or common-law	60	60	63	49	41	56	54	56	55	55	62	49

↵* Unless otherwise specified.
↵† People who had five or more visits or telephone contacts with a nurse, family physician or medical specialist in one year.
↵‡ Data were missing for 16% of respondents. Income levels were defined previously by Kwong and colleagues. (1)