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Table 1 Distribution of selected demographic, socio-economic characteristics and lifestyle in household population aged 12 or older, by immigrant status

From: Dental health status, dentist visiting, and dental insurance of Asian immigrants in Canada

Characteristic

Canadian born residences

(n = 26,099) (%) #

Non-Asian immigrants

(n = 6767)

(%)#

Asian immigrants

(n = 5069)

(%)#

Recent Asian immigrants

(n = 1937)

(%)#

Long-term Asian immigrants

(n = 3131)

(%)#

Overall Canadian

(n = 37,935)

(%)#

Age

      

12–19

13.09

4.44

8.02

13.68

4.52E

10.87

20–29

19.45

9.27

16.46

24.47

11.50

17.24

30–39

15.07

15.50

20.21

29.77

14.30

15.84

40–49

16.11

17.33

24.67

21.11

26.87

17.47

50–59

17.75

19.53

15.89

5.63 F

22.23

17.82

60-high

18.54

33.93

14.76

5.35 F

20.58

20.78

Sex

      

Male

48.86

49.67

48.94

47.62

49.75

49.02

Female

51.14

50.32

51.06

52.38

50.25

50.98

Marital status

      

Married/Common-law

53.95

66.87

69.53

64.53

72.62

58.34

Divorced/Separated/Widowed

10.35

15.49

5.73

2.73E

7.58

10.65

Single/Never married

35.70

17.64

24.74

32.74

19.80

31.01

Education(household)

     

Less than secondary

17.37

16.53

14.36

15.51

13.64

16.82

Secondary/

Some secondary

26.64

25.29

22.72

23.20

22.42

25.88

Post-secondary

55.99

58.18

62.92

61.29

63.93

57.31

Household income

     

≤$39,999

18.68

27.05

25.78

31.81

22.05

21.12

$40,000–79,999

30.47

32.66

39.26

41.96

37.59

32.03

≥$80,000

50.86

40.30

34.96

26.23

40.36

46.85

Smoking status

      

Current smoker

20.32

13.90

8.97

10.04

8.31

17.66

Non-smoker

79.68

86.10

91.03

89.96

91.69

82.34

Diabetes

      

Yes

5.35

7.56

7.76

3.06E

10.66

6.07

No

94.65

92.44

92.24

96.94

89.34

93.93

Heavy drinker

      

Yes

15.18

6.54

2.64E

2.36 F

2.81E

11.96

No

84.82

93.46

97.36

97.64

97.19

88.04

Knowledge of official languages

     

Either English/French

NA

95.62

93.62

91.25

95.09

29.57

Neither English/French

NA

4.38

6.38E

8.75E

4.91E

1.63

Frequency of brush teeth

     

≥ 2/day

79.39

82.20

86.64

83.35

88.68

80.86

< 2/day

20.54

17.59

13.36

16.65

11.32

19.05

Others‡

0.07E

0.21 F

0

0

0

0.09

  1. Data source: Canadian Community Healthy Survey annual data 2012,2013,2014
  2. (%) #All percentages are probability weighted
  3. n = weighted sample size. (Note: All data are weighted by the rescaled weights. The average of the rescaled weights being 1, many of the data would be fractions)
  4. Abbreviations: NA, not applicable
  5. E, Coefficient of variation between 16.6% and 33.3%. Estimates are considered marginal and associated with high sampling variability
  6. F, Coefficient of variation greater than 33.3%, estimate suppressed
  7. ‡Others included don’t know/refusal/not stated