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

Table 4 Reasons for not visiting dentist within the last 3 years of household population aged 12 or older, by immigrant status

	Canadian born residences (n = 2378) (%)#†	Non-Asian immigrants (n = 757) (%)#	Asian immigrants (n = 794) (%)#	Recent Asian immigrants (n = 357) (%)#	Long-term Asian immigrants (n = 438) (%)#
			P < 0.01 **	P < 0.01 **	P < 0.01 **
Cost§	37.07	34.80	20.21^E	16.69^E	23.07^E
Resp. did not think necessary§	25.41	35.40	64.47	71.01	59.13
Other reasons‡§	21.08	16.59	11.79^E	6.78^F	15.88^E
Haven’t got around it§	16.44	13.22^E	3.53^F	5.52^F	1.92^F

†, Reference group
(%) # All percentages are probability weighted
Note: All data are weighted by the rescaled weights. The average of the rescaled weights being 1, many of the data would be fractions.
* Significantly different from Canadian born residences (p < 0.05), using bootstrap.
** Highly significant different from Canadian born residences (p < 0.01), using bootstrap.
E Coefficient of variation between 16.6% and 33.3%. Estimates are considered marginal and associated with high sampling variability.
F Coefficient of variation greater than 33.3%, estimate suppressed.
§ Responses are not mutually exclusive.
‡ Included Haven’t got around to it, dentist did not think necessary, personal/family responsibilities, not available when request dentist, not available in area, transportation problems, did not know where to go, fear, not specified, other (not specified).

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