TABLE 1.

Sociodemographic variable definitions

Variable	Variable definition
Age	Age in years
Sex	Sex assigned at birth based on physical reproductive organs (ie, male, female, intersex)
Gender	The gender that a person internally feels (gender identity) and publicly expresses (gender expression). A person’s gender may differ from the sex a person was assigned at birth and it may change over time. Gender may be categorized as man, woman, gender diverse, nonbinary, or in other ways
Income level	Relative income refers to an individual’s income compared with others in society. It is often expressed in terms of income quintiles
Education	An individual’s highest level of educational attainment
Race	A social construct used to categorize people based on skin color and other physical features
Ethnicity	Refers to the cultural group that an individual belongs to (may be connected to race, nationality, language, religion)
Indigeneity	Refers to membership in First Nations, Metis, or Inuk/Inuit populations
Religion	Refers to self-identified affiliation with a religious ideology or group
Immigrant status	Length of time an individual has lived in Canada, including whether they are a refugee, immigrant, or Canadian-born
Primary language	The language(s) that an individual feels most comfortable speaking or reading fluently
Sexual orientation	An individual’s romantic or physical attraction to a specific sex or gender
Housing	The housing situation of an individual, which could include housing tenure (own home, rent, homeless, etc) or inadequate housing (ie, overcrowded, damp)
Disability	Refers to whether an individual has a long-term or recurring physical, mental, sensory, psychiatric, or learning impairment that is considered to be a disadvantage
Health insurance	The extent of an individual’s insurance coverage for prescription drugs, dental care, or other health services
Occupation	What job(s) an individual has to support themselves and their dependents financially