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. 2023 Nov 9;23:725. doi: 10.1186/s12877-023-04267-5

Table 2.

Sociodemographic characteristics by linguistic group

Characteristics Anglophone Francophone Allophone Total
(N = 409,578) (N = 11,907) (N = 89,200) (N = 510,685)
# % # % # % # %
Sex Female 238,950 58.3 7,250 60.9 54,006 60.5 300,206 58.8
Male 170,628 41.7 4,657 39.1 35,194 39.5 210,479 41.2
Age group  < 50 29,004 7.1 484 4.1 2,508 2.8 31,996 6.3
50–64 67,277 16.4 1,567 13.2 6,798 7.6 75,642 14.8
65 +  313,297 76.5 9,856 82.8 79,894 89.6 403,047 78.9
Immigration Long-term Resident 406,177 99.2 11,828 99.3 80,171 89.9 498,176 97.6
status Immigrant 3,401 0.8 79 0.7 9,029 10.1 12,509 2.4
Highest level of Less than High school 83,484 20.4 4,927 41.4 32,047 35.9 120,458 23.6
education High school completed 68,001 16.6 1,447 12.2 7,077 7.9 76,525 15.0
Some post-secondary 57,775 14.1 1,295 10.9 6,542 7.3 65,612 12.8
Univ./Post-sec completed 43,457 10.6 895 7.5 5,616 6.3 49,968 9.8
Neighborhood Q1 (Lowest) 101,561 24.8 3,350 28.1 24,610 27.6 129,521 25.4
income Q2 88,490 21.6 2,867 24.1 21,384 24.0 112,741 22.1
quintile Q3 77,615 18.9 2,355 19.8 17,541 19.7 97,511 19.1
Q4 71,583 17.5 1,877 15.8 14,659 16.4 88,119 17.3
Q5 (Highest) 69,246 16.9 1,421 11.9 10,791 12.1 81,458 16.0
Area of Urban 348,928 85.2 8,411 70.6 87,527 98.1 444,866 87.1
residence Rural 60,329 14.7 3,477 29.2 1,614 1.8 65,420 12.8
Region of Eastern 28,448 6.9 5,589 46.9 3,485 3.9 37,522 7.3
residencea Northern 31,637 7.7 4,380 36.8 2,430 2.7 38,447 7.5
Southwest 349,492 85.3 1,938 16.3 83,285 93.4 434,715 85.1

aRegions: Northern (Northeast and Northwest LHINs), Eastern (Champlain LHIN), Southwest (remaining 11 LHINs). Ontario is organized in 14 health regions or LHINs (Local Health Integration Network)