Table 1:

Respondent characteristics from the Canadian Community Health Survey by year

Characteristic	Respondents, %*
	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Unweighted no. of respondents	51 280	52 520	52 650	51 790	53 900	53 470	43 870	47 410	48 670	46 340	56 880	36 980	42 630	58 460	49 400
Age, yr
18–29	20.27	20.54	20.52	20.31	20.06	19.78	19.36	18.80	19.05	19.04	18.46	17.51	17.61	17.48	16.91
30–39	16.73	15.61	16.30	16.00	16.40	16.07	16.59	16.90	17.18	17.04	17.66	18.58	17.27	16.81	18.03
40–49	20.31	20.32	18.60	18.31	18.01	17.18	17.70	17.41	16.75	16.64	16.88	16.55	16.89	16.67	16.74
50–59	18.96	19.26	19.35	19.22	19.57	19.75	19.20	19.02	18.43	18.10	17.62	16.51	16.18	16.43	15.34
60–69	13.16	13.29	14.16	14.91	14.42	15.37	15.59	15.84	15.83	16.20	15.74	16.57	17.27	16.44	16.81
70–79	7.23	7.43	7.33	7.62	7.90	8.26	8.14	8.67	9.09	9.28	9.66	10.23	10.44	11.23	11.13
≥ 80	3.33	3.54	3.74	3.62	3.64	3.59	3.43	3.36	3.68	3.70	3.98	4.06	4.34	4.94	5.04
Sex
Female	50.82	50.97	50.78	50.88	50.89	50.77	50.94	51.11	50.98	50.93	50.35	50.24	50.86	51.21	50.79
Male	49.18	49.03	49.22	49.12	49.11	49.23	49.06	48.89	49.02	49.07	49.65	49.76	49.14	48.79	49.21
Race or ethnicity
Asian	9.41	10.30	10.09	11.26	11.21	11.52	10.74	11.60	12.16	12.90	12.72	13.49	14.96	15.35	16.47
Black	2.21	2.18	1.99	2.26	2.43	2.52	2.71	2.27	2.42	2.50	2.76	2.83	3.10	3.77	3.46
White	82.57	80.66	80.57	78.73	78.34	77.89	76.47	76.79	77.15	76.15	74.77	77.52	75.03	74.61	73.49
All others	5.81	6.87	7.35	7.75	8.02	8.06	10.09	9.34	8.26	8.45	9.75	6.16	6.91	6.27	6.58
Province
NL	1.58	1.55	1.53	1.52	1.51	1.56	1.51	1.52	1.51	1.49	1.45	1.46	1.42	1.44	1.41
PEI	0.40	0.42	0.42	0.43	0.42	0.41	0.41	0.42	0.41	0.42	0.42	0.43	0.43	0.45	0.45
NS	2.82	2.83	2.79	2.79	2.71	2.70	2.71	2.70	2.68	2.66	2.63	2.62	2.63	2.69	2.66
NB	2.30	2.24	2.25	2.21	2.18	2.13	2.08	2.14	2.11	2.10	2.03	2.06	2.06	2.12	2.14
QC	23.80	23.81	23.71	23.68	23.61	23.76	23.80	24.15	23.87	23.63	23.67	23.33	22.97	22.55	22.21
ON	38.96	38.93	38.74	38.60	38.50	38.29	38.56	38.05	38.23	38.67	38.73	38.68	38.91	39.26	39.55
MB	3.39	3.34	3.40	3.37	3.41	3.35	3.34	3.31	3.37	3.37	3.37	3.35	3.33	3.31	3.28
SK	2.81	2.88	2.83	2.89	2.89	2.95	2.89	2.96	2.96	2.92	2.92	2.93	2.82	2.82	2.80
AB	10.38	10.70	10.80	11.01	11.07	11.46	11.57	11.50	11.56	11.52	11.56	11.46	11.36	11.24	11.45
BC	13.57	13.30	13.53	13.50	13.71	13.39	13.12	13.25	13.30	13.23	13.21	13.67	14.07	14.12	14.05

^*Unless indicated otherwise. Percentage of respondents weighted to the Canadian target population.