Table 2.

Rate of unintentional water-related fatality per 100,000 population per year, in Canada, 2008-2012

Characteristica	Rate of water-related fatality per 100 000/year
	All Ages	0–4	5–14	15–19	20–34	35–64	65+
Total	1.41	1.05	0.57	1.27	1.70	1.44	1.74
Sex
Male	2.34	1.45	0.85	2.04	2.96	2.38	3.05
Female	0.49	0.64	0.27	0.46	0.42	0.50	0.69
Body of water
Ocean	0.13	0.01	0.01	0.04	0.12	0.21	0.12
Lake or pond	0.54	0.24	0.21	0.63	0.66	0.55	0.68
Flowing water	0.38	0.09	0.16	0.45	0.63	0.37	0.33
Bathtub	0.13	0.20	0.03	0.04	0.09	0.12	0.28
Pool	0.09	0.44	0.11	0.03	0.05	0.05	0.17
Other	0.13	0.08	0.04	0.07	0.16	0.13	0.16
Urban vs rural
Urban	0.83	0.75	0.36	0.75	0.95	0.82	1.12
Rural	0.57	0.30	0.21	0.52	0.74	0.61	0.61
Time of year
Summer	0.80	0.69	0.44	0.86	1.05	0.76	0.89
Rest of Year	0.57	0.36	0.13	0.37	0.64	0.64	0.82
Type of activity
Aquatic	0.35	0.09	0.31	0.44	0.53	0.30	0.34
Boating	0.37	0	0.06	0.41	0.47	0.43	0.43
Transportation	0.22	0.01	0.06	0.19	0.32	0.26	0.20
Non-aquatic	0.29	0.76	0.11	0.15	0.22	0.27	0.44
Bathing	0.12	0.19	0.03	0.04	0.09	0.11	0.29
Purpose of activity
Recreational	0.87	0.83	0.49	0.97	1.09	0.81	0.99
Occupational	0.07	0	0	0	0.09	0.12	0.05
Daily living	0.35	0.23	0.07	0.23	0.39	0.37	0.58
Rescue attempt	0.02	0	0	0	0.04	0.03	0.01
Alcohol involvement
Alcohol	0.52	0	0.01	0.52	0.87	0.61	0.37
No alcohol	0.70	0.98	0.49	0.62	0.66	0.66	0.99
PFD use while boating
PFD worn	0.07	0	0.03	0.04	0.06	0.10	0.07
PFD not worn	0.29	0	0.04	0.38	0.37	0.32	0.31
Accompaniment
Alone	0.64	0.61	0.07	0.35	0.50	0.71	1.21
With others	0.71	0.40	0.38	0.87	1.15	0.66	0.50
Rescue attempt
Attempted	0.72	1.00	0.45	0.62	0.83	0.71	0.81
Not attempted	0.63	0.05	0.11	0.60	0.77	0.66	0.87

^aSome data missing for most row categories. Categories with more than 10 % missing data were: alcohol involvement (12.7 %) and PFD use while boating (18 %)