Table 3.

Sample Characteristics of Female Respondents by Sexual Orientation (Weighted Percentages)

	Heterosexual	Lesbian	Bisexual	Do not know	χ2 testa
Self-rated physical health					***
Excellent/very good/good	85.60	88.80	67.07	72.42
Fair/poor	14.40	11.20	32.93	27.58
Self-rated mental health
Excellent/very good/good	93.48	93.34	84.09	85.55	**
Fair/poor	6.52	6.66	15.91	14.45
Age (years)
45–54	33.22	43.13	35.60	15.82	***
55–64	31.02	40.00	45.19	26.84
65–74	22.72	12.45	10.64	23.57
≥75	13.05	4.43	8.57	33.76
Household income					***
$19,999 or less	7.82	7.40	29.89	19.63
$20,000–$39,999	18.19	10.16	17.40	20.62
$40,000–$59,999	16.76	19.66	16.20	24.23
$60,000–$79,999	14.84	15.70	9.67	6.82
$80,000–$99,999	10.53	7.47	8.52	9.36
$100,000 or more	31.87	39.60	18.32	19.33
Educationb
Less than high school	15.56	12.59	28.06	33.48	***
High school only	23.66	15.24	21.16	23.49
Some post-secondary	36.69	39.08	29.70	26.34
Bachelor’s degree	16.40	16.71	10.82	14.08
Advanced degree	7.68	16.38	10.27	2.61
Partnershipb					***
Married/common-law	64.99	54.56	39.77	52.18
Divorced/separated/widowed	26.91	13.41	27.14	33.99
Single (never married)	8.11	32.03	33.10	13.82
Raceb					***
White non-Aboriginal	83.20	90.01	87.58	62.33
Nonwhite non-Aboriginal	13.85	8.84	6.95	34.20
Aboriginal	2.95	1.15	5.47	3.46
Province of residence					†
Atlantic—NB, NL, NS, PEI	7.68	4.24	7.30	5.11
Quebec	24.18	30.70	23.89	16.13
Ontario	38.60	42.03	38.97	38.47
Prairies—MB, SK, AB	16.12	7.48	10.97	20.41
British Columbia	13.20	15.40	18.50	19.41
Territories—YT, NT, NU	0.22	0.16	0.37	0.47

Notes: ^aResults from Pearson χ² test. ^bMissing categories are omitted from descriptive tables due to Statistics Canada vetting rules but are included in models presented in Tables 4 and 5.

^† p < .1. *p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001.

Source: Canadian Community Health Survey 2015–2016.