Table 1.
Participant characteristics (weighted proportions)
| All surveys (N=15 019) | |
| Variable | N (%) |
| Sex | |
| Male | 7239 (48.4) |
| Female | 7724 (51.6) |
| Age (numerical) | 48.1±17.2 |
| Age (years) (categorical) | |
| ≤25 | 1808 (12.2) |
| 26–50 | 6138 (41.4) |
| ≥51 | 6897 (46.5) |
| Race/ethnicity | |
| Non-white | 2687 (18.2) |
| White | 12 047 (81.8) |
| Education level | |
| High school or lower | 10 642 (72.3) |
| Graduate or postgraduate degree | 4085 (27.7) |
| Current employment status | |
| Unemployed | 7412 (50.3) |
| Employed | 7338 (49.7) |
| Annual household income | |
| <$60 000/year | 6405 (48.3) |
| ≥$60 000/year | 6853 (51.7) |
| Provincial region | |
| Western* | 4702 (31.3) |
| Ontario | 5762 (38.4) |
| Quebec | 3523 (23.5) |
| Atlantic† | 1032 (6.9) |
| Health-risk condition‡ | |
| No | 8192 (55.4) |
| Yes | 6596 (44.6) |
| Psychiatric disorder§ | |
| No | 10 680 (74.0) |
| Yes | 3747 (26.0) |
| Essential service worker | |
| No | 12 192 (84.1) |
| Yes | 2307 (15.9) |
| Healthcare worker | |
| No | 13 867 (95.6) |
| Yes | 632 (4.4) |
| Parent of children <18 years | |
| No | 11 490 (78.5) |
| Yes | 3145 (21.5) |
| Results of COVID-19 test | |
| Others | 14 702 (99.0) |
| COVID-19 positive | 144 (1.0) |
| History of getting influenza vaccine | |
| <3 times in the past 5 years | 8348 (57.0) |
| ≥3–5 times in the past 5 years | 6304 (43.0) |
*Western provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
†Atlantic provinces: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland/Labrador.
‡Health risk conditions: cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer and other autoimmune diseases.
§Psychiatric disorders: any mood and/or anxiety disorder and dementia.