Table 1B.
Descriptive result of gender related variables in Canadian and European populations in the 2014–2016 surveys in overall and patients with diabetes.
| CCHS | E-HIS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender variables, % | Overall | Diabetes + | P- value ** | Overall | Diabetes + | P- value ** | ||||
| Male | Female | P -value * | Male | Female | P -value * | |||||
| N = 109,659 | N = 4,782 | N = 4,441 | N = 316,333 | N = 11,081 | N = 12,021 | |||||
| Marital status | ||||||||||
| Single | 29.1% | 14.4% | 13.2% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 27.6% | 11.5% | 8.3% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
| Divorced/widowed | 20% | 21.2% | 43.8% | 17.8% | 16.7% | 44.1% | ||||
| Common-law/married | 59.9% | 64.4% | 43% | 54.6% | 71.8% | 47.6% | ||||
| Household size | ||||||||||
| 1 | 27.4% | 30.5% | 45.4% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 18.5% | 19.4% | 34.9% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
| 2 | 35.4% | 52% | 39.4% | 33.9% | 53.1% | 40.6% | ||||
| 3 | 13.7% | 9.1% | 8.2% | 19.5% | 14.3% | 12% | ||||
| 4 | 14.4% | 5.3% | 3.8% | 17.8% | 8.1% | 6.8% | ||||
| 5 & 5+ | 9.1% | 2.9% | 3.2% | 10.3% | 5.2% | 5.6% | ||||
| Education | ||||||||||
| < Secondary | 23% | 26.6% | 31.5% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 14.9% | 27% | 37.8% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
| Secondary | 21.5% | 22% | 22.9% | 56.5% | 53.7% | 48.9% | ||||
| Post-secondary or | 55.6% | 51.4% | 45.7% | 10.1% | 6.6% | 6% | ||||
| Grad | 0% | 0% | 0% | 18.6% | 12.7% | 7.3% | ||||
| Worked last 12 months | ||||||||||
| 61.5% | 44.3% | 33.7% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 47.4% | 24.8% | 15.4% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |
| Occupation type | ||||||||||
| Self employed | 16.1% | 25% | 14.4% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 15.6% | 19.3% | 14.4% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
| Employee | 83.9% | 75% | 85.6% | 84.4% | 80.7% | 85.6% | ||||
| Working hours | ||||||||||
| Part-time | 82% | 15.5% | 27.6% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 16.5% | 9.9% | 29.1% | < 0.001 | 0.033 |
| Full-time | 84.5% | 72.4% | 83.5% | 90.1% | 70.9% | |||||
| Household Income | ||||||||||
| Low | 9.8% | 11.2% | 20% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 39.4% | 36.5% | 52.6% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
| Medium | 35.3% | 43.9% | 47.8% | 20.3% | 20.1% | 21.9% | ||||
| High | 54.8% | 44.9% | 32.2% | 40.3% | 43.5% | 25.5% | ||||
| Absence from work (due to health-related conditions) | ||||||||||
| 1.2% | 11.1% | 14.8% | 0.3 | 0.07 | 33% | 29.9% | 45.2% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |
| Absence from work (due to taking care of someone) | ||||||||||
| 0.2% | 0% | 4.8% | 0.005 | < 0.001 | – | – | – | |||
| Having child (<15 years) | ||||||||||
| – | – | – | – | 23.4% | 9.2% | 9.8% | 0.126 | < 0.001 | ||
| Having child (<12 years) | ||||||||||
| 19.7% | 5.5% | 6.5% | 0.03 | < 0.001 | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Immigrant | ||||||||||
| 15.7% | 17.2% | 16.7% | 0.4 | < 0.001 | 8.5% | 8% | 8.2% | – | 0.056 | |
| Racial group | ||||||||||
| White | 88.1% | 89.8% | 90.4% | 0.4 | < 0.001 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Other | 11.9% | 10.2% | 9.6% | |||||||
| Perceived life stress: stress during the day | ||||||||||
| Not at all | 15.3% | 23.8% | 18.2% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Not very | 25.6% | 25.2% | 24.2% | |||||||
| A bit | 39.6% | 34% | 36.2% | |||||||
| Quite a bit | 16.6% | 13.5% | 17.3% | |||||||
| Extremely | 2.9% | 3.6% | 4.1% | |||||||
| Sense of belonging to community | ||||||||||
| Very weak | 7.2% | 8.2% | 9.5% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Somewhat weak | 22% | 21.3% | 20.5% | |||||||
| Somewhat strong | 50.4% | 47.8% | 46% | |||||||
| Very strong | 20.4% | 22.7% | 24% | |||||||
| House ownership | ||||||||||
| Landlord | 73.6% | 74.4% | 65.1 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Tenant | 26.4% | 25.6% | 34.9 | |||||||
| Parent with child in the house | ||||||||||
| 23.2% | 13.3% | 13.6% | 0.7 | < 0.001 | 33.8% | 52.5% | 36.6% | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |
*P-value: The difference between male and female in diabetes patients.
**P-value: The difference between diabetes and non-diabetes patients.
+: People with diabetes mellitus.