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Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of Ontarians who completed CCHS Cycle 1.1 (2000–2001) to CCHS 2012 (unweighted frequencies)

From: Ascertaining the Francophone population in Ontario: validating the language variable in health data

	Total population		French-speakers
	Total population		by FOLS*		by LOSH
	(n = 198,509)		(n = 10,036)		(n = 6,040)
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Age group
< 18	18,940	9.5	684	6.8	479	7.9
18–49	87,619	44.1	3,941	39.3	2382	39.4
50–59	30,629	15.4	1,905	19.0	1101	18.2
60–69	28,435	14.3	1,783	17.8	1066	17.6
70–79	21,501	10.8	1,207	12.0	710	11.8
80–89	10,340	5.2	472	4.7	272	4.5
90+	1,045	0.5	44	0.4	30	0.5
Sex
Male	90,779	45.7	4,236	42.2	2500	41.4
Female	107,730	54.3	5,800	57.8	3540	58.6
Urban and Rural Areas
Urban	154,269	77.7	7,366	73.4	4260	70.5
Rural	44,240	22.3	2,670	26.6	1780	29.5
Immigrant
Yes	38,441	19.4	448	4.5	307	5.1
No	159,689	80.6	9,583	95.5	5731	94.9
Marital status
Married	91,967	46.4	4,618	46.1	2757	45.6
Common-law	11,256	5.7	921	9.2	528	8.7
Widowed	19,436	9.8	1,159	11.6	681	11.3
Separated	6,750	3.4	452	4.5	251	4.2
Divorced	12,343	6.2	636	6.3	333	5.5
Single, never married	56,642	28.6	2,243	22.4	1487	24.6
Highest level/education
< Second. School Grad.	52,051	26.4	3,041	30.5	1942	32.2
Secondary School Grad.	35,645	18.1	1,480	14.8	837	13.9
Some Post-secondary	13,172	6.7	573	5.7	297	4.9
Post-Secondary Grad.	96,350	48.9	4,889	49.0	2928	48.5
Household income
Quintile 1	23,228	18.9	700	20.6	906	15.0
Quintile 2	23,328	18.9	678	17.9	784	13.0
Quintile 3	24,700	20.1	692	18.9	814	13.5
Quintile 4	25,006	20.3	690	19.9	906	15.0
Quintile 5	26,869	21.8	784	22.7	1015	16.8

CCHS: Canadian Community Health Survey, FOLS: First official language spoken
^* Redefined for cycles 2003 to 2009, based on Statistics Canada definition of FOLS introduced in 2011 (Ref. 25)

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