5. British Columbia Aboriginal Population E-1 Download PDF (108 Kbytes)
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5.1Introduction E-1
5.2Tobacco Use Status of Aboriginal Population E-1
5.2.1Cigarette Smoking Status E-2
5.2.2Alternate Tobacco Use Status E-3
5.2.3Overall Tobacco Use Status E-6
5.3Social Demographics of Tobacco Use E-8
5.3.1Gender and Age E-8
5.3.2Birthplace and Marital Status E-9
5.3.3Income Adequacy and Education E-10
5.3.4Labour Force Status E-11
5.4Frequency of Cigarette Smoking among Current Smokers E-13
5.4.1Days Smoked in Past Month E-13
5.4.2Cigarettes per Day by Daily Smokers E-15
5.4.3Cigarettes per Day by Non-Daily Smokers E-17
5.5Age of Initiation for Tobacco Use E-19
5.5.1Age of Initiation for Cigarette Smoking E-19
5.5.2Age of Initiation for Cigars, Pipes & Smokeless Tobacco E-20
5.6Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) among Non-Smokers E-23
5.6.1Irritation From Exposure to ETS E-23
5.6.2Overall Exposure to ETS E-24
5.6.3Exposure to ETS at Home E-25
5.6.4Exposure to ETS at Work or School E-32
5.6.5Exposure to ETS in Other Indoor Settings E-33
5.7Demographics of Survey Samples E-36
Introduction
For the purposes of this report, members of the Aboriginal population are defined as anyone who considers the ethnic/cultural background of their parents or grandparents to be Aboriginal which includes Inuit, Eskimo, Metis and First Nations groups. No distinction was made between status vs. non-status, or on-reserve vs. off-reserve.

The results in this report are based on 725 telephone interviews, randomly obtained throughout the course of the survey. The margin of error for a sample size of 725 is ±3.6% nineteen times out of twenty. Information on age and gender proportions for the Aboriginal population were not available. Therefore, the entire provincial sample was weighted to known age and gender proportions (as per Stats Can) and then the Aboriginal sample was tabulated separately.

Comparisons between the Aboriginal population and the entire province are made throughout this report. The reader is reminded that the Aboriginal population is also included in the provincial sample; the samples are not mutually exclusive.


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