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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the 455 864 identified immigrant women in the cohort who were aged 18-66 on January 1, 2006 by region of origin.

From: Predictors of low cervical cancer screening among immigrant women in Ontario, Canada

 

East Asia &Pacific

Eastern Europe & Central Asia

Latin America & Caribbean

Middle East & North Africa

South Asia

Sub-Saharan Africa

USA, Australia & New Zealand

Western Europe

All identified Immigrants

n

128 965

67 845

70 184

33 649

88 107

26 125

10 003

30 167

455 864

SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS

Mean age (SD)

40.6 (11.3)

39.5 (11.8)

38.8 (11.8)

37.2 (12.1)

38.6 (11.8)

37.1 (10.9)

39.7 (11.8)

38.7 (11.5)

39.2 (11.7)

Age category, No. (%):

18-34 years

37 321 (28.9)

22 413 (33.0)

25 852 (36.8)

14 333 (42.6)

35 565 (40.4)

10 428 (39.9)

3 043 (30.4)

10 382 (34.4)

159 581 (35.0)

35-49 years

63 857 (49.5)

3 137 (45.9)

30 936 (44.1)

13 743 (40.8)

35 904 (40.8)

12 377 (47.4)

4 903 (49.0)

14 596 (48.4)

207 836 (45.6)

50-66 years

27 787 (21.6)

14 295 (21.1)

13 396 (19.1)

5 573 (16.6)

16 638 (18.9)

3 320 (12.7)

2 057 (20.6)

5 189 (17.2)

88 447 (19.4)

Income Quintile, No. (%)

Q1 (lowest)

31 755 (24.6)

17 591 (25.9)

25 352 (36.1)

9 045 (26.9)

27 878 (31.6)

11 908 (45.6)

1 439 (14.4)

5 730 (19.0)

130 867 (28.7)

Q2

32 387 (25.1)

13 136 (19.4)

17 696 (25.2)

6 402 (19.0)

23 281 (26.4)

5 042 (19.3)

1 591 (15.9)

6 788 (22.5)

106 489 (23.4)

Q3

25 862 (20.1)

13 403 (19.8)

13 668 (19.5)

6 511 (19.4)

19 038 (21.6)

3 629 (13.9)

1 692 (16.9)

5 807 (19.3)

89 798 (19.7)

Q4

22 197 (17.2)

14 215 (21.0)

8 518 (12.1)

6 537 (19.4)

11 853 (13.5)

2 985 (11.4)

1 948 (19.5)

5 800 (19.2)

74 218 (16.3)

Q5 (highest)

16 556 (12.8)

9 434 (13.9)

4 841 (6.9)

5 105 (15.2)

5 964 (6.8)

2 478 (9.5)

3 311 (33.1)

5 997 (19.9)

53 815 (11.8)

No. (%) with university degree*

28 369 (22.0)

16 729 (24.7)

4 029 (5.7)

6 832 (20.3)

21 923 (24.9)

2 317 (8.9)

3 390 (33.9)

2 740 (9.1)

86 525 (19.0)

No. (%) living in large urban area

124 405 (96.5)

62 988 (92.9)

66 975 (95.5)

31 971 (95.1)

85 190 (96.7)

25 221 (96.6)

8 127 (81.4)

26 142 (86.7)

431 805 (94.8)

HEALTH CARE-RELATED FACTORS

No. (%) in RUB category:

0-1

34 440 (26.7)

13 368 (19.7)

10 967 (15.6)

8 170 (24.3)

13 835 (15.7)

5 591 (21.4)

4 592 (45.9)

10 138 (33.6)

101 345 (22.2)

2

19 351 (15.0)

10 843 (16.0)

8 439 (12.0

3 946 (11.7)

10 419 (11.8)

3 048 (11.7)

1 210 (12.1)

3 989 (13.2)

61 365 (13.5)

3

57 936 (44.9)

33 743 (49.7)

36 782 (52.4)

15 170 (45.1)

44 120 (50.1)

11 791 (45.1)

3 154 (31.5)

12 118 (40.2)

215 149 (47.2)

4-5

17 238 (13.4)

9 891 (14.6)

13 996 (19.9)

6 363 (18.9)

19 733 (22.4)

5 695 (21.8)

1 047 (10.5)

3 922 (13.0)

78 005 (17.1)

No. (%) in ADG category:

0-5

83 780 (65.0)

42 490 (62.6)

37 137 (52.9)

19 009 (56.5)

44 845 (50.9)

14 426 (55.2)

21 046 (69.8)

21 046 (69.8)

270 893 (59.4)

6-9

35 926 (27.9)

20 473 (30.2)

24 909 (35.5)

10 527 (31.3)

32 035 (36.4)

8 542 (32.7)

7 300 (24.2)

7 300 (24.2)

141 848 (31.1)

10+

9 259 (7.2)

4 882 (7.2)

8 138 (11.6)

4 113 (12.2)

11 227 (12.7)

3 157 (12.1)

1 821 (6.0)

1 821 (6.0)

43 123 (9.5)

No. (%) with prenatal visit during study period

5 736 (4.5)

3 579 (5.3)

4 610 (6.6)

1 905 (5.7)

7 312 (8.3)

2 000 (7.7)

321 (3.2)

1 507 (5.0)

26 995 (5.9)

No. (%) in: Patient enrolment model

80 584 (62.5)

41 953 (61.8)

47 620 (67.9)

21 227 (63.1)

63 195 (71.7)

16 682 (63.9)

5 101 (51.0)

17 707 (58.7)

294 553 (64.6)

Virtually rostered

23 706 (18.4)

17 131 (25.3)

14 979 (21.3)

6 302 (18.7)

15 499 (17.6)

5 374 (20.6)

1 123 (11.2)

4 482 (14.9)

88 732 (19.5)

Neither

24 675 (19.1)

8 761 (12.9)

7 585 (10.8)

6 120 (18.2)

9 413 (10.7)

4 069 (15.6)

3 779 (37.8)

7 978 (26.5)

72 579 (15.9)

No. (%) with female provider

45 676 (35.4)

28 917 (42.6)

23 234 (33.1)

12 555 (37.3)

42 068 (47.8)

9 679 (37.1)

3 188 (31.9)

10 866 (36.0)

176 471 (38.7)

No. (%) with provider from same region

28 081 (21.8)

19 713 (29.1)

5 397 (7.7)

8 380 (24.9)

34 374 (39.0)

1 937 (7.4)

58 (0.6)

2 911 (9.7)

100 851 (22.1)

No. (%) with gynaecologist

27 739 (21.5)

20 547 (30.3)

22 028 (31.4)

8 822 (26.2)

23 768 (27.0)

7 557 (28.9)

1 472 (14.7)

5 985 (19.8)

118 075 (25.9)

MIGRATION-RELATED FACTORS

No. (%) able to speak English*

73 105 (56.7)

24 623 (36.3)

57 012 (81.2)

17 673 (52.5)

43 638 (49.5)

18 700 (71.6)

9 675 (96.7)

19 901 (66.0)

264 848 (58.1)

No. (%) in Canada less than 10 yrs

18 931 (14.7)

10 919 (16.1)

6 184 (8.8)

5 578 (16.6)

20 179 (22.9)

3 700 (14.2)

1 094 (10.9)

1 908 (6.3)

68 827 (15.1)

Mean age at landing (SD)

28.8 (11.5)

27.8 (12.0)

25.5 (12.0)

25.8 (12.4)

28.1 (11.9)

25.2 (11.0)

26.3 (12.1)

24.2 (11.9)

27.2 (11.9)

Immigrant class, No. (%)

Economic

74 615 (57.9)

26 577 (39.2)

21 684 (30.9)

16 956 (50.4)

30 904 (35.1)

7 669 (29.4)

3 508 (35.1)

19 438 (64.4)

201 872 (44.3)

Family

47 632 (36.7)

21 099 (31.1)

41 312 (58.9)

8 688 (25.8)

43 243 (49.1)

8 450 (32.3)

6 255 (62.5)

9 783 (32.4)

186 444 (40.9)

Refugee

5 817 (4.5)

19 621 (28.9)

7 010 (10.0)

7 836 (23.3)

13 278 (15.1)

9 834 (37.6)

238 (2.4)

940 (3.1)

64 618 (14.2)

  1. *Recorded on date of landing in Canada
  2. RUB = Resource Utilization Bands, which range from 0 (lowest expected health care costs) to 5 (highest expected health care costs), used to categorize patients based on their expected use of health care resources.
  3. ADG = Aggregated Diagnosis Groups, which range from 0 (no diagnosis group) to 32 (32 distinct diagnosis groups) used to measure the level of co-morbidity.