Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 The link between population health and the socio-economic environment
Chapter 2 Literacy and information acquisition among seniors
Conclusion
Endnotes
References
Appendix A
List of figures
Figure 1.1 Proportion of Canadians in very good to excellent health, by marital status and age
Figure 1.2 Proportion of Canadians in very good to excellent health, by age, marital status and sex
Figure 1.3 Proportion of Canadians in very good to excellent health, by age and sex
Figure 1.4 Proportion of Canadians in very good to excellent health, by age and education level
Figure 2.1 Proportion of older Canadians who have completed high school or more, by age and prose literacy level
Figure 2.2 Proportion of older Canadians who have completed high school or more, by prose literacy level, age and sex
Figure 2.3 Proportion of Canadians aged 65 and over requiring no assistance performing selected activities, by prose literacy level
Figure 2.4 Proportion of Canadians aged 65 and over performing selected daily activities, by prose literacy level
Figure 2.5 Proportion of older Canadians watching two or more hours of television daily, by age and prose literacy level
Figure 2.6 Proportion of Canadians aged 65 and over who derive a lot or some of their knowledge of current events from selected daily sources, by source and prose literacy level
Figure 2.7 Proportion of Canadians aged 65 and over who self-rated their reading skill as excellent or good, by document and prose literacy level
Figure 2.8 Proportion of Canadians with lowest prose literacy levels (1 and 2) who daily read instructions on medicine bottles and in recipes, by age
Appendix A tables
Table 1.1 Health status, by marital status and age
Table 1.2 Health status of older Canadians, by marital status, sex and age
Table 1.3 Health status, by sex and age
Table 1.4 Health status, by ownership of dwelling and age
Table 1.5 Health status, by highest level of education and age
Table 1.6 Health status, by highest level of education, sex and age
Table 1.7 Health status, by household income and age
Table 1.8 Health status, by household income, sex and age
Table 2.1 Literacy ability, by age and selected literacy type
Table 2.2 Household income distribution for the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) 1994 and the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) 1994
Table 2.3 Prose literacy level of older Canadians, by highest level of education and age
Table 2.4 Document literacy level of older Canadians, by highest level of education and age
Table 2.5 Quantitative literacy level of older Canadians, by highest level of education and age
Table 2.6 Prose literacy level, by highest level of education, sex and age
Table 2.7 Document literacy level, by highest level of education, sex and age
Table 2.8 Quantitative literacy level, by highest level of education, sex and age
Table 2.9 Prose literacy level, by age and proportion performing selected activities daily
Table 2.10 Prose literacy level, by amount of time spent watching TV or videos daily and age
Table 2.11 Prose literacy level, by amount of time spent watching TV or videos daily, sex and age
Table 2.12 Prose literacy level for Canadians aged 25 to 44, by amount of current events knowledge derived from selected sources
Table 2.13 Prose literacy level for Canadians aged 45 to 64, by amount of current events knowledge derived from selected sources
Table 2.14 Prose literacy level for Canadians aged 65 and over, by amount of current events knowledge derived from selected sources
Table 2.15 Selected literacy type and level for older Canadians requiring no assistance with selected activities, by age
Table 2.16 Selected literacy type and level for older Canadians requiring no assistance with selected activities, by sex and age
Table 2.17 Selected literacy type and level for older Canadians requiring no assistance with selected activities, by sex and age
Table 2.18 Frequency of reading instructions on medicine bottles and in recipes, by prose literacy level and age
Table 2.19 Proportion of people who generally read the home, fashion and health section of the newspaper, by prose literacy level and age
Statistics Canada – Catalogue no. 89-552, no. 5
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