Canadian Community Health Survey - Annual Component (CCHS)

Life stress of person, category

Life stress refers to the amount of stress in the person's life, on most days, as perceived by the person or, in the case of proxy response, by the person responding.

Person refers to an individual and is the unit of analysis for most social statistics programs.

The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:

• Ability to handle stress, total response
• Life Stress
• Source of stress