Canadian Community Health Survey - Annual Component (CCHS)

Perceived health of person, category

Perceived health refers to the perception of a person's health in general, either by the person themselves or, in the case of proxy response, by the person responding. Health means not only the absence of disease or injury but also physical, mental and social well being.

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

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

• Level of Perceived Health, Aggregate Variant
  Data tables

  • Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS 1.1 and 2.1) immigrant profile, by sex, Canada, provinces and territories Table: 105-0113
  • Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS 1.1 and 2.1) linguistic minority profile (mother tongue and first official language spoken), by sex, Canada, provinces and territories Table: 105-0111
  • Health indicator profile, age-standardized rate, annual estimates, by sex, Canada, provinces and territories Table: 105-0503
  • Health indicator profile, annual estimates, by age group and sex, Canada, provinces, territories, health regions (2013 boundaries) and peer groups Table: 105-0501 *Terminated*
  • Health indicator profile, by Aboriginal identity, age group and sex, four year estimates, Canada, provinces and territories Table: 105-0512
  • Health indicator profile, by Aboriginal identity and sex, age-standardized rate, four year estimates, Canada, provinces and territories Table: 105-0513 *Terminated*
  • Health indicator profile, by linguistic characteristic (mother tongue, first official language spoken), two year period estimates, by sex, Canada, provinces and territories Table: 105-0504
  • Health indicator profile, two-year period estimates, by age group and sex, Canada, provinces, territories, census metropolitan areas and influence zones Table: 105-0592 *Terminated*
  • Health indicator profile, two year period estimates, by age group and sex, Canada, provinces, territories, health regions (2013 boundaries) and peer groups Table: 105-0502 *Terminated*