Students in grades 4 and 5 who, on average, spend 2 hours or less of screen time per day

Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2022-2023 Academic Year 2019-2020 Academic Year 2016-2017 Academic Year 2013-2014
Province
New Brunswick
22.0
21.3 - 22.6
n/a
43.3
45.2
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
22.2
20.9 - 23.5
n/a
44.7
47.9
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
23.4
22.0 - 24.7
n/a
40.7
45.5
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
21.5
20.2 - 22.8
n/a
45.5
44.2
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
23.6
20.6 - 26.5
n/a
45.5
47.6
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
20.6
16.6 - 24.6
n/a
39.0
36.7
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
19.2
16.9 - 21.5
n/a
38.8
40.7
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
19.2
16.5 - 22.0
n/a
45.2
38.4
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
22.0
18.1 - 25.9
n/a
39.7
44.7
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
14.9
10.9 - 18.9
24.6
40.6
40.7
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
23.0
17.6 - 28.3
n/a
43.5
18.2
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
19.7
14.6 - 24.8
n/a
38.7
30.9
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
17.4
11.6 - 23.3
n/a
36.0
43.1
Dieppe and Memramcook
22.6
19.4 - 25.8
n/a
48.7
59.4
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
14.1
9.2 - 18.9
33.5
49.6
44.8
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
26.0
21.3 - 30.8
29.8
48.2
50.4
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
21.1
17.5 - 24.6
52.4
45.6
49.3
Fredericton
23.9
21.8 - 26.0
n/a
48.5
47.6
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
21.8
16.2 - 27.4
n/a
39.9
60.7
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
21.5
17.1 - 25.9
34.1
46.9
49.3
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
15.6
6.0 - 25.3
n/a
33.6
S
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
22.3
15.0 - 29.6
n/a
33.6
21.4
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
13.2
8.0 - 18.5
25.6
40.2
27.6
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
20.0
17.1 - 22.9
n/a
46.1
39.0
Moncton
24.1
22.3 - 26.0
n/a
45.2
46.4
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
26.2
20.0 - 32.5
n/a
42.1
42.4
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
S
16.2
35.7
35.9
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
23.0
19.0 - 27.0
30.1
47.9
37.1
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
17.0
14.0 - 20.0
n/a
36.4
42.5
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
22.7
15.8 - 29.6
n/a
45.2
26.6
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
26.5
23.9 - 29.0
n/a
47.9
48.3
Riverview and Coverdale
19.5
16.0 - 23.0
36.8
44.5
46.3
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
28.6
22.5 - 34.7
45.9
35.6
S
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
21.3
19.2 - 23.3
n/a
36.3
43.6
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
24.5
18.5 - 30.5
n/a
47.6
46.6
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
14.7
10.1 - 19.3
n/a
41.5
48.5
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
16.9
11.6 - 22.1
30.0
32.8
39.0
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
16.4
11.6 - 21.2
n/a
41.9
45.6
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
20.0
15.6 - 24.4
17.8
39.0
35.6
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
29.1
25.0 - 33.2
36.0
39.4
45.6
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
16.8
12.3 - 21.3
30.6
41.1
40.7
School districts
Anglophone East School District
22.4
20.8 - 24.0
n/a
43.7
46.0
Anglophone North School District
19.9
17.5 - 22.2
n/a
45.7
40.6
Anglophone South School District
23.0
21.6 - 24.3
n/a
40.1
44.9
Anglophone West School District
20.8
19.4 - 22.1
n/a
44.8
43.2
Anglophone sector
21.8
21.0 - 22.6
n/a
43.0
44.2
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
18.8
16.6 - 21.0
n/a
38.0
39.2
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
25.1
21.8 - 28.4
n/a
46.6
47.7
District scolaire francophone Sud
23.3
21.5 - 25.2
n/a
46.8
53.1
Francophone sector
22.3
21.0 - 23.6
n/a
44.0
47.5
Grades
Grade 4
23.2
22.2 - 24.2
n/a
n/a
n/a
Grade 5
20.8
19.9 - 21.7
n/a
n/a
n/a
Gender
Woman/Girl
29.0
27.9 - 30.1
n/a
51.9
55.1
Man/Boy
15.9
15.1 - 16.7
n/a
35.4
35.4
Non-binary
19.3
12.9 - 25.7
n/a
n/a
n/a
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
18.8
15.9 - 21.6
n/a
n/a
n/a
Non-Indigenous
23.4
22.6 - 24.2
n/a
n/a
n/a
Immigrant
Immigrants
23.7
21.7 - 25.7
n/a
n/a
n/a
Non-immigrants
22.0
21.3 - 22.7
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a = Not applicable / not available
S = Data suppressed due to confidentiality requirements and/or small sample size

About

This indicator is the percentage of students in grades 4 and 5 who, on average, spend 2 hours or less of screen time per day, based on their responses to 4 individual questions in the survey.

Source

New Brunswick Health Council, Elementary Student Wellness Survey

Calculations

This indicator adds the responses to the following 4 individual questions: 'On most days, how much time do you spend watching TV/movies?', 'On most days, how much time do you spend using a smart phone or tablet (for games, YouTube, FaceTime, etc.)?', 'On most days, how much time do you spend playing video games?' and 'On most days, how much time do you spend using the computer (not for school)?'. The response options for these 4 individual questions are: none, less than 30 min, 30 min, 1 hour, 1 hour and 30 min, 2 hours, 3 hours or more and I do not know. This indicator is calculated by dividing the number of respondents who have a total of '2 hours or less' by the number of respondents who answered all 4 individual questions.

Notes

The 2019-2020 edition of this survey was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the number of schools that participated in 2019-2020 is much lower than other editions of the survey, results at the provincial level were deemed not representative of the total student population. Therefore, survey results for New Brunswick, health zones and demographic groups are not available for the 2019-2020 edition. However, 2019-2020 results are available for communities in which the number of participating schools was deemed sufficient to be representative of the student population in that community.

Unit

%

Interpretation

Higher is better

NBHC code

SE_DAA01_2

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