Students in grades 7 to 12 who report having used cannabis in the last 12 months

Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2022-2023 Academic Year 2021-2022 Academic Year 2018-2019 Academic Year 2015-2016
Province
New Brunswick
15.4
15.1 - 15.7
15.9
20.8
19.1
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
13.1
12.6 - 13.7
13.6
19.7
17.8
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
16.6
15.9 - 17.3
17.5
24.3
20.1
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
17.3
16.5 - 18.0
17.3
21.0
20.2
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
13.3
12.1 - 14.5
13.1
12.8
14.6
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
18.7
16.6 - 20.8
18.4
22.5
16.9
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
12.8
11.7 - 13.8
13.2
17.5
17.0
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
20.2
18.6 - 21.7
21.6
23.2
25.9
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
15.1
13.4 - 16.8
14.1
21.7
15.5
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
17.2
15.2 - 19.1
20.3
26.5
23.5
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
19.3
16.6 - 22.0
17.3
24.4
14.5
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
10.3
7.7 - 13.0
13.5
15.9
17.7
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
17.8
14.6 - 21.0
20.2
19.5
19.0
Dieppe and Memramcook
7.7
6.5 - 8.9
6.2
12.6
13.3
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
24.7
19.7 - 29.7
20.9
17.2
19.5
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
12.8
11.2 - 14.5
12.8
12.3
13.7
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
17.5
15.7 - 19.3
18.2
19.7
18.4
Fredericton
16.1
15.0 - 17.2
14.5
19.9
14.0
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
n/a
3.8
S
3.3
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
13.5
11.4 - 15.5
12.5
10.9
14.4
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
27.3
21.3 - 33.3
24.5
30.7
20.0
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
14.7
11.1 - 18.4
16.2
16.4
18.7
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
23.1
19.3 - 26.8
23.4
18.2
23.0
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
21.1
19.5 - 22.8
22.3
24.5
26.8
Moncton
11.9
11.2 - 12.7
12.1
18.2
16.2
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
19.6
16.0 - 23.1
24.8
27.5
25.2
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
11.9
8.1 - 15.7
15.8
10.2
14.4
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
13.8
10.0 - 17.5
17.7
27.5
21.2
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
16.7
14.9 - 18.5
18.7
24.4
26.5
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
20.7
17.3 - 24.2
25.7
24.1
32.9
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
15.1
13.9 - 16.4
17.8
21.9
16.7
Riverview and Coverdale
15.5
13.7 - 17.4
15.6
21.7
21.3
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
17.3
14.3 - 20.4
20.2
20.4
21.4
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
17.7
16.7 - 18.8
18.1
25.9
22.0
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
20.2
17.6 - 22.8
20.5
24.8
24.8
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
11.6
9.6 - 13.7
11.7
20.5
11.1
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
11.3
8.8 - 13.9
16.6
19.5
20.9
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
17.1
13.9 - 20.3
19.0
26.6
23.9
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
16.1
13.7 - 18.4
16.0
21.1
19.0
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
17.0
14.8 - 19.3
17.5
29.6
20.9
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
10.8
8.8 - 12.8
9.4
8.5
15.7
School districts
Anglophone East School District
15.2
14.4 - 15.9
15.4
21.4
19.6
Anglophone North School District
23.7
22.4 - 25.1
24.4
28.8
26.3
Anglophone South School District
16.8
16.1 - 17.5
17.9
24.7
20.3
Anglophone West School District
17.3
16.6 - 18.1
17.7
21.7
20.5
Anglophone sector
17.4
17.0 - 17.8
18.0
23.5
21.0
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
11.1
10.1 - 12.0
12.3
15.0
15.6
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
13.4
12.1 - 14.7
13.0
12.3
14.0
District scolaire francophone Sud
8.9
8.2 - 9.6
9.1
14.3
13.2
Francophone sector
10.4
9.9 - 10.9
10.8
14.1
14.2
Grades
Grades 6 to 8
3.8
3.6 - 4.1
3.6
4.4
3.7
Grades 9 to 12
20.9
20.5 - 21.4
22.1
28.3
26.1
Gender
Woman/Girl
16.1
15.6 - 16.6
17.1
n/a
n/a
Man/Boy
14.2
13.7 - 14.7
14.2
n/a
n/a
Non-binary
18.8
17.1 - 20.5
18.7
n/a
n/a
Sex at birth
Female
16.2
15.7 - 16.6
17.2
20.1
n/a
Male
14.4
14.0 - 14.9
14.4
21.6
n/a
Sexual identity
Minority sexual identity
19.8
18.9 - 20.6
20.7
n/a
n/a
Heterosexual
14.9
14.5 - 15.3
15.2
n/a
n/a
LGBTQ2+ Status
LGBTQ2+ person
19.8
19.0 - 20.6
20.6
n/a
n/a
Non LGBTQ2+ person
14.8
14.4 - 15.2
15.2
n/a
n/a
Race
White
16.7
16.3 - 17.1
17.6
n/a
n/a
South Asian
10.9
8.2 - 13.7
5.9
n/a
n/a
Other
15.9
13.4 - 18.3
13.5
n/a
n/a
Middle Eastern
10.0
8.1 - 12.0
9.0
n/a
n/a
Latino
16.5
14.1 - 18.9
19.6
n/a
n/a
East/Southeast Asian
7.2
6.1 - 8.3
7.1
n/a
n/a
Black
18.4
16.7 - 20.1
15.2
n/a
n/a
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
29.7
27.9 - 31.4
29.5
30.9
31.7
Non-Indigenous
14.6
14.3 - 15.0
15.4
20.2
18.3
Food poverty
Food poverty
29.4
27.8 - 31.0
26.0
n/a
n/a
No food poverty
14.3
14.0 - 14.7
15.1
n/a
n/a
Immigrant
Immigrants
8.1
7.3 - 8.8
8.2
13.6
n/a
Non-immigrants
16.4
16.0 - 16.7
16.7
21.4
n/a
Special needs
Has a special need
23.6
22.9 - 24.2
23.8
n/a
n/a
No special need
10.8
10.4 - 11.1
11.5
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 7 to 12 who report having used cannabis in the last 12 months.

Source

New Brunswick Health Council, Student Wellness Survey - Grades 6-12

Calculations

This indicator is calculated by dividing the number of respondents who answered "less than once a month, once a month, 2 or 3 times a month, once a week, 2 or 3 times a week, 4 to 6 times a week or every day" by the number of respondents who answered "I have never used cannabis, I have used cannabis, but not in the last 12 months, less than once a month, once a month, 2 or 3 times a month
once a week, 2 or 3 times a week, 4 to 6 times a week or every day" to the question: In the last 12 months, how often did you use cannabis?

Notes

Users are advised to exercise caution if comparing data from the community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area to other New Brunswick communities. The data for the community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area is based on students in grades 6 to 8, while data from the other communities are based on students in grades 6 to 12. Survey results are assigned to communities based on the location of the school. The community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area does not have any schools with grades 9 to 12.

Unit

%

Interpretation

Lower is better

NBHC code

SH_MAR02_2

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