Students in grades 6 to 12 who felt lonely most or all of the time in the last 12 months

Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2021-2022
Province
New Brunswick
28.3
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
28.0
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
30.1
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
29.3
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
22.9
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
29.0
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
25.2
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
27.9
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
28.7
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
28.3
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
27.7
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
19.9
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
30.9
Dieppe and Memramcook
23.1
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
24.1
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
22.2
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
29.8
Fredericton
27.4
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
22.2
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
24.6
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
35.8
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
21.5
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
28.3
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
27.4
Moncton
28.4
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
33.9
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
31.5
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
24.6
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
34.4
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
33.3
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
28.3
Riverview and Coverdale
29.9
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
29.7
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
32.2
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
31.8
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
25.9
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
24.8
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
27.1
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
28.6
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
30.1
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
22.3
School districts
Anglophone East School District
29.9
Anglophone North School District
31.9
Anglophone South School District
30.1
Anglophone West School District
29.6
Anglophone sector
30.1
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
23.6
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
22.2
District scolaire francophone Sud
24.6
Francophone sector
23.9
Grades
Grades 6 to 8
22.9
Grades 9 to 12
32.3
Gender
Woman/Girl
33.3
Man/Boy
19.2
Non-binary
61.2
Sex at birth
Female
36.6
Male
19.2
Sexual identity
Minority sexual identity
51.8
Heterosexual
22.0
LGBTQ2+ Status
LGBTQ2+ person
51.5
Non LGBTQ2+ person
22.0
Race
White
28.7
South Asian
23.2
Other
31.1
Middle Eastern
25.6
Latino
30.3
East/Southeast Asian
27.2
Black
28.9
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
36.6
Non-Indigenous
27.8
Food poverty
Food poverty
45.2
No food poverty
27.1
Immigrant
Immigrants
25.6
Non-immigrants
28.6
Special needs
Has a special need
42.6
No special need
20.6
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 6 to 12 who felt lonely most or all of the time 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 "most of the time or all of the time" by the number of respondents who answered "never, rarely, sometimes, most of the time or all of the time" to the question: During the last 12 months, how often have you felt lonely?

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

%

NBHC code

SH_SIL01_1

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