Students in grades 6 to 12 who report riding in a car with someone who was smoking cigarettes during the last 7 days

Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2022-2023 Academic Year 2021-2022 Academic Year 2018-2019 Academic Year 2015-2016
Province
New Brunswick
19.0
18.7 - 19.3
18.4
18.3
21.0
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
14.7
14.1 - 15.2
14.7
15.0
15.9
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
20.2
19.6 - 20.9
19.0
17.6
19.5
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
20.4
19.7 - 21.1
19.8
18.8
22.7
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
21.4
20.0 - 22.8
20.5
20.2
24.2
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
26.2
24.0 - 28.4
21.6
27.0
24.2
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
19.0
17.8 - 20.1
18.9
20.6
25.9
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
26.5
24.9 - 28.1
24.8
25.7
30.2
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
16.6
14.9 - 18.3
18.8
18.2
18.6
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
22.1
20.0 - 24.1
22.7
25.1
27.7
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
26.9
24.0 - 29.8
21.3
26.0
23.5
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
17.6
14.6 - 20.5
16.3
19.4
25.2
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
25.3
21.9 - 28.7
22.1
28.4
24.9
Dieppe and Memramcook
7.3
6.3 - 8.4
6.6
7.7
9.0
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
34.1
29.1 - 39.1
31.8
27.1
30.1
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
17.7
16.0 - 19.5
18.0
17.6
21.1
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
24.4
22.6 - 26.3
26.7
21.9
27.3
Fredericton
14.9
14.0 - 15.9
12.7
12.7
9.5
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
n/a
21.0
9.0
11.3
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
23.5
21.2 - 25.9
22.5
24.1
24.2
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
42.8
36.8 - 48.9
30.6
27.5
23.7
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
31.1
26.6 - 35.5
28.0
27.1
37.6
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
37.0
32.8 - 41.2
32.1
32.0
40.4
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
26.3
24.6 - 27.9
23.8
26.6
30.8
Moncton
13.0
12.2 - 13.7
13.5
12.7
13.5
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
31.0
27.1 - 34.9
36.3
28.1
29.9
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
28.2
23.1 - 33.4
33.2
17.3
24.5
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
17.0
13.4 - 20.5
26.5
25.2
25.9
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
19.1
17.4 - 20.8
22.4
21.4
28.3
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
35.8
32.0 - 39.6
35.0
29.6
37.4
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
14.0
12.9 - 15.1
13.1
10.7
12.8
Riverview and Coverdale
15.2
13.6 - 16.9
15.1
12.6
13.4
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
20.5
17.5 - 23.6
17.0
16.9
18.8
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
21.1
20.0 - 22.1
19.8
19.5
20.7
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
24.8
22.3 - 27.4
26.1
28.1
28.9
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
11.6
9.6 - 13.6
11.0
15.3
12.4
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
23.4
20.3 - 26.5
21.7
24.9
33.6
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
26.3
23.0 - 29.7
28.0
24.7
27.6
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
28.5
25.9 - 31.2
24.7
22.9
26.7
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
24.0
21.6 - 26.3
20.8
22.7
21.8
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
21.2
18.7 - 23.6
19.6
23.9
29.4
School districts
Anglophone East School District
17.6
16.8 - 18.4
17.2
16.1
17.3
Anglophone North School District
27.6
26.3 - 28.9
26.3
29.0
29.4
Anglophone South School District
20.6
19.9 - 21.3
19.3
17.9
19.9
Anglophone West School District
21.1
20.3 - 21.8
21.2
19.8
23.6
Anglophone sector
20.8
20.4 - 21.2
20.2
19.4
21.7
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
19.7
18.6 - 20.8
18.4
20.1
25.9
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
20.0
18.5 - 21.4
19.0
19.4
23.9
District scolaire francophone Sud
9.4
8.7 - 10.1
9.3
10.9
11.6
Francophone sector
14.5
13.9 - 15.0
13.9
15.5
19.1
Grades
Grades 6 to 8
16.9
16.5 - 17.4
15.7
12.5
12.0
Grades 9 to 12
20.4
20.0 - 20.9
20.3
22.2
27.0
Gender
Woman/Girl
18.3
17.8 - 18.8
18.0
n/a
n/a
Man/Boy
18.2
17.7 - 18.7
17.2
n/a
n/a
Non-binary
30.0
28.1 - 31.8
28.5
n/a
n/a
Sex at birth
Female
19.3
18.8 - 19.8
19.3
17.9
n/a
Male
18.5
18.0 - 18.9
17.2
18.7
n/a
Sexual identity
Minority sexual identity
25.2
24.4 - 26.1
24.5
n/a
n/a
Heterosexual
17.7
17.3 - 18.1
17.0
n/a
n/a
LGBTQ2+ Status
LGBTQ2+ person
25.3
24.5 - 26.1
24.4
n/a
n/a
Non LGBTQ2+ person
17.7
17.3 - 18.1
16.9
n/a
n/a
Race
White
19.0
18.6 - 19.4
18.3
n/a
n/a
South Asian
12.0
9.2 - 14.7
7.7
n/a
n/a
Other
20.2
17.8 - 22.6
20.7
n/a
n/a
Middle Eastern
19.4
17.1 - 21.8
19.8
n/a
n/a
Latino
17.4
15.0 - 19.8
17.5
n/a
n/a
East/Southeast Asian
11.5
10.2 - 12.9
10.2
n/a
n/a
Black
18.9
17.2 - 20.5
17.1
n/a
n/a
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
34.9
33.2 - 36.7
32.0
29.4
33.9
Non-Indigenous
17.0
16.7 - 17.4
17.4
17.3
20.2
Food poverty
Food poverty
37.9
36.3 - 39.5
34.4
n/a
n/a
No food poverty
17.6
17.2 - 17.9
17.3
n/a
n/a
Immigrant
Immigrants
11.8
11.0 - 12.7
12.4
12.5
n/a
Non-immigrants
19.9
19.6 - 20.3
19.0
18.8
n/a
Special needs
Has a special need
26.2
25.5 - 26.8
24.1
n/a
n/a
No special need
15.2
14.8 - 15.6
15.4
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 6 to 12 who report riding in a car with someone who was smoking cigarettes during the last 7 days.

Source

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

Calculations

This indicator is calculated by dividing the number of respondents who answered "1 or 2 days, 3 or 4 days, 5 or 6 days or all 7 days" by the number of respondents who answered "0 days, 1 or 2 days, 3 or 4 days, 5 or 6 days or all 7 days" to the question: During the past 7 days, on how many days did you ride in a car with someone who was smoking cigarettes?

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_SMO14_1

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