Students in grades 6 to 12 who report vaping, in any amount, at present (vaping daily or occasionally)

Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2022-2023 Academic Year 2021-2022
Province
New Brunswick
15.6
15.3 - 15.9
16.5
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
12.8
12.3 - 13.3
13.5
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
16.2
15.6 - 16.9
17.2
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
16.0
15.3 - 16.6
15.4
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
18.4
17.2 - 19.7
19.9
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
20.0
18.1 - 22.0
22.1
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
17.0
15.9 - 18.1
19.7
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
20.3
18.9 - 21.7
22.4
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
15.0
13.5 - 16.6
17.2
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
19.7
17.8 - 21.6
20.1
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
21.6
19.0 - 24.2
20.6
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
15.0
12.3 - 17.8
20.4
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
17.8
14.9 - 20.7
24.2
Dieppe and Memramcook
9.3
8.1 - 10.5
7.4
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
26.1
21.6 - 30.7
18.7
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
17.7
15.9 - 19.4
18.0
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
16.5
15.0 - 18.1
19.6
Fredericton
13.7
12.7 - 14.6
11.8
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
n/a
5.2
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
18.0
16.0 - 20.1
20.6
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
28.9
23.5 - 34.3
30.3
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
22.7
18.8 - 26.6
27.0
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
20.4
17.1 - 23.7
17.6
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
20.6
19.1 - 22.1
22.0
Moncton
10.7
10.0 - 11.4
11.8
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
18.9
15.7 - 22.0
24.0
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
17.5
13.5 - 21.5
25.1
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
12.6
9.5 - 15.6
22.6
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
16.2
14.7 - 17.8
16.0
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
24.9
21.6 - 28.2
26.0
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
13.2
12.2 - 14.3
16.1
Riverview and Coverdale
12.8
11.2 - 14.3
14.7
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
15.7
13.0 - 18.3
14.5
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
17.4
16.5 - 18.4
19.0
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
19.3
17.0 - 21.6
20.9
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
13.1
11.1 - 15.2
13.2
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
23.2
20.1 - 26.2
28.0
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
19.6
16.6 - 22.6
18.9
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
16.4
14.2 - 18.5
12.7
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
18.9
16.8 - 21.0
17.3
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
17.9
15.6 - 20.1
19.5
School districts
Anglophone East School District
13.8
13.2 - 14.5
14.9
Anglophone North School District
21.9
20.7 - 23.1
23.9
Anglophone South School District
16.6
15.9 - 17.2
17.5
Anglophone West School District
16.2
15.6 - 16.8
16.2
Anglophone sector
16.4
16.0 - 16.7
17.2
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
17.1
16.1 - 18.2
19.8
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
19.2
17.8 - 20.6
20.1
District scolaire francophone Sud
9.7
8.9 - 10.4
9.5
Francophone sector
13.7
13.2 - 14.3
14.7
Grades
Grades 6 to 8
5.5
5.3 - 5.8
5.7
Grades 9 to 12
22.8
22.3 - 23.2
24.4
Gender
Woman/Girl
17.3
16.8 - 17.8
18.2
Man/Boy
13.7
13.3 - 14.2
14.5
Non-binary
17.9
16.5 - 19.4
17.6
Sex at birth
Female
17.1
16.7 - 17.6
18.1
Male
13.9
13.5 - 14.3
14.7
Sexual identity
Minority sexual identity
18.4
17.7 - 19.1
18.6
Heterosexual
15.7
15.3 - 16.1
16.9
LGBTQ2+ Status
LGBTQ2+ person
18.4
17.7 - 19.1
18.5
Non LGBTQ2+ person
15.7
15.3 - 16.0
16.9
Race
White
16.6
16.3 - 17.0
17.7
South Asian
11.4
8.8 - 14.0
6.0
Other
15.1
12.9 - 17.4
14.4
Middle Eastern
11.5
9.6 - 13.4
11.5
Latino
18.9
16.4 - 21.4
20.4
East/Southeast Asian
7.8
6.7 - 8.8
8.7
Black
18.0
16.5 - 19.5
15.5
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
29.0
27.4 - 30.5
28.4
Non-Indigenous
14.8
14.4 - 15.1
15.9
Food poverty
Food poverty
30.4
29.0 - 31.9
28.4
No food poverty
14.4
14.1 - 14.7
15.5
Immigrant
Immigrants
8.9
8.2 - 9.7
8.9
Non-immigrants
16.5
16.2 - 16.8
17.3
Special needs
Has a special need
24.2
23.6 - 24.8
24.3
No special need
11.0
10.6 - 11.3
12.3
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 vaping, in any amount, at present (vaping daily or occasionally).

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 week, at least once a week, but not every day or every day" by the number of respondents who answered "I do not use e-cigarettes, less than once a week, at least once a week, but not every day or every day" to the question: How often do you use e-cigarettes at present?

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_VAP03_1

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