Research Article
Identifying At-Risk Subpopulations of Canadians with Limited Health Literacy
Table 2
Identified subpopulations and predictor variables by the risks of limited health literacy.
| Subpopulations | % Limited HL (n)
| Age | Household income | Read books | Adult education | Read newspaper | College education | Employed | Immigrants | Born in Canada |
| 1 | 81.8% (817) | ≥56 | ≤$50,000 | No | No | No | — | — | — | — | 2 | 64.9% (1,775) | ≥56 | ≤$50,000 | No | No | Yes | — | — | — | — | 3 | 63.5% (365) | ≤55 | — | No | No | — | No | Yes | Yes | — | 4 | 58.7% (1,160) | ≤55 | — | No | No | — | No | No | — | — | 5 | 52.3% (779) | ≥66 | ≤$50,000 | Yes | No | — | — | — | — | — | 6 | 37.7% (245) | ≥56 | ≥$50,000 | — | — | — | No | — | — | — | 7 | 36.5% (679) | ≤55 | — | No | No | — | No | Yes | No | — | 8 | 35.1% (262) | ≥56 | ≤$50,000 | No | Yes | — | — | — | — | — | 9 | 34.0% (586) | 56–65 | ≤$50,000 | Yes | No | — | — | — | — | — | 10 | 33.5% (477) | ≥56 | ≤$50,000 | Yes | Yes | — | — | — | — | — | 11 | 26.3% (864) | ≤55 | — | — | No | — | Yes | — | — | No | 12 | 25.4% (1,501) | ≤55 | — | — | No | — | Yes | — | — | — | 13 | 16.6% (692) | ≥56 | ≥$50,000 | — | — | — | Yes | — | — | — | 14 | 13.9% (9,622) | ≤55 | — | — | Yes | — |
— | — | — | — | 15 | 12.0% (197) | ≤55 | — | — | No | — | Yes | — | — | Yes |
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Note: see Figures 1(a) and 1(b) for simple logistic regression results for terminal nodes (i.e., identified sub-populations). HL: health literacy.
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