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Level of Statistical Significance / Seuil de signification statistiqueCompared to the national average of 0.8 / En comparaison de la moyenne nationale de 0.8
Significantly High / Valeur significativement élevéeTenth Decile, Not Significant / Dixième décile, non significatifNot Significantly Different / Valeur non significativement différenteSignificantly Low / Valeur significativement faibleNo Cases / Aucun casData Suppressed / Données supprimées
Sparsely Populated / Peu peuplée
Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James
Source: Health Indicators Volume 2001, No. 3. Produced by Geography Division for the Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada, 2001 Indicateurs de la santé, Volume 2001, No. 3. Préparé par la Division de la géographie pour la Division de la statistique de la santé, Statistique Canada, 2001.
Deaths due to Medically Treatable Diseases:Bacterial Infections
Age-Standardized Rate for Persons Aged 5 to 64By Health Region
1996Décès dus à des maladies traitables
médicalement : Infections bactériennesTaux normalisé selon l'âge pour les personnes
âgées de 5 à 64 ansPar région socio-sanitaire
1996
Health Indicators, May 2002Statistics Canada, catalogue no. 82-221-X IE Volume 2002, No. 1
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Level of Statistical Significance
The level of statistical significance was calculated at a 95% level ofconfidence to determine whether the data were significantly higher than,lower than or not significantly different from the Canadian average. Insome health regions, the data values are numerically higher or lower thanthe national average, but have high variability so are not statisticallydifferent from the national average. This category is First (or Tenth)Decile, Not Significant. This means that the indicator values themselves inthese health regions were low enough (or high enough, in the case of 10th
decile) to be considered among the worst (or best, for 10th decile)10% ofall health regions, but the high variability of the value made it notstatistically significant from the Canada average.
For more information about data sources and limitations see the Data quality,concepts and methodology section as well as the table footnotes.