Creator:

Statistics Canada

Geography:

North America > Canada

Categories:

• Chronic Diseases

Tags:

• asthma
• children
• income
• prevalence
• smoking
• treatment

Date:

2008

URL:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2008002/article/10551-eng.pdf

Annotation:

The data for this article are from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), a longitudinal survey that has been conducted biennially since 1994/1995. The target population was
children who were aged 0 to 11 in 1994/1995. Beginning in 1996/ 1997, an additional cohort (primarily newborns and one-year-olds) was recruited to each cycle to maintain a representative sample of
children aged 0 through 11. For every household, the "person most knowledgeable" (PMK) about the child was identified to provide information about each respondent child, as well as for the entire household. In most cases, the PMK was the child's biological mother.