| Characteristic | Students, % | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | All grades | Grade 7 | Grade 8 | Grade 9 | Grade 10 | Grade 11 | Grade 12 | ||||||||
| Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | ||
| Ethnicity | |||||||||||||||
| White | 65.1 | 65.2 | 65.1 | 65.2 | 66.2 | 63.1 | 64.4 | 67.7 | 66.0 | 65.9 | 66.2 | 67.2 | 65.4 | 61.9 | 61.9 |
| Asian | 10.4 | 11.0 | 9.8 | 12.2 | 13.0 | 12.8 | 11.4 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 10.3 | 9.2 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 13.9 | 9.8 |
| Black | 5.8 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 6.0 | 5.1 | 4.6 | 7.9 | 5.7 | 6.3 | 4.3 | 7.4 | 5.8 | 7.1 |
| Aboriginal (First Nations, Métis, Inuit) | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| Latin American/Hispanic | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 2.6 |
| Other | 12.5 | 12.5 | 12.5 | 12.7 | 11.1 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 12.5 | 12.0 | 12.0 | 11.5 | 13.5 | 12.7 | 12.4 | 14.1 |
| Region | |||||||||||||||
| Eastern | 7.1 | 7.4 | 6.9 | 7.5 | 6.5 | 7.2 | 6.6 | 7.3 | 6.7 | 7.2 | 7.0 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 7.8 | 7.3 |
| Ontario and Quebec | 65.3 | 65.2 | 65.4 | 65.7 | 67.3 | 66.7 | 67.1 | 67.2 | 66.5 | 66.0 | 63.9 | 65.1 | 64.1 | 60.0 | 63.5 |
| Alberta and Saskatchewan | 14.7 | 14.7 | 14.6 | 13.8 | 14.9 | 13.8 | 14.2 | 14.1 | 13.9 | 15.0 | 14.6 | 14.7 | 14.0 | 17.3 | 16.2 |
| British Columbia | 12.9 | 12.7 | 13.1 | 13.0 | 11.3 | 12.3 | 12.0 | 11.4 | 13.0 | 11.8 | 14.5 | 13.0 | 14.8 | 14.8 | 13.0 |
| Spending money, $ | |||||||||||||||
| 0 | 20.0 | 19.7 | 20.4 | 25.0 | 27.7 | 24.8 | 26.9 | 21.1 | 21.5 | 20.1 | 18.1 | 14.9 | 17.1 | 11.5 | 10.9 |
| 1-20 | 30.5 | 30.8 | 30.2 | 40.8 | 41.5 | 38.2 | 37.6 | 33.6 | 34.0 | 30.5 | 29.2 | 21.9 | 21.7 | 19.4 | 16.9 |
| ≥ 21 | 30.1 | 29.0 | 31.1 | 12.8 | 11.9 | 14.1 | 16.8 | 22.3 | 26.6 | 29.7 | 34.6 | 44.7 | 42.6 | 51.4 | 55.2 |
| Not stated | 19.4 | 20.6 | 18.2 | 21.3 | 18.9 | 22.9 | 18.8 | 23.0 | 17.8 | 19.6 | 18.1 | 18.6 | 18.6 | 17.7 | 17.1 |
| Smoking status | |||||||||||||||
| Never smoker* | 86.2 | 87.3 | 85.2 | 97.8 | 95.8 | 93.9 | 93.4 | 88.6 | 88.4 | 85.2 | 84.5 | 81.1 | 78.2 | 76.6 | 70.2 |
| Ever smoker† | 4.8 | 3.9 | 5.8 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 3.7 | 10.0 | 5.6 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 14.2 |
| Experimental smoker‡ | 8.9 | 8.8 | 9.2 | 1.7 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 11.1 | 5.6 | 13.2 | 13.2 | 15.1 | 15.5 |
| Alcohol bingeing in previous 12 mo | 26.4 | 26.0 | 26.8 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 21.1 | 19.9 | 32.9 | 32.6 | 42.6 | 46.6 | 50.8 | 51.7 |
*Had not "ever tried cigarette smoking, even just a few puffs.
"†Had tried a cigarette, as indicated by the responses to the questions "Have you ever tried cigarette smoking, even just a few puffs?" and "Have you ever smoked 100 or more whole cigarettes in your life?"
‡Had never tried smoking, even just a few puffs, but reported smoking fewer than 100 whole cigarettes in their lives.