Antibiotic dispensation rates among participants in community-driven health research projects in Arctic Canada

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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of study population

	n	Age Distribution		Proportion Female %
	n	Age Group^a (years)	%	Proportion Female %
Four Arctic Communities	297	4–19 20–39 40–59 60–81	12.8 30.0 41.1 16.2	54.9
Aklavik	164	4–19 20–39 40–59 60–80	18.3 34.8 34.8 12.2	51.1
Old Crow	67	5–19 20–39 40–59 60–77	7.5 32.8 43.3 16.4	52.2
Tuktoyaktuk	14	6–19 20–39 40–59 60–78	7.1 14.3 50.0 28.6	71.4
Fort McPherson	52	15–19 20–39 40–59 60–81	3.9 15.4 55.8 25.0	59.6
Edmonton Outpatients^b	~ 865,000	0–19 20–39 40–59 60–90+	22.5 33.6 27.9 16.1	49.5
Rural Northern Alberta Outpatients^c	~ 460,000	0–19 20–39 40–59 60–90+	27.8 31.7 27.5 13.0	47.8

^aAge category labels for Edmonton and rural Alberta outpatients do not indicate the minimum and maximum age values; age categories labels for the upper and lower age groups vary across communities to indicate the minimum and maximum age values
^bAlberta Government Interactive Health Data Application Edmonton City Centre population including both sexes and all ages ranged from 830,213 to 903,256 during 2010–2013
^cAlberta Government Interactive Health Data Application North Zone population including both sexes and all ages ranged from 440,406 to 476,886 during 2010–2013
Boldface data are set to differentiate the values in the total row from values in other rows, which represent subsets of the total

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