Data from the 2024 Survey on Health Care Access and Experiences - Primary and Specialist Care (SHCAE-PSC).
Point = estimate, whiskers = 95% CI. Dashed line = national rate. Color marks provinces that differ significantly from national. Province-to-province differences are not formally tested; read CI overlap with caution.
For the selected place and indicator: the age gradient and the Men/Women gap, each with 95% CIs. These within-population differences are shown for inspection but are not formally significance-tested in the source table.
By age group
By gender
This tool represents Statistics Canada's published 2024 estimates for the ten provinces, each shown against the national rate with a 95% confidence interval. It performs no additional modeling. Access to primary and specialist care is usually reported as a single provincial number, which hides how much of the spread between provinces is real rather than survey noise, and how unevenly access falls across age and gender within a province.
In Nova Scotia, two differences are significant against the national rate: residents are less likely to have a regular health care provider (77.1% against 81.0%) and more likely to report an unmet health care need (25.0% against 22.4%). Within the province, the youngest adults carry most of that gap. Unmet need runs 32.8% among adults aged 18 to 44 against 14.6% among those 65 and over, and provider attachment is lowest in that same younger group. These within-province age differences are not formally tested here, so they are a pattern to watch rather than an established finding.