TABLE C
SUMMARY STATISTICS BY HEALTH REGION
BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1994-1998

		Low Birth Wt.						Teenage		Elderly
		Live Birth		Cesarean		Pre-term		Mother		Gravida
Health Region		Total	Rate	Total	Rate1	Total	Rate1	Total	Rate1	Total	Rate1
01	East Kootenay	155	39.16	697	176.10	157	39.67	342	86.41	428	108.14
02	West Kootenay - Boundary	185	49.16	685	182.04	207	55.01	254	67.50	489	129.95
03	North Okanagan	243	42.97	1,382	244.39	294	51.99	421	74.45	680	120.25
04	South Okanagan Similkameen	584	53.54	2,053	188.21	689	63.16	697	63.90	1,455	133.39
05	Thompson	386	53.17	1,757	242.01	482	66.39	602	82.92	704	96.97
06	Fraser Valley	785	49.25	3,280	205.80	898	56.34	1,071	67.20	1,558	97.75
07	South Fraser Valley	2,104	56.02	7,963	212.00	2,485	66.16	1,276	33.97	5,049	134.42
08	Simon Fraser	1,003	50.99	3,570	181.50	1,251	63.60	638	32.44	3,320	168.79
09	Coast Garibaldi	209	49.14	827	194.45	260	61.13	263	61.84	680	159.89
10	Central Vancouver Island	583	48.33	2,398	198.77	806	66.81	1,006	83.39	1,526	126.49
11	Upper Island/Central Coast	327	48.89	1,386	207.21	434	64.88	594	88.80	817	122.14
12	Cariboo	242	51.80	1,125	240.80	282	60.36	458	98.03	413	88.40
13	North West	314	47.19	1,291	194.02	439	65.98	685	102.95	657	98.74
14	Peace Liard	200	40.47	949	192.03	268	54.23	467	94.50	435	88.02
15	Northern Interior	441	50.16	1,816	206.55	566	64.38	805	91.56	731	83.14
16	Vancouver	1,742	57.36	6,063	199.65	2,167	71.36	720	23.71	6,630	218.32
17	Burnaby	585	57.22	1,617	158.17	699	68.38	334	32.67	1,883	184.19
18	North Shore	378	42.94	1,660	188.55	501	56.91	118	13.40	2,566	291.46
19	Richmond	418	49.73	1,752	208.45	533	63.41	158	18.80	1,845	219.51
20	Capital	740	46.92	3,737	236.92	1,022	64.79	726	46.03	2,625	166.42
	N.S.	22		64		27		29		45
	PROVINCIAL TOTAL	11,646	51.35	46,072	203.15	14,467	63.79	11,664	51.43	34,536	152.29
08/17	Simon Fraser/Burnaby	1,588	53.12	5,187	173.52	1,950	65.23	972	32.52	5,203	174.06
16/19	Vancouver/Richmond	2,160	55.71	7,815	201.56	2,700	69.64	878	22.64	8,475	218.58
Note: SMR - Standardized Mortality Ratio. PYLLI - Potential Years of Life Lost Index. SMR, PYLLI, and Rate are based on the five-year period from 1994 to 1998. Death is the total number of deaths for the 1994 to 1998 period D <75 is the number of deaths under 75 years of age. * Statistical testing indicates that observed deaths are statistically different from the expected deaths (p<0.05 two tailed). + denotes significance based on less than five cases. TR - Trend in ASMR based on three year moving average from 1985 to 1998 ìindicates a statistically significantly positive (increasing) trend and îindicates a statistically significantly negative (decreasing) trend (in areas with an average of less than one death per year in the 14-year period, 1985 to 1998, trends are not shown). See Glossary under Trend Analysis of ASMR for a full explanation. TR** - Trend reflects change in Medical Certification of Death form introduced in 1993. Please see Highlights to Table 39 for details. Seven live births with gender unknown are excluded. Three deaths with gender unknown are excluded from mortality data in Tables B and D. N.S. - Not Stated. Non-residents are excluded.