Use of wheelchairs and other mobility support devices.

Health Reports, Vol. 15, No. 3, May 2004 Statistics Canada, Catalogue 82-003 About 155,000 Canadians who were living in private households in 2000/01 needed a wheelchair to get around. This represents 0.6% of the total household population aged 12 or older (Table A). An additional 540,000 individuals (2.1%) needed other devices such as braces, canes or crutches. These figures on the use of “mobility support devices” in the household population are from the first cycle of the Canadian Community Health Survey, a general health survey conducted by Statistics Canada between September 2000 and October 2001.