By Murray Campbell
The Globe and Mail
Saturday, December 30, 2000
- 1% of people over 15 are 10-pin bowlers.
- 1% of children under 12 are adopted.
- 2% of the population believes that global trade issues should be the top priority of political leaders.
- 2% of Canadians believe that arranged marriages work best.
- 3% of the population lives on a farm and is employed in agriculture.
- 4% of women 21 to 24 have had sex at work, compared with 8% for women in their 40s and 19% for all adults.
- 5% of women believe that they benefit more from marriage than men do.
- 5% of Canada's millionaires live in the Atlantic provinces.
- 6% of Canadians rank Brian Mulroney as the best prime minister of the 20th century.
- 7% of people over 55 have Internet access at home. They spend an average of 748.8 minutes on-line every month.
- 7% of female executives believe that women in private-sector management positions will never be paid as well as men.
- 8% of the population is happy with the way prime ministers appoint Supreme Court of Canada judges.
- 8% of Canadians say the Internet is their principal source of health information.
- 9% of Ontario adults used marijuana in 1998.
- 10% of Ontario motorists drove after drinking in 1998.
- 10% of Canadians are not opposed to cloning entire human beings.
- 11% of Canadians say they understand government pension programs.
- 12% of Canadians know the name of the 1864 conference that led to Confederation three years later.
- 12% of the corporate officers at Canada's 560 largest companies are women.
- 13% of Canadians say they have reduced their exposure to the sun to lower the risk of cancer.
- 13% of adults say they have no sex life.
- 14% of Canadian men say it's all right to take a mistress while married.
- 15% of the people 18 to 29 years old have one or more headaches a week.
- 16% of Canadians say they learned about sex at school.
- 17% of Canada's population in 1996 was born elsewhere.
- 18% of Canadians support genetic selection of a child's gender before birth.
- 19% of Canadian children live in poverty (1997).
- 20% of people believe that Canada's courts are doing a good job of determining whether accused people are guilty.
- 20% of households have three or more colour televisions.
- 21% of Canadians read a newspaper at least once a month (49% do so daily).
- 22% of men say they know what their spouses' sexual fantasies are, compared with 32% of women.
- 23% of Canadian millionaires reported that golfing is their favourite leisure activity.
- 24% of people 18 to 34 years old can identify Paul Henderson as the player who scored the winning goal in the 1972 Canada-Soviet Union hockey series.
- 25% of Canadian women regularly participate in sport, compared with 34% of men.
- 25% of working women report that they were subject to physical, verbal or sexual abuse at work.
- 26% of Ontario adults smoke cigarettes.
- 26% of Canadians would take an opportunity to become a U.S. citizen.
- 26% of the population prefers drugs and tobacco to relieve stress.
- 27% people over 15 are single (51% are married and 7.7% are separated or divorced).
- 28% of Canadians say it would make no difference in their buying habits if they knew some foods contained genetically modified products.
- 29% of boys 7 to 13 years old are overweight.
- 29% of parents would be willing to implant a painless tracking device inside their newborn children.
- 30% of adults have used a natural-health alternative remedy rather than an over-the-counter drug in the previous six months.
- 31% of Canadians read at least a book a week.
- 32% of Canadians say they haven't had a "good, hard laugh" in the previous week.
- 32% of women under the age of 34 say they are bothered by wrinkles and signs of aging.
- 33% of women 40 to 49 years old have had sex in a public place.
- 33% of the population believes that too many immigrants are allowed into Canada.
- 34% of people over 15 attended a concert or professional performance in 1998.
- 35% of people believe the government plays too large a role in their lives.
- 35% of men say they would prefer reporting to a male supervisor; 37% of women would rather report to a female supervisor.
- 36% of men (mostly under the age of 30) support providing tax relief to Canadian National Hockey League franchises, compared with 27% of women.
- 37% of the population reports a family history of heart disease.
- 38% of people believe that the Bible's account of the beginning of life should be taken literally.
- 39% of adults believe that the stock market will continue to flourish for the next two to five years.
- 40% of on-line Canadian households have downloaded MP3 music files and one-third of them do it weekly.
- 40% of food-bank users are under the age of 18.
- 41% of Canada's one-family households own their own home but are still paying down a mortgage.
- 41% of the population is taking two or more prescription drugs.
- 42% of adults say they are more stressed now than they were five years ago.
- 42% of Canadians say having more money is the single best thing that would improve their lives.
- 43% of Canadians say marriage is a lifelong commitment.
- 43% of Canadians support the power of the courts to make law.
- 43% of men 25 to 29 years old say they are satisfied with their sex lives, compared with 54% of women in the same age group.
- 44% of men believe that it is easier for men than women to advance in the workplace; 66% of women think that men have it easier.
- 45% of Canadians say marijuana use should be legalized.
- 46% say the top priority of the federal government in its next mandate should be improving the education system.
- 46% of women constantly think about their weight, compared with 23% of men.
- 47% of the population believes that the health-care system is becoming too expensive to finance entirely through tax dollars.
- 47% of the population of Saskatchewan does volunteer work.
- 48% of Canadians say the devil is active in the world today; 65% of those in Atlantic Canada believe it.
- 48% of Canadians believe that life in the next decade will be better than it is now.
- 48% of women had their first kiss when they were 14 to 17 years old.
- 49% of adults say it is not appropriate to kiss co-workers under the mistletoe at the office Christmas party.
- 49% of adults own stocks either directly or through mutual funds.
- 50% of the population believes that they have become more like Americans in the past decade.
- 50% of Canadians believe that the money that would be spent hosting the 2008 Olympics would be better spent on social programs.
- 51% of households with smoke detectors are "very confident" that they will give enough warning of a fire.
- 52% of men over the age of 65 participate in physical activity regularly.
- 53% of teenagers over the age of 15 years had jobs in 1995.
- 54% of Canadians use the Internet from home to seek medical and health information.
- 55% of Ontarians favour raising taxes and spending the money directly on health care.
- 56% of adults say their parents were fair when they growing up.
- 57% of people believe that tax exemptions for native people should be phased out.
- 58% of Canadians think that the federal Liberal government is arrogant and corrupt.
- 58% of females over the age of 15 are in the labour force.
- 59% of the population over the age of 15 goes to the cinema regularly.
- 59% of retired people found the transition from full-time work to retirement "not at all difficult."
- 60% of those 15 to 17 years old say they use contraception each time they have sex.
- 60% of people believe that the political party that spends the most during an election is almost certain to win.
- 61% of people said their fellow Canadians are more overweight than the rest of the world.
- 61% of Canadian households have a videocassette recorder.
- 62% of people in the greater Toronto area say traffic congestion is the issue of urban life that most needs improvement.
- 63% of the population worries about getting cancer.
- 63% of Canadians feel that they do not have any say over what their government does.
- 64% of adults say they are in a loving relationship.
- 65% of the population believes that humans evolved from other species.
- 66% of Canadians say that "any woman who wants to have an abortion should be able to."
- 67% of the population opposes abandoning the Canadian dollar in favour of U.S. currency.
- 68% of adults took some form of nutritional supplement in the previous month.
- 69% of wives with a child under the age of 6 are in the labour market.
- 70% of Canadians believe that evil acts will be punished eventually through the criminal-justice system.
- 71% of men believe that they have above-average intelligence; 66% of women think the same of themselves.
- 72% of the population participated in regulated or unregulated gambling in the past year.
- 73% of Canadians say they would select Canada if they could pick any country in the world in which to live.
- 74% of women 18 to 24 years old prefer men who aren't balding.
- 75% of business owners believe that their children should start at the bottom and work their way up.
- 75% of teens who go on-line say they do it mostly to play games.
- 76% of women say they would kill someone if their lives depended on it, compared with 90% of men.
- 77% of Canadians say they "generally trust" their fellow countrymen.
- 78% of people with Internet access at work say they use it for personal reasons.
- 78% of Quebeckers believe that the news media should publish the names and photographs of pedophiles when they are released from prison.
- 79% of people 12 to 17 years old drink iced tea.
- 80% of Canadians identify themselves as Christians, with Roman Catholics accounting for 45% of the population (1995).
- 80% of the population believe that all guns should be registered.
- 80% of Canadian households eat in a restaurant at least once every two
weeks.
- 81% of the population have at least one snack every day and most go for junk food such as potato chips and chocolate bars.
- 82% of Canadians support the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
- 83% of single parents are women.
- 84% of adults say they believe in God.
- 85% of people want corporate executives held accountable for avoidable workplace accidents.
- 85% of motorists admit to at least one act of aggressive driving in the previous 12 months.
- 86% of Canadians have tried and failed to lose weight permanently.
- 87% of Torontonians have a favourable view of the city's police force.
- 88% of Canadians think that mapping the human genetic code will increase their quality of life and health.
- 88% of the population believe that people with money have great influence over governments.
- 89% of women are worried about privacy issues in on-line banking, compared with 78% of men.
- 90% of Canadians own a bank debit card and 42% prefer to use it to pay for their purchases.
- 91% of people say they had no intention of buying a Christmas gift for a co-worker, employee or boss.
- 91% of Canadians are satisfied with their personal safety.
- 92% of men still think of their first loves, compared with 83% of women.
- 93% of women and 83% of men say they are satisfied with the medical care they received in the past year.
- 94% of Canadians say they are proud of their country.
- 95% of high-tech workers under the age of 30 have no children.
- 96% of men -- Canadians, Americans, Europeans and Australians -- report they are happy with their use of Viagra.
- 97% of those 12 to 24 years old say that showing courtesy to others is important.
- 97% of tea in Canada is consumed hot; in the United States, 85% of tea is served iced.
- 98% of Canadians cannot name the landmark 1929 judicial decision that allowed women to sit in the Senate.
- 99% of adults say they love their mothers.
- 100% of the population rarely agrees about anything. This is Canada, after all.
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