Towards cross-Canada monitoring of the unregulated street drug supply

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Demographics of survey participants in three pilot sites, 2018/2019

	BC n (%^a)	Edmonton n (%^a)	Montreal n (%^a)
Number of sites	27 (100.0)	1 (100.0)	12 (100.0)
Participants	486 (100.0)	49 (100.0)	343 (100.0)
Gender
Male	301 (62.3)	37 (75.5)	205 (68.8)
Female	173 (35.8)	12 (24.5)	88 (29.5)
Other	9 (1.9)	0 (0.0)	5 (1.7)
Age (median)^b	41	48	35–44
Number of substances reported used^c (median)	2	3	2

^aPercentages exclude missing data from the denominator
^bThe survey used in Montreal presented age as a categorical variable with the following age groups: 18–24, 25–34, 35–44, 45–54, 55–64, and 65+. The greatest percentage of participants were between 35 and 44 years (35%); this has been used as a proxy median value for comparison
^cExcluding alcohol and cannabis

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