Refers to a student's internal sense of being a man, woman, both, neither, or anywhere on the gender spectrum. This sense of self is separate from sex assigned at birth and is not necessarily visible to others.
Transgender, gender diverse, and/or questioning
Includes students whose gender identity differs from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth; students whose gender identity is neither exclusively man nor woman; students who experience fluidity with respect to gender identity; and students who indicated some degree of uncertainty with respect to their gender identity (questioning).
Current smoking
Includes students who have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime, and includes the following:
Current daily smoking - students who reported current smoking and have smoked at least one cigarette per day for each of the 30 days preceding the survey.
Current occasional smoking - students who reported current smoking and have smoked at least one cigarette during the past 30 days, but have not smoked every day.
Former smoking
Includes students who have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and have not smoked at all during the past 30 days.
Experimental smoking
Includes students who have smoked at least one whole cigarette, have not smoked 100 or more cigarettes in their lifetime, and have smoked in the last 30 days.
Former experimental smoking
Includes students who have smoked at least one whole cigarette, have not smoked 100 or more cigarettes in their lifetime, and have not smoked at all in the past 30 days.
Past 30-day smoking
Includes students who have smoked one or more cigarettes in the past 30 days. This category includes students who reported current smoking or experimental smoking who have smoked one or more cigarettes in the past 30 days.
Tried smoking, but never smoked a whole cigarette
Includes students who have tried just a few puffs of a cigarette, but have never smoked a whole cigarette.
Ever tried a cigarette
Includes students who have ever tried a cigarette, even just a few puffs.
Never tried a cigarette
Includes students who have never tried a cigarette, not even just a few puffs.
E-Cigarettes
Battery-operated devices that mimic the act and taste of smoking cigarettes but do not contain tobacco. E-cigarettes include vaporizers with e-juice, vape pen, tank, or mod and are available with or without nicotine.
Tobacco Products
Products made in whole or in part of tobacco, including tobacco leaves. This includes cigarettes, cigars, little cigars or cigarillos, heated tobacco products, smokeless tobacco, and waterpipe tobacco. E-cigarettes are excluded.
Vaporizing (vaping) Cannabis
a method of administration of cannabis whereby a cannabis product or by-product is heated below the temperature of combustion, thus turned into vapour (not smoke), and inhaled by a person. This could include vaporizing dried cannabis flower or vaping cannabis liquid using a vape pen.
Dabbing Cannabis
a method of administration of a cannabis concentrate by inhaling the vapours produced as a result of contact of the concentrate with a very hot surface.
Prevalence
is the proportion of a group or population reporting the indicated behaviour or outcome, usually expressed as a percentage.
Study Sample
a group drawn from a larger population to estimate the characteristics of the whole population.
Statistically Significant
the observed relationship between two or more variables is unlikely due to chance alone.
Weighted Results
weighting is the statistical technique used to allow the study sample to be representative of the target population; in other words, any participant's response is weighted so that it represents a specific number of identical responses in the target population.
95% confidence interval
provides a range of values in which the estimated prevalence will fall 95% of the time (i.e., if the survey was repeated 20 times, the results would fall within this range 19 of those times, or 19 times out of 20).
