To correlate with my glue story, I researched some data regarding impaired driving trends in Canada, by province.
The numbers were drawn from 2011 police records and were collected from the Statistics Canada website here.
This is the most recent, credible information on impaired driving in Canada.
In Ontario, approximately 100 people were injured and over 20 were killed in a total of 17,326 impaired driving incidents during the year of 2011.
These numbers are second only to our neighbouring province, Quebec, which saw more than triple the number of injuries.
According to the latest studies, the province of Quebec has the highest rate of injuries and death caused by impaired driving. Among the 16,820 impaired driving incidents that year, 349 people were injured and 25 were killed.
British Columbia, however, held the largest number of total incidents at 18,835 but had only 70 injuries and 14 deaths as a cause of impaired driving.
In researching the population of all provinces in Canada during 2011 I found that Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec had the four highest populations. These four provinces also had the highest number of impaired driving incidents in the country.
The population data was found at the link below.
http://http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table-tableau.cfm?LANG=Eng&T=101&S=50&O=A
Based on this correlation, it could be said that a higher population will likely cause more impaired driving accidents.
The three provinces with lowest populations, Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut also happen to have the three lowest impaired driving rates as well. They also have three of the fewest injuries and deaths related to driving under the influence.
While the four top populated areas have four of the highest injury and death rates.
What I found most interesting in the data was the percentage rate of change in impaired driving between the years of 2001-2011. Only two provinces had a negative rate of change, meaning less people were driving impaired. Ontario had a -28% rate of change in impaired driving while Quebec had an -18% rate of change.
The most shocking of the numbers is Newfoundland and Labrador, which had a 69% increase in impaired driving from 2001-2011. The Northwest Territories were not far behind with an increase of 58%.
Interactive graphs displaying the information can be found here:
https://infogr.am/impaired_driving_canada