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| 2 | crude and age-adjusted rates of hospitalization due to opioid poisoning, by demographic, geographic and identity characteristics, canada excluding quebec, 2011 to december 31, 2016 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 3 | demographic, geographic, identity characteristics | crude rate per 100,000 | 95% confidence interval |  | age-standardized rate per 100,000 | 95% confidence interval |  | age-standardized rate ratio | 95% confidence interval |  |
| 4 |  |  | from | to |  | from | to |  | from | to |
| 5 | canada exccluding quebec | 11.8 | 11.1 | 12.5 | 12.0 | 11.3 | 12.7 | .. | .. | .. |
| 6 | gender |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 7 | male | 10.0 | 9.1 | 11.0 | 10.2 | 9.3 | 11.2 |  | .. | .. |
| 8 | female | 13.5 | 12.4 | 14.6 | 13.6 | 12.5 | 14.7 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.5 |
| 9 | age group |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 10 | younger than 15 | 3.1 | 2.2 | 3.9 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 11 | 15 to 24 | 10.5 | 8.8 | 12.3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 12 | 25 to44 | 10.0 | 8.8 | 11.2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 13 | 45 to 64 | 16.8 | 15.1 | 18.5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 14 | 65 or older | 17.7 | 15.2 | 20.2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 15 | place of residence |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 16 | large urban population centre | 9.3 | 8.5 | 10.1 | 9.6 | 8.8 | 10.5 |  | .. | .. |
| 17 | medium-size population centre | 23.1 | 19.3 | 26.8 | 23.4 | 19.6 | 27.3 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 2.7 |
| 18 | small population centre | 14.0 | 11.9 | 16.1 | 14.2 | 12.1 | 16.3 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.6 |
| 19 | rural area | 13.0 | 11.3 | 14.8 | 12.7 | 11.1 | 14.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.4 |
| 20 | visible minority |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 21 | visible minority | 2.6 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 2.2 | 3.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| 22 | not visible minority | 13.2 | 12.3 | 14.2 | 13.0 | 12.0 | 13.9 |  | .. | .. |
| 23 | indigenous identity group |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 24 | first nations | 34.1 | 29.7 | 38.5 | 41.7 | 36.2 | 47.3 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.1 |
| 25 | on reserve | 47.6 | 42.7 | 52.5 | 61.2 | 54.5 | 68.0 | 5.6 | 5.3 | 6.0 |
| 26 | off reserve | 26.4 | 20.2 | 32.6 | 30.9 | 23.2 | 38.6 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 3.0 |
| 27 | metis | 24.8 | 15.3 | 34.3 | 34.3 | 15.0 | 53.6 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 3.4 |
| 28 | inuit | 22.7 | -1.8 | 47.2 | 35.1 | -9.3 | 79.5 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.5 |
| 29 | non-indigenous | 10.8 | 10.1 | 11.5 | 10.9 | 10.1 | 11.6 |  | .. | .. |

Question: what was the age-standardized rates of hop lower among visible minorities or among people who were not members of visible minority groups?
Answer: visible minority