Group involvement and self-rated health among the Japanese elderly: an examination of bonding and bridging social capital

Table 2 The distribution of the number of group involvement and poor self-rated health stratified by sex

Men						Women
Total			Poor self-rated health			Total		Poor self-rated health
N		%^a	N	%^b	P_trend	N	%^a	N	%^b	P_trend
The number of total group involvement
0	878	22.27	495	50.05		2032	30.31	899	44.24
1	830	18.69	270	32.53		1458	21.74	462	31.69
2	837	18.85	212	25.33		1293	19.28	295	22.82
3	709	15.96	152	21.44		978	14.59	171	17.48
4	568	12.79	98	17.25		575	8.58	99	17.22
5	338	7.61	68	20.12		269	4.01	36	13.38
6	170	3.83	35	20.59	<0.001	100	1.49	12	12.00	<0.001
The number of bonding group involvement
0	3058	68.86	1009	33.00		4681	69.81	1554	33.20
1	905	20.38	231	25.52		1301	19.40	294	22.60
2	319	7.18	61	19.12		503	7.50	91	18.09
3	105	2.36	18	17.14		159	2.37	24	15.09
4	34	0.77	8	23.53		45	0.67	10	22.22
5	15	0.34	2	13.33		12	0.18	1	8.33
6	5	0.11	1	20.00	<0.001	4	0.06	0	0.00	<0.001
The number of bridging group involvement
0	1319	29.70	582	44.12		2752	41.04	1083	39.35
1	1022	23.01	303	29.65		1677	25.01	461	27.49
2	822	18.51	191	23.24		1103	16.45	234	21.21
3	624	14.05	126	20.19		641	9.56	121	18.88
4	377	8.49	77	20.42		336	5.01	52	15.48
5	194	4.37	40	20.62		151	2.25	18	11.92
6	83	1.87	11	13.25	<0.001	45	0.67	5	11.11	<0.001

^aWe show proportions of each category among the total numbers.
^bWe show proportions of those who reported poor health respondents among each category.

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