Social participation in older women and men: differences in community activities and barriers according to region and population size in Canada

Daniel Naud; Mélissa Généreux; Jean-François Bruneau; Aline Alauzet; Mélanie Levasseur

doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7462-1

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Social participation by region and gender

From: Social participation in older women and men: differences in community activities and barriers according to region and population size in Canada

Activity	Canadian region
	British Columbia			Prairies			Ontario			Quebec			Atlantic			Canada
	n = 2042			n = 3741			n = 3496			n = 2730			n = 4265			n = 16,274
	W	M	Total	W	M	Total	W	M	Total	W	M	Total	W	M	Total	W	M	Total
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]	[95% CI]
Family / friends	5.2^ab	4.9^a	5.0^AB	5.4^ab	5.4^a	5.4^B	4.9^ab	4.8^a	4.8^AB	4.3^b	4.4^a	4.3^A	4.6^b	4.4^a	4.5^A	4.8	4.8	4.8
Family / friends	[4.8,5.6]	[4.5,5.3]	[4.8,5.3]	[5.1,5.7]	[5.0,6.0]	[5.1,5.6]	[4.6,5.2]	[4.5,5.1]	[4.6,5.0]	[4.0,5.0]	[4.1,4.8]	[4.1,4.6]	[4.3,4.9]	[4.1,4.7]	[4.3,4.8]	[4.7,5.0]	[4.6,4.9]	[4.7,4.9]
Religious	2.1^a	2.0^a	2.1^A	3.1^ab	2.5^ab††	2.8^BC	2.9^bc	2.7^ab	2.8^C	2.6^a	2.3^ab	2.5^AB	3.5^c	2.9^b†††	3.2^C	2.8	2.5^†††	2.7
Religious	[1.8,2.4]	[1.6,2.3]	[1.8,2.3]	[2.8,3.3]	[2.3,3.0]	[2.7,3.0]	[2.7,3.1]	[2.4,3.0]	[2.6,3.0]	[2.4,3.0]	[2.1,2.5]	[2.3,2.6]	[3.3,3.7]	[2.7,3.1]	[3.1,3.4]	[2.7,2.9]	[2.3,2.6]	[2.6,2.7]
Physical	2.8^b	2.6^abc	2.7^A	2.2^a	2.8^a††	2.4^A	2.0^ab	2.2^bc	2.1^A	2.3^ab	2.5^abc	2.3^A	1.8^ab	2.0^c	1.9^A	2.2	2.4^†	2.3
Physical	[2.3,3.2]	[2.3,3.0]	[2.4,3.0]	[1.9,2.5]	[2.5,3.0]	[2.2,2.7]	[1.8,2.2]	[1.9,2.5]	[1.9,2.0]	[1.9,3.0]	[2.1,2.8]	[2.1,2.6]	[1.6,2.0]	[1.8,2.3]	[1.7,2.1]	[2,2.3.0]	[2.2,2.6]	[2.2,2.4]
Volunteering	1.5^a	1.5^ab	1.5^B	1.5^ab	1.6^ab	1.5^AB	1.3^ab	1.2^ab	1.3^AB	1.3^a	1.5^a	1.4^B	1.4^b	1.5^b	1.5^A	1.4	1.4	1.4
Volunteering	[1.3,1.8]	[1.2,1.8]	[1.3,1.7]	[1.4,1.7]	[1.3,2.0]	[1.4,1.7]	[1.1,1.5]	[1.0,1.4]	[1.1,1.0]	[1.1,2.0]	[1.2,1.8]	[1.2,1.6]	[1.2,1.6]	[1.3,1.8]	[1.3,1.6]	[1.3,1.5]	[1.3,1.5]	[1.3,1.5]
Educational	1.2^a	1.1^a	1.2^A	1.1^a	1.1^a	1.1^A	1.0^a	0.9^a	1.0^A	1.1^a	1.0^a	1.0^B	0.8^a	0.8^a	0.8^AB	1.1	1.0	1.0
Educational	[1.1,1.4]	[0.9,1.3]	[1.1,1.3]	[1.0,1.2]	[0.9,1.0]	[1.0,1.2]	[0.9,1.1]	[0.8,1.0]	[0.9,1.0]	[0.9,1.0]	[0.8,1.1]	[0.9,1.2]	[0.7,0.9]	[0.6,0.9]	[0.7,0.8]	[1.0,1.1]	[0.9,1.0]	[1.0,1.1]
Associations	1.1^a	0.9^a	1.0^A	1.1^a	1.0^a	1.1^A	0.8^a	0.9^a	0.9^A	0.7^a	0.7^a	0.7^A	0.8^a	0.9^a	0.9^A	0.9	0.9	0.9
Associations	[0.9,1.2]	[0.7,1.1]	[0.9,1.1]	[0.9,1.3]	[0.8,1.0]	[0.9,1.2]	[0.7,1.0]	[0.7,1.0]	[0.8,1.0]	[0.5,1.0]	[0.6,0.9]	[0.6,0.8]	[0.7,0.9]	[0.7,1.0]	[0.8,1.0]	[0.8,0.9]	[0.8,0.9]	[0.8,0.9]
Clubs	0.6^a	0.7^a	0.6^A	0.8^a	1.0^a	0.9^A	0.6^a	0.7^a	0.7^A	1.1^a	1.2^a	1.1^A	0.7^a	1.0^a††	0.8^A	0.8	0.9	0.8
Clubs	[0.4,0.7]	[0.5,0.9]	[0.5,0.7]	[0.7,1.0]	[0.8,1.0]	[0.8,1.0]	[0.5,0.7]	[0.6,0.8]	[0.6,1.0]	[0.9,1.0]	[0.9,1.4]	[1.0,1.3]	[0.6,0.8]	[0.8,1.2]	[0.7,0.9]	[0.7,0.8]	[0.8,1.0]	[0.8,0.9]
Other recreational	1.6a	1.5^a	1.5^A	1.8^a	1.7^a	1.8^AB	1.6^a	1.5^a	1.6^AB	1.7^a	1.3^a†	1.5^AB	2.1	1.8^a†	1.9^B	1.7	1.5^††	1.6
Other recreational	[1.4,1.9]	[1.2,1.7]	[1.4,1.7]	[1.7,2.0]	[1.4,2.0]	[1.6,1.9]	[1.4,1.8]	[1.3,1.7]	[1.4,2.0]	[1.5,2.0]	[1.1,1.5]	[1.4,1.7]	[1.8,2.3]	[1.6,2.0]	[1.8,2.1]	[1.6,1.8]	[1.4,1.6]	[1.5,1.7]
Total	16.0^a	14.8^a	15.5^A	16.6^a	16.6^a	16.6^A	15.0^a	14.7^a	14.9^A	14.9^a	14.8^a	14.8^A	15.5^a	15.1^a	15.3^A	15.4	15.1	15.2
	[14.9,17.1]	[13.7,15.9]	[14.6,16.3]	[15.8,17.3]	[15.7,18]	[15.9,17.3]	[14.4,15.7]	[13.9,15.6]	[14.3,15.0]	[13.6,16.0]	[13.7,15.9]	[14.0,15.7]	[14.9,16.2]	[14.3,15.9]	[14.8,15.9]	[14.9,15.9]	[14.6,15.5]	[14.9,15.6]

Cells that share a letter are not significantly different (p > 0.05, Bonferroni adjusted): lowercase between W/Regions; lowercase italic between M/Regions; uppercase between Regions. † Men are significantly different than women († p < 0.05, †† p < 0.01, ††† p < 0.001). n is the unweighted sample size after removing missing observations

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