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Table 4 Barriers 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

Barrier

Canadian region

B.C.

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]

Want to participate more

30.1a

22.9a††

26.7A

30.0a

24.6a

27.5A

28.3a

21.1a†††

25.0A

20.4a

16.2a

18.5A

26.9a

21.5a††

24.5A

26.6

20.7†††

23.9

[26.0,34.2]

[19.2,26.6]

[23.8,29.7]

[26.9,33.2]

[21.7,27.5]

[25.5,29.6]

[25.4,31.2]

[18.1,24.0]

[22.9,27.1]

[17.6,23.2]

[13.2,19.2]

[16.4,20.6]

[24.4,29.3]

[18.8,24.2]

[22.6,26.3]

[25.0,28.2]

[19.1,22.2]

[22.8,25.1]

Personal barriers

 Health limitation

32.0a

39.4a

34.9A

35.5a

27.6a

32.2A

37.1a

32.2a

35.2A

28.8a

32.5a

30.2A

40.9a

37.5a

39.5A

34.7

33.0

34.0

[25.4,38.5]

[29.4,49.4]

[29.2,40.7]

[29.7,41.3]

[21.9,0.0]

[28.0,36.5]

[32.1,42.2]

[25.6,38.7]

[31.2,39.3]

[22.7,35.0]

[23.9,41.0]

[25.1,35.4]

[35.9,45.8]

[30.6,44.4]

[35.4,43.7]

[31.9,37.6]

[29.4,36.5]

[31.8,36.3]

 Too busy

17.8a

24.6ab

20.5A

20.5a

28.0ab

23.6A

16.9a

30.7a††

22.2A

11.8a

31.9ab†††

19.4A

11.3a

16.9b

13.5A

16.2

28.4†††

20.9

[12.1,23.5]

[14.0,35.2]

[14.8,26.3]

[14.9,26.1]

[21.1,34.9]

[19.1,28.0]

[12.5,21.4]

[24.1,37.4]

[18.6,25.8]

[6.9,16.7]

[22.3,41.4]

[14.1,24.8]

[7.4,15.3]

[11.4,22.4]

[10.3,16.7]

[13.7,18.7]

[24.6,32.2]

[18.8,23.1]

 Not want to go alone

15.2a

15.0a

15.1A

22.1a

8.0a†††

16.3A

16.1a

7.5a††

12.9A

15.4a

8.9a

12.9A

15.2a

7.3a††

12.1A

16.7

9.0†††

13.7

[9.0,21.3]

[7.0,23.0]

[9.8,20.4]

[16.9,27.3]

[3.2,12.7]

[12.6,20.0]

[11.5,20.8]

[4.1,10.8]

[9.8,15.9]

[10.6,20.1]

[4.2,13.7]

[9.3,16.5]

[11.5,18.9]

[4.1,10.5]

[9.5,14.7]

[14.2,19.2]

[6.8,11.3]

[12.0,15.5]

 Personal responsibilities

12.1a

8.5a

10.7A

7.5a

9.6a

8.4A

10.6a

13.6a

11.7A

12.1a

4.6

9.2A

7.2a

10.5a

8.5A

10.4

10.1

10.3

[6.8,17.5]

[3.5,13.4]

[6.7,14.6]

[4.8,10.3]

[5.5,13.6]

[6.2,10.6]

[6.7,14.5]

[7.2,20.0]

[8.4,15.0]

[4.4,19.9]

[1.3,7.9]

[4.0,14.5]

[4.3,10.1]

[3.7,17.2]

[5.3,11.6]

[8.0,12.7]

[7.2,13.0]

[8.4,12.1]

Environmental barriers

 Cost

9.5a

6.4a

8.3A

7.4a

5.3a

6.6A

8.7a

10.3a

9.3A

9.5a

6.1a

8.2A

5.9a

4.4a

5.3A

8.6

7.5

8.2

[4.1,15.0]

[2.3,10.5]

[4.8,11.8]

[4.3,10.6]

[2.1,8.5]

[4.3,8.8]

[4.3,13.1]

[4.4,16.3]

[5.7,12.9]

[5.6,13.4]

[2.0,10.3]

[5.4,11.0]

[3.1,8.7]

[1.6,7.2]

[3.4,7.3]

[6.4,10.7]

[4.8,10.3]

[6.5,9.9]

 Time not suitable

8.1a

8.0a

8.1A

6.8a

8.6a

7.5A

8.1a

6.8a

7.6A

9.9a

4.2a

7.7A

6.7a

5.7a

6.3A

8.1

6.7

7.6

[3.5,12.6]

[3.6,12.4]

[4.7,11.4]

[3.9,9.7]

[4.9,12.4]

[5.1,10.0]

[4.5,11.8]

[3.5,10.1]

[4.9,10.3]

[4.6,15.2]

[0.6,7.9]

[4.2,11.3]

[3.9,9.6]

[2.7,8.6]

[4.3,8.4]

[6.2,10.1]

[5.0,8.5]

[6.2,9.0]

 Unavailability

5.4a

10.1a

7.3A

8.8a

5.4a

7.4A

7.5a

5.4a

6.7A

9.2a

8.1a

8.8A

11.5a

10.2a

11.0A

8.0

7.0

7.6

[2.0,8.8]

[4.9,15.2]

[4.5,10.0]

[6.1,11.5]

[3.0,7.8]

[5.6,9.2]

[4.6,10.3]

[2.4,8.3]

[4.6,8.8]

[4.5,13.9]

[2.4,13.7]

[5.2,12.4]

[7.9,15.2]

[5.9,14.5]

[8.1,13.9]

[6.4,9.7]

[5.2,8.8]

[6.4,8.9]

 Too far

6.2a

3.6a

5.2A

4.7a

7.1a

5.7A

6.3a

1.8a

4.6A

5.1a

6.6a

5.7A

4.0a

5.1a

4.4A

5.6

4.2

5.0

[2.0,10.5]

[0.0,7.4]

[2.4,8.0]

[2.4,7.1]

[1.6,12.6]

[3.1,8.3]

[3.0,9.5]

[0.1,3.4]

[2.5,6.6]

[1.8,8.4]

[1.6,11.5]

[2.9,8.4]

[2.2,5.7]

[2.2,8.0]

[2.9,5.9]

[4.0,7.2]

[2.5,5.9]

[3.8,6.3]

 Other

10.4a

13.8a

11.7A

9.7a

17.5a

12.9A

9.0a

12.8a

10.5A

7.2a

8.9a

7.8A

7.9a

10.8a

9.1A

8.9

12.9††

10.4

[5.0,15.8]

[7.0,20.5]

[7.3,16.2]

[6.7,12.8]

[12.2,22.7]

[10.0,15.8]

[6.0,12.0]

[8.6,16.9]

[8.0,12.9]

[3.5,10.9]

[3.9,13.9]

[4.7,10.9]

[5.4,10.5]

[6.4,15.3]

[6.7,11.4]

[7.2,10.6]

[10.5,15.3]

[9.1,11.8]

  1. Cells that share a letter are not significantly different (p > 0.05, Bonferroni adjusted): lowercase between W/Region; lowercase italic between M/Region; uppercase between Region. † 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