Table 2.

Social participation of overall study cohort and stratified by locale

	Overall		Urban	Rural
Characteristics	(n = 21,491)		(n = 18,744)	(n = 2,747)	p-value
Social participation index, mean (95%CI)	11.3 (11.1, 11.4)		11.3 (11.2, 11.4)	11.0 (10.7, 11.3)	0.034
Desire to participate in more activities,	32.8		33.8	29.0	< 0.001
Reason for not participating in more activities (% of ‘yes’ responses only)
Being too busy	30.9		30.5	32.6	0.408
Health condition/ limitation	23.5		24.2	20.4	0.102
Personal/ family responsibility	15.1		15.0	15.5	0.812
Going alone	13.7		14.0	12.6	0.481
Suitability of activity timing	8.7		8.5	9.8	0.424
Other reasons	11.7		11.7	11.6	0.867

Note: Proportions (%) reported unless mean (95%CI) mentioned. CLSA sampling weights were applied to all analyses to adjust for sampling probabilities