Table 3.
Housing, neighborhood features, and transportation for overall cohort and stratified by locale
| Overall | Urban | Rural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | (n = 21,491) | (n = 18,744) | (n = 2,747) | p-value | ||
| Housing | ||||||
| House ownership | < 0.001 | |||||
| Own | 84.2 | 82.4 | 91.2 | |||
| Rent | 15.8 | 17.6 | 9.8 | |||
| Dwelling type | < 0.001 | |||||
| House | 77.5 | 73.1 | 93.8 | |||
| Not a house | 22.5 | 26.9 | 6.2 | |||
| Number of people living in the household | < 0.001 | |||||
| None | 27.8 | 29.4 | 21.9 | |||
| 1–2 | 69.2 | 67.6 | 75.4 | |||
| ≥ 3 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2.7 | |||
| Years spent in current home, mean (95%CI) | 22.9 (22.5, 23.2) | 22.5 (22.1, 22.9) | 24.1 (23.2, 25.1) | 0.002 | ||
| Reasons for moving to current location | 0.012 | |||||
| Personal/family related | 43.6 | 43.1 | 45.6 | |||
| Housing related | 35.0 | 35.5 | 32.6 | |||
| Availability of services | 6.9 | 7.2 | 5.5 | |||
| Other | 14.7 | 14.2 | 16.3 | |||
| Satisfied with current housing | 97.3 | 97.4 | 97.2 | 0.682 | ||
| Problems with current home | 0.400 | |||||
| Yes problem | 17.7 | 17.5 | 18.5 | |||
| No problem | 82.3 | 82.5 | 81.5 | |||
| Neighborhood | ||||||
| Yrs. spent in current community, mean (95%CI) | 35.3 (34.8, 35.8) | 35.8 (35.3, 36.4) | 33.5 (32,2, 34.7) | < 0.001 | ||
| Yrs. spent in current community group | < 0.001 | |||||
| ≤24 | 31.8 | 30.4 | 37.3 | |||
| 25–45 | 31.2 | 32.2 | 27.6 | |||
| > 45 | 28.1 | 28.7 | 26.1 | |||
| Not stated a | 8.8 | 8.7 | 9.0 | |||
| Respondents b agreed to statements: | ||||||
| most people in local area are friendly | 98.3 | 98.2 | 98.7 | 0.164 | ||
| local area is kept very clean | 97.4 | 97.2 | 98.0 | 0.090 | ||
| people in local area will not take advantage of them | 96.8 | 96.6 | 97.3 | 0.252 | ||
| most people in local area can be trusted | 96.8 | 96.5 | 97.9 | 0.009 | ||
| lots of people in local area who would help if in trouble | 96.4 | 96.2 | 97.0 | 0.172 | ||
| vandalism or graffiti are not a big problem in local area | 95.2 | 94.5 | 97.9 | < 0.001 | ||
| a part of local area | 94.7 | 94.4 | 95.6 | 0.097 | ||
| not feeling lonely living in local area | 91.6 | 91.7 | 91.1 | 0.444 | ||
| not afraid to walk alone after dark in local area | 88.8 | 87.7 | 88.0 | 0.772 | ||
| Transportation | ||||||
| Most common form of transportation in the past year | ||||||
| Self-driven c | 58.4 | 58.2 | 59.2 | 0.002 | ||
| Other modes | 6.3 | 5.8 | 8.2 | |||
| Not stated a | 35.3 | 36.0 | 32.5 | |||
Note: Proportions (%) reported unless mean (95%CI) stated. CLSA sampling weights were applied to all analyses to adjust for sampling probabilities
a More than 5% cases had missing values and were replaced with “not stated.” For other variables missing values were < 2%
b Missing values were 9.2–11.9% and were replaced with “not stated”, reported % are based on the non-missing cases
c Self-driven includes wheelchair/ motorized scooter/ cycling/ walking