Table 2.

Linear regression models on life expectancy at birth (female) and measures of rurality, adjusting for socioeconomic deprivation and social isolation, Nova Scotia 2003–2007

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4a	Model 4b	Model 4c	Model 4d	Model 4e	Model 4f	Model 4g
Intercept	83.01***	84.11***	83.59***	82.94***	82.79***	83.06***	83.01***	82.96***	83.14***	83.01***
	(82.07, 83.94)	(82.84, 85.39)	(82.54, 84.64)	(81.99, 83.89)	(81.72, 83.86)	(82.13, 83.99)	(82.07, 83.96)	(82.00, 83.92)	(82.21, 84.08)	(82.07, 83.95)
Material deprivation	-0.257*	-0.014	-0.091	-0.210	-0.227	-0.225	-0.260*	-0.251*	-0.146	-0.248*
	(-0.493, -0.021)	(-0.315, 0.288)	(-0.362, 0.178)	(-0.465, -0.045)	(-0.473, 0.020)	(-0.463, 0.012)	(-0.499, -0.021)	(-0.489, -0.014)	(-0.402, 0.11)	(-0.495, -0.002)
Social isolation	-0.349**	-0.483***	-0.439***	-0.391**	-0.321*	-0.427**	-0.346**	-0.350**	-0.412***	-0.355**
	(-0.585, -0.113)	(-0.738, -0.227)	(-0.683, -0.194)	(-0.642, -0.140)	(-0.566, -0.076)	(-0.680, -0.175)	(-0.586, -0.106)	(-0.587, -0.113)	(-0.653, -0.171)	(-0.585, -0.114)
Rurality		-0.298*
		(-0.533, -0.063)
Urban vs rural			-1.067*
			(-1.953, -0.180)
Community types
Metro				0.656
				(-0.703, 2.015)
Suburb					0.55
					(-0.749, 1.851)
Big satellite town						1.099
						(-0.204, 2.402)
Mid-size town							-0.095
							(-1.266, 1.076)
Small town								0.189
								(-0.668, 1.046)
Settlement clusters									-0.788*
									(-1.535, -0.042)
Sparse settlements										-0.119
										(-1.109, 0.870)
Adjusted R 2	0.076	0.103	0.100	0.075	0.074	0.0851	0.071	0.072	0.093	0.071
F (Pr > F)	8.35 (0.0003)	7.82 (<0.0001)	7.59 (<0.0001)	5.87 (0.0008)	5.79 (0.0008)	6.55 (0.0003)	5.55 (0.0012)	5.61 (0.0011)	7.12 (0.0002)	5.56 (0.0011)

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.