Table 2.
Descriptive Statistics of Independent Variables by Each Class of Social Activities
| Independent variables | Social activity patterns |
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| Class 1 | Class 2 | Class 3 | |
| Sociodemographics | |||
| Age in years, M | 77.0 | 76.2 | 74.6 |
| Race (White), % | 75.8 | 86.8 | 92.9 |
| Gender (female), % | 57.7 | 65.6 | 61.3 |
| Education, M | 1.73 | 1.94 | 2.36 |
| Marital status (married), % | 47.3 | 51.8 | 60.1 |
| Income, M | 13.9 | 14.7 | 17.7 |
| Residential relocation, % | 3.82 | 6.21 | 6.03 |
| Health measures | |||
| Medical comorbidity | 2.27 | 2.45 | 2.11 |
| Functional limitation | 3.12 | 2.44 | 1.33 |
| Functional dependency | 2.74 | 1.59 | 0.54 |
| Self-rated health | 2.86 | 3.15 | 3.59 |
Note: All p values were lower than .001, which means that the associations or differences were statistically significant.