Table 7.

Results of ordinal logit regression analyses of sense of belonging to local community^a (Community Perceptions)

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
	All respondents		Canadian-born		Immigrants
Independent variables	Odds ratios	95 % CI	Odds ratios	95 % CI	Odds ratios	95 % CI
Quality of schools in neighbourhood
Excellent	1.681d	1.17–2.39	1.604c	1.06–2.42	2.156c	1.04-4.45
Very good	1.212	0.91–1.61	1.191	0.84–1.67	1.555	0.87–2.75
Good	Reference		Reference		Reference
Fair/poor	0.700	0.48–1.02	0.754	0.48–1.18	0.545	0.26–1.13
Not sure	0.831	0.61–1.11	0.830	0.58–1.18	1.00	0.57–1.76
Quality of recreation programs in neighbourhood
Excellent	1.759d	1.18–2.60	2.394d	1.53–3.72	0.676	0.26–1.73
Very good	1.051	0.80–1.36	1.231	0.90–1.67	0.750	0.42–1.32
Good	Reference		Reference		Reference
Fair/poor	0.596d	0.43–0.81	0.542d	0.36–0.80	0.651	0.37–1.13
Not sure	0.783	0.54–1.13	0.856	0.54–1.35	0.617	0.32-1.18
Know neighbours on first name basis?
Very true	2.336d	1.62–3.36	2.260d	1.45–3.50	2.976d	1.48–5.97
Fairly true	1.433c	1.01–2.01	1.406	0.93–2.12	1.875c	1.00–3.51
Neutral	Reference		Reference		Reference
Not very true	1.144	0.75–1.72	1.316	0.79–2.19	0.917	0.44–1.88
Not at all true	0.920	0.58–1.45	1.024	0.58–1.80	0.982	0.43–2.21
Participate in social activities with neighbours?
All the time/often	1.841d	1.36–2.49	1.987d	1.39–2.82	1.299	0.70–2.40
Sometimes	Reference		Reference		Reference
Hardly ever	0.778b	0.58–1.03	0.714c	0.51–0.99	0.969	0.54–1.73
Never	0.345d	0.25–0.46	0.275d	0.18–0.40	0.457d	0.26–0.79
Agree that most people can be trusted?
Very much	1.216	0.95–1.55	1.006	0.75–1.33	1.819c	1.08–3.05
Somewhat	Reference		Reference		Reference
A little	0.750b	0.55–1.01	0.720b	0.50–1.03	0.829	0.46–1.47
Not much	0.648c	0.44–0.94	0.516d	0.33–0.80	1.145	0.56–2.32
City
Hamilton	Reference		Reference		Reference
Charlottetown	0.953	0.71–1.26	0.994	0.71–1.37	0.962	0.49-1.87
Saskatoon	0.894	0.70–1.12	0.814	0.61–1.07	1.758c	1.04-2.94
Years lived in Canada
5 or less	Reference		Reference		Reference
6 to 10	--		--		1.450	0.62–3.37
10 or more	--		--		1.654c	0.93–2.91
Observations	1,486		1,092		394
Pseudo R2	0.1077		0.1263		0.1005

^aThe dependent variable is sense of belonging to local community using a 4 point scale: 1-very weak, 2-somewhat weak, 3-somewhat strong, 4-very strong. The model used for estimation is Ordered Logit. Confidence intervals indicated. (^b) significant at 10 %, (^c) significant at 5 %, (^d) significant at 1 %. Reference categories are included in the table