Table 2.

Distribution of social capital and Health Related Quality of Life variables among study populations, by socio-demographic characteristics.

Variable	Trust in the people of your neighborhood.	Rely on your neighbors for help if someone is destructive to a nearby place.	People in your neighborhood share the same values?	People in your neighborhood try to take to advantage of you?	HRQOL physical dimension	HRQOL mental dimension
	% Quite a lot, very much	% Quite a lot, very much	% Quite a lot, very much	% Quite a lot, very much	Mean(SD)	Mean(SD)
All participants	20.1	24.9	20.4	7.1	44.9(10.2)	47.5(10.0)
Gender
Male	22.0	26.7	21.3	7.3	46.9(9.7)**	49.1(9.3)**
Female	19.0	23.7	19.8	7.0	43.7(10.3)	46.6(10.4)
Age groups
60–74 y	19.7	25.0	19.7	7.8	46.0(9.8)**	47.9(9.8)*
75–98 y	21.0	24.6	22.0	5.4	42.4(10.7)	46.6(10.5)
Years of residence
1 to 5 y	16.3	20.7	14.0*	4.0*	43.8(10.5)	46.8(9.9)
5 years and more	20.7	25.5	21.4	7.6	45.1(10.1)	47.7(10.0)
Educational attainment
Less than complete secondary	18.3	20.9*	15.8**	7.7	42.7(10.3)**	46.0(10.5)**
Complete secondary or more	21.6	27.9	23.9	6.6	46.6(9.8)	48.7(9.6)
Living arrangements
Living with spouse	21.9	26.1	21.2	7.1	46.0(9.8)**	48.5(9.5)**
Living with family member or friend	17.7	22.9	19.9	6.8	43.9(10.6)	47.0(10.3)
Living alone	21.4	26.7	17.8	8.3	43.9(10.3)	44.6(10.8)
Walking from your house, how far do the members of your family live?
Very far, far, neither far nor close	17.5**	23.0*	19.5	7.5	44.3(10.3)*	47.2(10.1)*
Close, very close	25.9	28.8	23.1	5.8	45.9(9.9)	48.3(9.8)
Neighborhood SES
Low	.17.1*	22.7	13.9**	8.4	43.5(10.4)**	47.2(10.3)
Middle-low and middle-high	22.1	26.3	24.7	6.3	45.8(10.0)	47.8(9.9)

HRQOL: Quality of life scores ranged from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating higher QOL

^*p<0.05

^**p<0.001.

The p values were obtained by Chi square test of independence in social capital variables and by ANOVA and T-test in HRQOL