Table 3.
Social participation profiles of classes identified in the LCA.
| Class 1 |
Class 2 |
Class 3 |
Class 4 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relatively |
Moderately |
Moderately |
Highly |
|
| inactive | active (informal) | active (formal) | active | |
| Provide informal support | 0.140 | 0.455 | 0.000 | 0.546 |
| (0.062) | (0.045) | (0.000) | (0.050) | |
| Meet friends weekly | 0.375 | 0.607 | 0.628 | 0.694 |
| (0.047) | (0.029) | (0.050) | (0.016) | |
| Online social network account | 0.130 | 0.133 | 0.180 | 0.224 |
| (0.019) | (0.011) | (0.039) | (0.013) | |
| See child(ren) at least 4 times/month | 0.528 | 0.713 | 0.052 | 0.722 |
| (0.040) | (0.022) | (0.421) | (0.017) | |
| Club or group | 0.024 | 0.381 | 0.808 | 0.941 |
| (0.087) | (0.036) | (0.063) | (0.041) | |
| Volunteer | 0.085 | 0.078 | 0.674 | 1.00 |
| (0.033) | (0.056) | (0.075) | (0.000) | |
| Number of activities | 0.903 | 2.551 | 2.178 | 4.171 |
| (0.606) | (0.826) | (0.383) | (0.847) | |
| Number of observations | 1222 | 2240 | 180 | 1525 |
Source: Swiss Household Panel 2013 and 2016, own calculations. Notes: The table shows the estimated probabilities of members of each class report participating in each of the six social participation activities. For example, the LCA analysis estimates a probability that someone in class 2 provides informal support of 45.5%. Standard errors calculated with the Delta method in brackets. The mean number of activities per class is calculated as a descriptive statistic (standard deviations in parentheses), conditional on individuals being assigned to that class with their highest predicted probability given their social participation responses.