Table 1.
Weighteda proportion (%) and mean characteristics according to sense of community belonging.
| Characteristic | Sense of community belonging |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall (N = 703,304) | Very strong (n = 134,618) | SW strong (n = 349,972) | SW weak (n = 161,499) | Very weak (n = 57,215) | |
|
SRH | |||||
| Excellent/very good | 58.7 | 63.7 | 59.9 | 56.9 | 48.2 |
| Good | 29.3 | 25.9 | 29.2 | 31.3 | 30.9 |
| Fair/poor |
12.0 |
10.4 |
10.9 |
11.8 |
20.8 |
|
SRMH | |||||
| Excellent/very good | 73.4 | 80.3 | 76.0 | 68.8 | 60.7 |
| Good | 21.2 | 16.4 | 20.2 | 24.5 | 25.9 |
| Fair/poor |
5.4 |
3.3 |
3.8 |
6.7 |
13.4 |
|
Sex | |||||
| Female | 50.9 | 51.9 | 51.0 | 50.1 | 50.7 |
| Male |
49.1 |
48.2 |
49.0 |
49.9 |
49.3 |
|
Age group | |||||
| 18–24 | 11.8 | 8.1 | 11.6 | 13.9 | 13.9 |
| 25–29 | 8.7 | 6.0 | 7.9 | 11.1 | 11.0 |
| 30–39 | 17.4 | 13.7 | 17.3 | 19.8 | 17.9 |
| 40–49 | 19.8 | 19.1 | 20.2 | 19.9 | 18.0 |
| 50–59 | 18.2 | 19.3 | 18.1 | 17.7 | 18.3 |
| 60–69 | 12.7 | 16.5 | 12.9 | 10.4 | 11.5 |
| 70–79 | 7.7 | 11.7 | 8.0 | 5.0 | 6.2 |
| 80+ |
3.8 |
5.7 |
4.1 |
2.2 |
3.3 |
|
CCHS Cycle | |||||
| 2003 | 15.4 | 14.8 | 15.2 | 15.7 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 15.9 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 15.9 | 17.1 |
| 2007 | 16.5 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 16.1 | 17.9 |
| 2009 | 17.0 | 17.2 | 17.0 | 16.8 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 17.4 | 17.3 | 17.6 | 17.5 | 16.3 |
| 2013 |
17.9 |
17.8 |
18.3 |
17.9 |
15.6 |
|
Immigrant | |||||
| No | 77.2 | 75.7 | 77.2 | 78.9 | 74.7 |
| Yes |
22.9 |
24.3 |
22.8 |
21.2 |
25.4 |
|
Household income | |||||
| 1 (Lowest) | 15.3 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 14.7 | 20.5 |
| 2 | 17.4 | 18.3 | 17.4 | 16.5 | 18.3 |
| 3 | 30.9 | 31.7 | 31.9 | 29.7 | 28.3 |
| 4 | 20.5 | 18.8 | 20.9 | 21.6 | 17.8 |
| 5 (Highest) |
15.9 |
15.1 |
15.4 |
17.6 |
15.1 |
|
Smoking Status | |||||
| Non-smoker | 54.7 | 56.4 | 56.4 | 52.9 | 47.9 |
| Former | 24.1 | 25.4 | 24.1 | 23.9 | 22.7 |
| Current |
21.2 |
18.2 |
19.5 |
23.2 |
29.3 |
|
Alcohol consumption | |||||
| No past-year | 19.2 | 22.9 | 19.2 | 15.7 | 21.9 |
| Occasional | 16.1 | 15.7 | 15.7 | 16.2 | 18.2 |
| Regular | 29.1 | 31.6 | 29.8 | 27.8 | 24.9 |
| Regular & binge |
35.7 |
29.9 |
35.3 |
40.3 |
34.9 |
|
Physical activityb | |||||
| Active | 24.9 | 28.9 | 25.8 | 22.7 | 19.2 |
| Moderate | 26.8 | 25.8 | 29.2 | 24.9 | 20.8 |
| Inactive |
48.3 |
45.3 |
45.0 |
52.5 |
60.0 |
|
BMI | |||||
| Underweight (<18.5) | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 3.4 |
| Normal (18.5–24.9) | 43.5 | 41.9 | 42.8 | 45.6 | 44.1 |
| Overweight (25–29.9) | 37.5 | 38.3 | 39.0 | 35.2 | 34.0 |
| Mod obese (30–34.9) | 12.0 | 13.0 | 11.6 | 11.8 | 12.4 |
| Very obese (≥35) | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 6.1 |
Abbreviations: BMI body mass index; SRH self-rated general health; SRMH self-rated mental health.
a
Weighted using normalized weights; sampling weights were used to produce population estimates.
b
Physical activity was defined based on total daily energy expenditure values (=number of times a respondent engaged in an activity over a 12-month period * average duration in hours of the activity * MET value/365 days). MET values corresponded to the low intensity value of each activity.