Table 2.

Logistic regressions of living alone, not having gone out in the past week and never using the internet, by gender.

	Lives alone		Did not go out in the last 7 days		Does not use the internet
	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men
	aOR [95% CI]	aOR [95% CI]	aOR [95% CI]	aOR [95% CI]	aOR [95% CI]	aOR [95% CI]
Age
65–69 (ref)	1	1	1	1	1	1
70–74	1.16 [1.04; 1.29]	0.87 [0.76; 1.00]	1.18 [1.00; 1.39]	1.49 [1.22; 1.81]	1.59 [1.35; 1.87]	1.49 [1.24; 1.79]
75–79	1.70 [1.50; 1.93]	0.90 [0.75; 1.07]	1.91 [1.59; 2.29]	2.11 [1.70; 2.63]	3.33 [2.80; 3.97]	2.52 [2.06; 3.08]
80–84	2.54 [2.19; 2.95]	1.08 [0.89; 1.32]	2.59 [2.12; 3.17]	3.08 [2.43; 3.90]	6.80 [5.64; 8.21]	4.66 [3.76; 5.77]
85 +	5.17 [4.38; 6.11]	2.38 [1.93; 2.93]	7.86 [6.41; 9.64]	7.29 [5.70; 9.31]	16.33 [13.21; 20.18]	10.47 [8.25; 13.28]
Formal education
No diploma	0.74 [0.62; 0.88]	0.69 [0.53; 0.88]	2.58 [2.07; 3.23]	1.64 [1.24; 2.17]	9.84 [7.85; 12.34]	11.99 [9.09; 15.82]
Primary education	0.87 [0.76; 1.00]	0.92 [0.76; 1.12]	1.61 [1.32; 1.96]	1.69 [1.32; 2.16]	3.83 [3.13; 4.69]	3.93 [3.02; 5.11]
Vocational secondary	0.78 [0.68; 0.90]	0.78 [0.66; 0.93]	1.41 [1.15; 1.74]	1.27 [1.00; 1.60]	1.88 [1.51; 2.34]	3.26 [2.53; 4.19]
High school (ref)	1	1	1	1	1	1
High school + 2–4 years	1.07 [0.93; 1.23]	0.94 [0.78; 1.13]	0.91 [0.72; 1.15]	0.83 [0.63; 1.10]	0.90 [0.70; 1.16]	0.95 [0.68; 1.32]
High school + 5 or more years	1.03 [0.83; 1.26]	0.91 [0.74; 1.12]	0.86 [0.60; 1.23]	1.02 [0.76; 1.36]	0.37 [0.22; 0.63]	0.63 [0.43; 0.94]
Perceived financial situation
Comfortable (ref)	1	1	1	1	1	1
Decent	1.45 [1.28; 1.65]	0.86 [0.73; 1.00]	0.96 [0.81; 1.15]	1.21 [0.98; 1.49]	1.03 [0.85; 1.24]	1.21 [0.98; 1.50]
Just enough	2.21 [1.92; 2.54]	1.18 [0.99; 1.40]	1.06 [0.87; 1.29]	1.38 [1.10; 1.74]	1.35 [1.11; 1.65]	1.68 [1.34; 2.11]
Difficult to impossible without going into debt	3.85 [3.12; 4.76]	2.24 [1.72; 2.93]	1.04 [0.77; 1.40]	1.41 [0.97; 2.03]	1.53 [1.15; 2.04]	1.51 [1.08; 2.12]
Population size of municipality
Rural area	0.61 [0.53; 0.70]	1.05 [0.86; 1.28]	1.60 [1.30; 1.96]	1.46 [1.14; 1.88]	1.34 [1.11; 1.64]	1.56 [1.24; 1.97]
<50,000 inhabitants	0.81 [0.71; 0.93]	1.02 [0.84; 1.24]	1.19 [0.97; 1.46]	1.14 [0.88; 1.47]	1.24 [1.02; 1.50]	1.30 [1.03; 1.64]
[50,000–200,000] inhabitants (ref)	1	1	1	1	1	1
>200,000 inhabitants	0.98 [0.85; 1.12]	1.12 [0.92; 1.37]	1.11 [0.90; 1.37]	1.27 [0.98; 1.65]	1.04 [0.85; 1.27]	1.11 [0.87; 1.42]
Paris	1.02 [0.87; 1.21]	1.15 [0.91; 1.46]	0.82 [0.63; 1.07]	1.19 [0.88; 1.62]	0.89 [0.70; 1.14]	0.89 [0.66; 1.21]
Household composition
Living alone (ref)			1	1	1	1
With a partner and with or without children			1.12 [0.97; 1.29]	1.14 [0.93; 1.41]	0.78 [0.69; 0.89]	0.64 [0.54; 0.77]
Other compositions			1.72 [1.41; 2.10]	1.81 [1.33; 2.47]	1.05 [0.86; 1.28]	0.97 [0.73; 1.30]
Ethno-racial status
Mainstream population (ref)	1	1	1	1	1	1
Racialized first or second-generation immigrants and DOM descendants	0.70 [0.54; 0.90]	0.72 [0.53; 0.98]	1.96 [1.46; 2.64]	1.77 [1.30; 2.41]	1.40 [1.04; 1.89]	1.49 [1.11; 2.01]
Non-racialized first or second-generation immigrants	0.95 [0.84; 1.09]	1.11 [0.93; 1.32]	0.95 [0.79; 1.14]	1.21 [0.98; 1.49]	1.05 [0.88; 1.25]	1.13 [0.92; 1.38]
Perceived health status
Very good (ref)	1	1	1	1	1	1
Good	0.90 [0.80; 1.01]	1.13 [0.96; 1.33]	1.17 [0.95; 1.43]	1.08 [0.85; 1.37]	1.15 [0.95; 1.39]	1.65 [1.30; 2.09]
Fair	0.96 [0.84; 1.09]	1.17 [0.98; 1.40]	1.82 [1.48; 2.23]	1.67 [1.31; 2.12]	1.78 [1.46; 2.16]	2.16 [1.70; 2.75]
Bad to very bad	0.81 [0.66; 1.00]	1.63 [1.28; 2.09]	4.66 [3.60; 6.02]	5.53 [4.18; 7.31]	2.65 [2.04; 3.45]	3.62 [2.70; 4.87]
Date of questionnaire
02/05-10/05			1	1
11/05-17/05			0.79 [0.69; 0.90]	0.88 [0.74; 1.03]
18/05-01/06			0.39 [0.33; 0.46]	0.45 [0.37; 0.55]

Notes: N = 21.543, aOR = adjusted odd ratio, significant associations are indicated in bold.