Table 2.

Distribution of mediators and exposure grouped by level of self-rated health of respondents to the Canadian Community Health Survey, 2011–2016

Variable	Mood and/or anxiety disorder			Sense of community belonging			Food Insecurity			Access to a regular medical doctor
	No	Yes	p-value	Strong	Weak	p-value	Not food insecure	Food insecure	p-value	Yes	No	p-value
2011			<0.001			<0.001			<0.001			0.222
Excellent/very good	67.6	39.8		68.3	58.4		66.4	43.2		64.3	64.9
Good	26.0	34.6		24.9	30.2		26.6	31.2		26.8	27.6
Poor/fair	6.4	25.6		6.8	11.3		7.0	25.6		8.9	7.5
2012			<0.001			<0.001			<0.001			0.014
Excellent/very good	67.6	37.5		67.0	59.5		66.7	39.5		64.0	65.1
Good	26.4	37.7		26.6	29.3		26.9	35.0		27.5	28.5
Poor/fair	6.0	24.7		6.3	11.1		6.4	25.5		8.6	6.4
2013			<0.001			<0.001			<0.001			0.347
Excellent/very good	66.6	38.4		66.9	57.9		65.5	40.9		63.1	64.4
Good	27.7	33.9		26.6	31.2		28.0	33.0		28.4	28.2
Poor/fair	5.7	27.7		6.5	11.0		6.6	26.2		8.4	7.4
2014			<0.001			<0.001			<0.001			0.440
Excellent/very good	66.8	36.0		67.0	56.7		65.2	39.7		63.2	62.5
Good	26.7	38.1		26.1	31.2		27.3	35.7		27.8	29.3
Poor/fair	6.5	25.9		6.8	12.2		7.4	24.6		9.0	8.2
2015			<0.001			<0.001			<0.001			<0.001
Excellent/very good	71.0	39.7		70.6	61.4		69.4	44.9		66.2	69.9
Good	24.1	36.4		23.9	28.7		24.8	34.1		26.0	24.5
Poor/fair	4.9	23.9		5.6	10.0		5.8	21.1		7.8	5.5
2016			<0.001			<0.001			<0.001			<0.001
Excellent/very good	70.5	36.6		69.3	60.0		68.5	40.0		65.1	68.8
Good	24.5	37.7		24.8	28.9		25.3	36.3		26.4	25.7
Poor/fair	5.0	25.7		5.9	11.1		6.2	23.7		8.5	5.5

Note: Chi-squared tests were applied to test for statistically significant differences for each year. There were no multiple comparisons in this table; and thus, no Bonferroni correction was applied to these p-values. Rows sum to 100%